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A guide for mentees: After-Action Review for Mentees

What the After-Action Review is, how to fill it in and what happens next.

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What this guide covers

What it is

Look back at one event

You compare what you expected with what happened, then decide what to keep and change.

Which event? Friday’s team demo

What did you expect to happen? Show the new report in ten minutes. What actually happened? The demo data failed and it took twenty-five.

Why was there a difference? I tested on my laptop, not the shared screen.

What will you keep doing? ✓Starting with the problem it solves.✓Short slides with one number each.

What will you do differently? ↻Test on the room setup the day before.

Why it helps

Short reviews help you improve

In a review of 46 studies, structured debriefs led to about 25% better later performance.

Right after while you still remember
Causes, not blame why it went the way it did
Keep and change what went well counts too

Filling it in

Ten minutes, three steps

Name the event and the plan, say what happened and why, then list keep and change.

The event and the plan

What you expected to happen, briefly.

What happened and why

Facts first, then causes, not someone to blame.

Keep and change

Up to five of each.

The event and the plan

What you expected to happen, briefly.

Which event? Friday’s team demo

What did you expect to happen? Show the new report in ten minutes. What actually happened? The demo data failed and it took twenty-five.

Why was there a difference? I tested on my laptop, not the shared screen.

What will you keep doing? ✓Starting with the problem it solves.✓Short slides with one number each.

What will you do differently? ↻Test on the room setup the day before.

What happened and why

Facts first, then causes, not someone to blame.

Which event? Friday’s team demo

What did you expect to happen? Show the new report in ten minutes. What actually happened? The demo data failed and it took twenty-five.

Why was there a difference? I tested on my laptop, not the shared screen.

What will you keep doing? ✓Starting with the problem it solves.✓Short slides with one number each.

What will you do differently? ↻Test on the room setup the day before.

Keep and change

Up to five of each.

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Every step is filled in. Send answers

1The event and the plan

Which event? Friday’s team demo

What did you expect to happen? Show the new report in ten minutes. What actually happened? The demo data failed and it took twenty-five.

Why was there a difference? I tested on my laptop, not the shared screen.

What will you keep doing? ✓Starting with the problem it solves.✓Short slides with one number each.

What will you do differently? ↻Test on the room setup the day before.

2What happened and why

Which event? Friday’s team demo

What did you expect to happen? Show the new report in ten minutes. What actually happened? The demo data failed and it took twenty-five.

Why was there a difference? I tested on my laptop, not the shared screen.

What will you keep doing? ✓Starting with the problem it solves.✓Short slides with one number each.

What will you do differently? ↻Test on the room setup the day before.

3Keep and change

After-Action ReviewSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

On Mentornity

Find it, fill it in, send it

Your mentor’s tool waits on your home page until you send it.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Write what happened and one change before you send.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Tools to fill in (1)

After-Action ReviewFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

After-Action ReviewSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

Check, then send

Write what happened and one change before you send.

After-Action ReviewSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

1Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in (1)

After-Action ReviewFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

2Stop whenever you like

After-Action ReviewSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

3Check, then send

After-Action ReviewSaved

Step 1 of 2

PreviousNext

Before you send

Every step is filled in. Send answers

What happens next

You talk it through together

Your mentor reads your answers and you talk them through at your next meeting.

Only you two program admins do not see the answers
Comments on any part of it
Keep and change your mentor sees them counted
Still editable change answers after sending

Review it while it is fresh

Ten minutes is enough, and what went well counts too.

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