The After Action
Review Specialists
Achieving powerful learning from lived experience Developing outstanding facilitators and trainers Enabling change for people and cultures
Achieving powerful learning
from lived experience
Developing outstanding
facilitators and trainers
Enabling change for
people and cultures
About After Action Review
After Action Review is the most researched and widely applied of the structured group debriefing tools used in the military, healthcare, safety critical industries and the business sector. The evidence and widespread usage, confirm the impressive results achieved in improving team performance and patient safety.
WHAT WE DO
We specialise in conducting AARs and in training others to do so successfully.
Our expertise in conducting AARs helps organisations get maximum learning from challenging events so they become assets for future growth.
We train groups of staff to be internal AAR Conductors who ensure continuous improvement becomes everyone’s business, and learning become a healthy habit that enables the organisation to flourish.
Within an NHS organisation, we will ensure you can meet the requirements of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) to provide a “proportionate and compassionate” learning response through the provision of psychologically safe and highly effective After Action Reviews.
WHO WE ARE
We are a consultancy developed out of our experience using the After Action Review approach to help teams learn from every day and exceptional experiences. Over the past 15 years we have facilitated hundreds of After Action Reviews (AARs) and Before Action Reviews (BARs) and trained well over 2000 people to be able to conduct successful AARs.
We have worked with multinational companies, acute hospitals, universities, political parties, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS England, GP practices and the World Health Organisation, experiencing first-hand, the incredible power of AAR to transform the quality of both conversations and the outcomes. We have seen for ourselves the dramatic light bulb moments when individuals in the AAR get to real clarity. We have seen teams start the AAR fragmented and divided after a challenging experience and move through the AAR to a unified understanding of the event and a collective plan of action for the future. We have witnessed how organisations that incorporate AAR into their regular practice become more psychologically safe, agile and productive.
Our mission is to ensure as many organisations as possible can benefit from this After Action Review “advantage”.
Further Information
The PSIRF Learning Response Tools Survey Summary Report
NHS England’s’ Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) plan has paved the way for a
After Action Review: Barriers and enablers to implementation
New research describes the barriers and enablers to implementation of AAR.
The wrong question in an AAR
The opening questions of the AAR should be framed around the expectations as articulated by
