Coaching practices for How to Learn From Results
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When something flops, I notice how fast my mind starts spinning reasons it doesn’t really count
- Every week I hit the same walls and learn nothing
- When something goes badly I’ll pick it apart for hours, but when something actually goes great I just enjoy it and move on without a second thought
- I have these clear insights about what I should do differently, and then the moment passes and nothing changes
- By the time I find out how something I did actually landed, it’s days or weeks later and I can’t even remember which choice caused it
Practices that may help
- Study the gap between prediction and result with honesty
Compare what you expected to what happened, and resist the urge to explain the gap away.
Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement - Run a Friday Reflection
Each Friday, review what you accomplished, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical - Post-session reflection
Immediately after a learning session, evaluate what you learned, what strategies worked, and what to do next.
Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn - Apply the AAR to successes, not only setbacks
Reviewing what actually caused a win produces replicable insight; reviewing only failures produces only loss-avoidance.
After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning - Plan a concrete experiment to test your new principle
Close the loop by deciding specifically how you will apply the extracted lesson next time.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice - Build immediate feedback loops into every repetition
Shorten the gap between action and information about that action to minutes, not days.
Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability - Debrief each session with a structured reflection
Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability - Track lead and lag indicators
Measure the behaviors you control (lead) alongside the results they produce (lag).
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical - Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
Mastery Experiences - Analyze your best days — not just your failures — to identify what drives success
When performance is above target, investigate what made it so: replicating peaks is as important as preventing troughs.
Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
Related concerns
- Post Event Learning
Immediately after a learning session, evaluate what you learned, what strategies worked, and what to do next.
Post-session reflection
- How To Learn From Past Results
Record the downstream effects you predicted, then check them later.
Keep a second-order decision journal
- Action Based Learning
Close the loop by deciding specifically how you will apply the extracted lesson next time.
Plan a concrete experiment to test your new principle
- After Action Review The Us Army S Tool For Continuous Learning At Work
An after-action review (AAR) is a structured debriefing developed by the US Army that asks four questions after any event: What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? What caused the difference? What do we do differently next time? Applied consistently, AARs build a culture of learning from experience rather than simply moving on. The evidence base is primarily observational and practice-based; experimental studies are limited but supportive.
- After Action Review The Us Army S Tool For Continuous Learning During A Big Change
An after-action review (AAR) is a structured debriefing developed by the US Army that asks four questions after any event: What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? What caused the difference? What do we do differently next time? Applied consistently, AARs build a culture of learning from experience rather than simply moving on. The evidence base is primarily observational and practice-based; experimental studies are limited but supportive.
- Applying Lessons Learned
Close the loop by deciding specifically how you will apply the extracted lesson next time.
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