After-Event Reviews: Drawing Lessons From Successful and Failed Experience
After-Event Reviews: Drawing Lessons From Successful and Failed Experience is a journal article by Shmuel Ellis, Inbar Davidi (2005), published in Journal of Applied Psychology. IX Coach's practice library cites it in 7 practices across 7 concepts; each one is listed below, so you can see exactly where this journal article is put to use.
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Practices on IX Coach that cite After-Event Reviews
- Run the four-question AAR within 24 hours of any significant event
What was planned? What happened? Why the gap? What next? — answered while memory is fresh.
After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning
- 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
- Debrief after each stressful encounter
Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
Stress Inoculation Training
- Review what happened after the event to refine the next cope ahead
Compare how you actually coped to your plan — the gap is your next training target.
Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations
- Run brief after-action reviews without blame
After any significant outcome — success or failure — ask four questions together as a team.
Psychological Safety in Teams
- Use structured debrief questions to guide any review
Replace "how did it go?" with specific questions that move through each stage of the cycle.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
- Spend more time on "what did not go well" than on what did
Failure analysis contains the most actionable information in any honest review.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
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