Your personal development coach

Learn by Looking Back

When projects move to a next stage or close, the best teams review what they learned. The SMART Inside team does more.

Guide the team to follow the Turn Past Experience into Learning advice in Connect the Dots (App Section 2) Answering three questions will help the team do this.

  • What did the team as a whole learn?
  • What are the performance lessons that the team can document and carry forward to similar projects? (what you would do over again; what you would not do; what you would do better, add or change)
  • What are the lessons learned about team process and mutual support. (what you would do over again; what you would not do; what you would do better, add or change)
  • What did each individual learn during the process?
  • How did individual team members help others learn.

Appreciate the team and members.

  • Have a meeting where you appreciate and acknowledge team members’ performance, development, and peer support contributions.

Decide if and how to contribute to the larger enterprise or group and thus help create a true Learning Enterprise

  • Identify who might benefit now of in the future from what your team learned?
  • How will you document your learning? Consider via memos, videos, a case study or simulation, etc.
  • How will you share your accomplishments, insights, lessons, and appreciations? (with other groups, with leaders, with the entire organization or division, with family and friends.)