Resources
Knowledge Stewardship International provides some resources that you are free to download and share within your organisation.
Note: These materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. You may copy, distribute, and display our resources and may make derivative works so long as you give proper attribution and that you do not use this work for commercial purposes.
Resources for After Action Review
The After Action Review (AAR) is a tool to help a team learn from their experiences in order to gain immediate, concrete improvements in performance. An “action” is any major or routine activity or event that a team of people undertakes, especially those events that they or other similar teams will likely repeat in the future.
Download our free AAR for Teams brochure (in English or in Spanish). It helps facilitators and team members remember the essential ground-rules, mindset, and steps of this effective – if simple – technique.
Case Study: Will We Learn from Experience is a case study I use in my training of AAR and of AAR Facilitators. It is a true story and does a nice job describing the AAR process and the challenges of getting results from it. Includes discussion questions.
Resources for Communication and Presentations
Creating Presentations that Matter is a 25 minute show describes the mindset and approach you need to create presentations that will enage and move people. What is unique about this approach is that the “slide deck” (the collection of slides) is put in its proper place – helping the audience to engage with the speaker and the content. Presentations that matter are composed of three elements:
- The speaker. The person who is giving the talk (and who should be the main deliverer of content)
- The slide deck. Well designed slides that provide what I call the “emotional wallpaper” that reinforces what the speaker is trying to communicate
- The handouts. The documents, workbooks, and other physical items that the participants use during the presentation and/or take away with them. Written in a readable way, you no longer need to (indeed should not) give out copies of your slide deck.
Here are the resources for Presentations that Matter:
