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Hey, Jordan Harbinger here from the Art of Charm.
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Welcome to Minnesota Monday.
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Happy to be here with you, kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that ll make you more magnetic and effective.
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Today we re talking with Ryan Michler, who was just on the show recently.
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Ryan, you ve got the After Action Review.
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What is it, when do we use it, and how can we use it for ourselves?
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Yeah, so the After Action Review is something that I learned about in my time in the military service.
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As an 18-year-old, I joined the military when I was 18, and as an 18-year-old, a punk kid who knew it all,
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Frankly, I d roll my eyes and really didn t get that heavily into this until I realized that, oh, this actually works.
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Part of the problem in the military is we have a tendency sometimes to overcomplicate things and make it a little bit more difficult than it needs to be.
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But as I started to use this in my everyday, ordinary civilian life, I really saw huge leaps and bounds in the progress that I was making.
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and the goals that I was setting.
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So the After Action Review is very simply something that I do after every engagement, every conversation, every day, even after this podcast, I m gonna do an After Action Review.
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And it s a series of five questions that I ask myself after, again, every engagement that helps me measure what did I get done, what didn t I get done, where can I improve.
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So the five questions, if you want me to run through those real quick, I can do that right now.
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Yeah, let s do it.
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Right on.
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So the first question is, what did I get accomplished?
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So if I m in a conversation or I m on this podcast or at the end of the day, what is the thing that I got accomplished that I set out to accomplish?
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Number two, what did I not accomplish?
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Is there something that I tried to do or wanted to do or wanted to get done, get done in the beginning of the day that I wasn t able to complete?
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Number three is, what did I do well?
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And this is an opportunity for you to look at where you succeed, look at where you thrive.
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There might even be a set of skills that you have that you should really double down on.
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So I ask myself, where did I excel?
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Did I deliver the message clearly if we re using this podcast as an example?
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The fourth question is, what did I not do well?
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So where did I fall short?
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What can I improve?
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What are some of my weaknesses?
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And then the last question, this is probably the most important question, is what can I do better next time?
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So if I get done with having this conversation with you and I recognize that I feel like I was able to deliver the message clearly, but maybe I wasn t very articulate in the five step process, for example.
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All right.
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So if this opportunity presents itself in the future, how am I going to actually improve moving forward?
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So I hear a lot of guys talk about.
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I ve got my daily plan, I ve got my morning ritual and then I get into execution and I go throughout the day and they never recap anything they do with the review of that process so that they can actually improve moving forward.
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So this is why I ve decided to implement this after action review process outside of even just the military and I see huge leaps and bounds when it comes to my goal setting and the ability for me to get the job done.
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So are you putting this in a journal, and what type of events are you applying this to?
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Is this everything?
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Is this business mostly?
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Is it your personal life?
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How does it look?
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Yeah, so it s different for every engagement.
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If I m talking about, for example, the day, and part of this, and this is a whole other conversation for a later date,
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but part of this is having a very strategic and a clear plan coming into the day.
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Like what is it that I m trying to accomplish?
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If there was one thing I could get done, what s, what s that going to look like?
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How am I going to execute the day?
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And so at the end of the day, if I m doing my after action review for my daily planning, I m literally writing this down in a journal and it s answering those five questions every single day, which actually helps me formulate my plan for tomorrow so that I can be 1% better, you know, moving forward, which I think you just talked about recently in a podcast.
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So there s that.
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Now, if I, if it s something more informal, like this conversation that we re having, or even might be a conversation that I m having with my wife, because we plan out our conversations that we re going to have at least set time apart.
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It s not going to be formal.
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Like I m going to sit down and say, how was the conversation with my wife?
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What did I get accomplished?
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I m not going to do that, but I ve internalized these questions so much and use them formally in some of these business settings that it s just become second nature to say, okay,
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Where did this conversation, for example, and having with my wife go, well, where did it take a turn for the worst?
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We got into an argument the other night.
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Now I can barely simply go back and say, okay, what, where did it go wrong?
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And what am I going to do differently?
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So that when we have that conversation moving forward, it s not going to be that same result.
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We re actually going to get done whatever we want to get done.
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This makes sense.
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And frankly, for me, I ve run into this problem a lot where I like to think about achievement and moving forward.
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But what I realize is some of the best things that I ve learned about doing the show
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come from editing the show or listening to shows they ve already recorded instead of moving on to the next thing.
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So this after-action review can really be more illuminating than just continual practice.
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Not that you don t need to keep practicing, but if you re not examining your past performance, you re really leaving all of this data unexamined.
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Exactly.
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And part of the problem I think a lot of guys run into is they ll
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look at what they did, and most of the time they ll look at what they didn t do, like, oh, I didn t get the job done, or I didn t lose weight, or I didn t succeed in my diet, and they ll beat themselves up over it, and they ll use it as an excuse to retreat, and kind of cower in the corner and say, well, throw up my hands, that didn t work.
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This is not an opportunity for you to beat yourself up, it s just an opportunity for you to recognize where you fell short, and then start strategizing how because you fell short, now what do I do?
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What s the next move?
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So it keeps that movement going forward.
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Thanks so much to Ryan for that.
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Don t forget about the Art of Charm Challenge.
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It ll help you connect with others.
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It ll help you create more productive personal and business relationships.
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We re taking you step by step, and we ve got a Facebook group with thousands of other AOC family taking the challenge as well.
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Of course, AJ and I are in there with the rest of the AOC team, helping you all move through that.
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It s really cool for me to see the growth going on there.
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Text the word charmed, C-H-A-R-M-E-D, to 33444 here in the States, or go to theartofcharm.com slash challenge to get rocking.
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All right, everybody, have a great week.