35

After-Event Reviews: How to Structure Reflection Conversations

D. Scott DeRue

University of Michigan

c35-fig-5001

“We had the experience but missed the meaning.”

T.S. Eliot

REFLECTION IS QUITE possibly a manager's least favorite activity. With an orientation toward achievement and performance, many managers aspire to move forward, onward, and upward! As Bruch and Ghoshal (2002) describe in their description of life as an executive, “They rush from meeting to meeting, check their e-mail constantly, extinguish fire after fire, and make countless phone calls.” Yet, to learn from experience, people need to digest their experience by asking themselves, “What ...

Get Experience-Driven Leader Development: Models, Tools, Best Practices, and Advice for On-the-Job Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.