“Debriefing is a simple skill that represents one of the most significant lessons learned in recent decades: organizations that fail to continuously revise their assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. market) will soon face obsolescence or irrelevance. A swiftly changing market can render limited professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight. Organizations must develop the capacity to learn from a changing environment by creating a formal learning structure that fosters agility and preserves knowledge”
As small business owners, we are responsible for our own learning and development.
When we don’t understand our own needs, we become subject to shiny object syndrome, overwhelm, and a lack of focus.
One way to get a better understanding of what you really need and want for your own evolution is to start doing CEO Debriefs on a regular basis.
This will allow you to have a more focused outlook on your business as a whole so you can set better goals for the future.
Establishing a CEO debrief habit in your business ensures that you:
Learn from mistakes
Builds up resilience against obsolescence
Make changes where needed to optimise your business
Spot warning signs or triggers early on that could affect your business
You can build in learning from changing environments to your processes
John Dewey, one of the fathers of functional psychology, laid the groundwork for learning and development in organizations.
In 1938, he was quoted as saying: “There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education”.
“There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education”.
When you do this your week follows the stages of experiential learning as follows:
Doing
Reflecting/Sharing
Processing/Analyzing
Generalizing
Applying what works and what doesn’t
Key Takeaways:
- A CEO Debrief is a critical tool for self coaching and self learning
It’s time you carve out in your week
Each time we debrief, we create actions based on real learning
A CEO Debrief helps us to build a learning structure that fosters agility and preserves knowledge.