Jake Mazulewicz, Ph.D.
Jake
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL)

After Action Reviews Report

Audience Feedback on Apr 4, 2024

Attendee Responses

79

97% found this session valuable

93% would hear Jake speak again

Attendees found this session

Engaging

92%

Informative

92%

Practical

91%

Inspiring

91%



How attendees describe this talk

Quite motivational. Fire fighters and military type experience were interesting. It does require some thinking to apply to some of our research oriented project.

There is significant value in reviewing all aspects of jobs and not just the negatives or failures. Moving away from the current culture of focusing on blame.

Didn’t provide as much evidence of efficacy as claimed. Maybe an example would be helpful, it was very theoretical

Really useful tool. Would like to see more info on how to overcome lack of cultural support for the effort

Concise session of very valuable information and a tool to change the DNA of your team… for the good.

Concise introduction to an extremely valuable and proven continuous improvement technique.

Giving us tools to do it right the first time to ensure safety and mitigate risk.

A reminder that AARs are necessary for a strong functioning organization.

How After Action Reviews are used in successful organizations.


Feedback for Jake and the event

To management i would say, if you are serious about this let's create a charge number for AARs and allocate time and resources. How frequently should we do AARs? Once a year, month, week? Should we include regular AARs in project budgets and schedules?

Maybe explain current cultures or specific aspects of cultures that are counter to this and common ways to smooth the transition into this way of thinking. We have a very post game who to blame culture here.

Constructive feedback - When there is a combo meeting, in-person and zoom, all questions from the audience during the presentation should be repeated by the presenter, and then answered.

Another challenge for researchers is that we almost always get new type of project where the problem requires new or different solutions compared to the previous ones.

I believe the lab should hire Jake to do more meetings like this. I believe we have a lot to learn from him about camaraderie and team morale building.

Cultural adoption is the largest hurdle to implementation in any organization. Lessons learned in that area would be valuable.

Engaging personality and knowledgeable

Awesome helpful presentation

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