As the Christmas holiday approaches, I enjoy ticking things off my list of the “essentials” and if I get these sorted, I might get on to the “desirables” list too. What makes up this list of “essentials” will vary every year but one consistent element since I became...

Laughter is not often something you would expect to hear at a conference about Patient Safety but it was an uncomfortable type of laughter, not genuine mirth. It happened last month when I was at the Patient Safety Learning Conference in London and Professor Ted...

Despite all the research evidence in support of After Action Review (AAR), we sometimes find that people don’t see why holding AARs might be useful in their organisation. This lack of understanding isn’t about AAR itself, but much more about an innate cognitive bias....

What connects After Action Review and the teaching of Fredrich Froebel, the man who coined the term “Kindergarten”?  The end of the summer is an important time for many families as A level results arrive and young people begin the next stage of life at university or...