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The Science of Climate Change

Climate change is no longer a distant threat or just a possibility, it is now a reality for all of us. In this pathway, Kevin Trenberth, a renowned climatologist, delves into the science behind climate change. He first introduces the climate system, its main components and forces.

Tackling the Plastic Crisis

Plastic pollution is by far the biggest threat to our oceans and this remains an incredibly tough problem to solve. Plastic credits could potentially serve as one of the much needed solutions for this crisis.

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The Scale of the Net Zero Challenge

The price of meeting net zero is estimated to be between $100-150 trillion over the next 30 years. Regardless of this cost, we need to reach net zero before climate change does irreversible damage to the environment and the economy.

ESG, Sustainability and Impact Jargon Buster

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Climate change is no longer a distant threat or just a possibility, it is now a reality for all of us. In this pathway, Kevin Trenberth, a renowned climatologist, delves into the science behind climate change. He first introduces the climate system, its main components and forces.

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Enhancing Team Performance through Debriefing

Enhancing Team Performance through Debriefing

Mandy Hickson

25 years: Ex-RAF pilot & leadership expert

In this video, Mandy talks about the 3 key areas leaders should focus on to build a world class team. She talks about how performance quality is defined by the execution of a well thought out plan. And then goes on to explain how performance and planning must constantly be reviewed in a debrief to achieve optimal results.

In this video, Mandy talks about the 3 key areas leaders should focus on to build a world class team. She talks about how performance quality is defined by the execution of a well thought out plan. And then goes on to explain how performance and planning must constantly be reviewed in a debrief to achieve optimal results.

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Enhancing Team Performance through Debriefing

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Overview

Debriefing is a simple, straightforward, powerful tool that you can save significant time and effort in the long-run by preventing execution errors - while getting stronger, smarter and faster than your competition. By learning from your successes and failures through debriefing, you can rapidly improve your team’s performance.

Key learning objectives:

  • Define debriefing, and understand why it is important

  • Outline the three key tips for debriefs

  • Outline the five hallmarks of effective debriefing

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Summary

What is debriefing?

When you evaluate your own and your own team;s performance, whether you met your goals or not. You can identify and pinpoint how you can make changes to improve moving forward. The debrief is a critical aspect of achieving success.

What are some questions to consider when evaluating a successful debrief?

  • What was the tone of the debrief?
  • Who ran it? Was it a boss, a senior member of the team. Was there a steep hierarchical gradient? How did that make you feel? Did they empower you to speak up?
  • What was the structure? Was there a structure?
  • What were the problems encountered?

Why is debriefing important?

In business, debriefing empowers professionals and teams to strengthen relationships, manage risk, achieve high performance and meet objectives. Perhaps most importantly, it helps us overcome fear and uncertainty.

What are three key tips for debriefs?

  1. Target your reviews - Don’t debrief everything, there simply isn’t time. Review what’s most valuable or repeatable events
  2. Discourage people from talking in pairs - These lessons need to be heard at group-level so the whole team can learn, not just the individuals
  3. Nurture the ability and environment for people to objective - When in the middle of a situation and error, our natural response is to be defensive or see your performance through a biased lens. However, a valuable skill in a high performing team is the ability to objectively analyse your performance

What should a debrief consist of?

  • Assessing what went right and what went wrong on a project
  • Working out any mistakes
  • Identifying lessons learned

What are the five hallmarks of effective debriefing?

  1. Why does debriefing accomplish all of this? - The act of debriefing helps us to cultivate a growth mindset, or the ability to view failure as a learning opportunity, and overcome our failures.
  2. When to do one? - It's vital to debrief immediately after a project’s conclusion to assess how the previous phases went and identify the key takeaways.
  3. Who should run the debrief? - Ideally it should be someone with experience of facilitating. It should not be the most senior person in the room
  4. How to conduct a debrief with your team? - It’s most important to set the right tone at the start of the debrief. It should be emphasised that is a psychologically safe environment and everyone should feel empowered to speak up. For example, you could include statements such as: this is a safe environment and there is no hierarchy
  5. What should a debrief cover?

Identify the scope and objectives. The first thing we need to do is to establish the facts: What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? Secondly, understand the cause: This needs the use of facilitated questions, Why did it happen? What, where, when, why, how, etc. Then lastly - the cure. Each of the 3 or 4 elements will have a cure and then an action to take forward. How can I incorporate that lesson into execution next time?

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Mandy Hickson

Mandy Hickson

Mandy Hickson was one of the first female fighter pilots in the Royal Air Force having joined in 1994. Mandy has over 25 years experience within aviation, operating in hostile environments, including patrolling the ‘No Fly’ zone, flying over 50 combat missions over Iraq. Drawing on her experience of calculated risk-taking, leadership, decision-making under pressure and the critical role of the human in the system, Mandy now transfers these lessons from the cockpit to many other management and leadership contexts.

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