debriefs
Questions after operations
Debriefs is the verb form of debrief, meaning to question someone systematically after a mission, project, or experience to extract useful information: The commander debriefs the pilots after every sortie.
A debrief is also a noun for the session itself.
The word originated in military intelligence but now applies broadly—athletes debrief after games, employees after conferences.
Gathering for discussion
- reviewCritical written assessment
- feedbackReturned response data
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- projectPlanned, effortful task
retrospective · lessons learned · stakeholders · performance · outcomes · postmortem · wrap-up · discussion
Purpose-driven task
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- operationProcess of working
- tacticalStrategically planned
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
reconnaissance · extraction · combat · personnel · command · objectives · casualties · threat assessment
Formal questioning session
- participantsThose actively involved
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- qualitativeRelating to characteristics, not quantities
- responsesAnswers or reactions
observations · findings · methodology · data collection · subjects · focus group · fieldwork · ethnographic
Lasting psychological wound
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- processingSystematic operation on data
- supportTo uphold or sustain
incident · crisis · stress · emotional · coping · intervention · survivors · responders
meeting
Gathering for discussion
project · retrospective · lessons learned · stakeholders · performance · outcomes · postmortem · wrap-up · discussion · managers
mission
Purpose-driven task
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- operationProcess of working
- tacticalStrategically planned
classified · reconnaissance · extraction · combat · personnel · command · objectives · casualties · threat assessment · after-action
interview
Formal questioning session
- participantsThose actively involved
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- qualitativeRelating to characteristics, not quantities
responses · observations · findings · methodology · data collection · subjects · focus group · fieldwork · ethnographic · investigator
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- processingSystematic operation on data
support · incident · crisis · stress · emotional · coping · intervention · survivors · responders · victims
- workplace collaborationmeetings, brainstorming, teamwork, delegation, presentations
- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, messages
- projectsproject, projects, tasks, milestones, deadlines
- reviewsreview, reviews, rating, ratings, critic
- teamworkteamwork, co-op mode, collaborate, team games, assists
- accountsbank account, checking account, savings account, joint account, personal account