In ‘The Art of the SBAR’ I share the Situation Background Assessment Recommendation (SBAR = “ess-bar”) to discuss issues with leaders. The SBAR can be documented in MS Word, PowerPoint or other tools. I prefer the one page PowerPoint table version. Key is to deliver the SBAR in a “short and sweet” format.
SBAR Guidance:
- (S)ituation:
- Why are we hear?
- Why am I reading this?
- (B)ackground
- What got us here?
- What contributed to me reading this?
- (A)ssessment
- What do you think happened?
- What do you know happened?
- (R)ecommendation
- How do you think we can resolve this?
- What changes do you think we should make?
You may use other tools to queue up decisions or to discuss resolution of issues, but I recommend giving the SBAR a try the next time you run into issues on your project or even to present an after action report (AAR) in short format.