The institute for Leadership and Management advocates Critical reflection. It means to contemplate with evaluation, through questioning and examining knowledge, beliefs and possible changes that need to be made. You think about your practice, for example in the workplace, and ask yourself probing questions about what has happened in the past, and/or what is happening now, about what worked well, and what did not work well. You are then able to draw conclusions and learn lessons about what might happen in the future, and how you might need to respond