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My boss in Denver said my weekly report was 'all facts no story' so I added one sentence about what actually happened and now people read it
I used to just list numbers and dates, but after she said that I started ending each update with one line about the real problem or win from last Tuesday, and my whole team finally stops asking me what things mean, has anyone else found their reports get read more when they add context like that?
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hollyg5921d ago
That one-line context thing works way better than people expect. Had a boss who told me the same thing years ago and I started putting a short "so what" sentence at the top of every update, like "we missed the deadline because the vendor sent the wrong part and we're waiting on a replacement." Suddenly nobody was emailing me asking for basic details because the point was right there. The trick is keeping it to one or two lines so it doesn't turn into a novel nobody reads. Do it long enough and people start trusting your updates without having to dig through the numbers themselves.
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