Reporting Progress
Demonstrating Progress towards Goals and Objectives
While the formal progress reporting process is generally the venue for communicating to stakeholders and leadership, sharing the plan’s ongoing progress is critical within your organization.
Strategy assignments and progress updates
While some planning efforts only reflect on assignment completion and change for official progress reporting, consider creating a space where progress can be reported on in real time. This may allow you to be proactive about necessary plan adjustments.
Celebrate early wins
Regular updates on progress
This is the reason you took the time to create the communication plan in the first place! Have your communications queued up on a regular schedule. If there is an established progress tracking mechanism, consider linking access to it as part of your communications plan.
Transparency is key
Return to your Vision
The organization’s vision statement is likely the source of the goals you drew up for your plan, as it is intended to be aspirational. Weave the language of the vision throughout your communications.
Collect ideas (and give credit)
Throughout the process, you or your colleagues may brainstorm other ideas for strategic initiatives, projects, or other improvements you can set up. Create a system to collect and compile these ideas and see if they can be worked into your existing plan and be sure to mention where these promising ideas came from! (Also, please share them with OPAIR for our future work.)
Official Progress Reporting
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