Control creation in project planning
Communication is essential in order to scrutinize growth, to obtain early caution of risk, to support support, to inspire through team participation. All of these depends upon your communication. Regular reports are invaluable - if you clearly define what information is needed and if teach your team how to provided it in a rapidly accessible form. Often these reports merely say “progressing according to schedule”. These you send back, for while the message is desired the evidence is missing: you need to insist that your team monitor their own progress with concrete, tangible, measurements and if this is done, the figures should be included in the report. However, the real value of this practice comes when progress is not according to schedule - then your communication system is worth all the effort you invested in its planning. And communication is everything.
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