Benefits for Executives
The Status Reporting Tool allows you to take the pulse of your organization on a regular basis by reaching deep into your organization and eliciting facts without disruption. Stakeholders and customers demand action and the Executive Team will be held accountable. To deliver on these expectations, you must communicate the desires and expectations to your entire organization, not just your Senior Managers.As you communicate the expectations, you set forth the actions that you expect of your Senior Management. How often have you wanted to walk the floor to check on progress, morale, or implementation but not had the time? Now you can get the information you need when you need it without disrupting your own schedule. First-hand is certainly the preferred means, but you have your own responsibilities.
Using the Status Reporting Tool, you can reach down to any level of the organization verifying that what you expect to be happening is in fact being carried out as you expect. The Status Reporting tool can help you look at avenues to streamline communications without adding an additional burden to the workforce. Collect, preserve, search and report on those items that are of interest to you using the Status Reporting Tool. You define what will reported and how frequently. The Status Reporting Tool does the rest. The workforce needs only to open a browser to record their progress according to your need-to-know. Simple, fast, effect data collection.This PowerPoint demonstrates how effectively the Status Reporting Tool can be used to maximize efficiencies within an organization: Benefits for Executives PowerPoint
Benefits for Human Resources
The Status Reporting Tool is an effective means of increasing proper communications in an organization. Employed correctly, it can reduce “the noise”, clarify intentions, and promote effective, clear, open communication – up and down the chain. When it comes time to evaluate performance, it should not come as a shock to the employee. They should have a good awareness of what is expected of them. But business is dynamic and there can be circumstances that have an affect on an employee’s performance. Will you remember a year from now that the demands of a project shifted unexpectedly and two months of work was set-aside? Can your managers look back over twelve months of activity or are they limited to just those highlights they can remember – the most recent ones?
The Status Reporting Tool helps to establish the parameters by which the employee is expected to perform. By clearly communicating goals and expectations through the use of a reporting template, the Status Reporting Tool helps to clarify intentions and communicate expectations. The employee can document their work clearly and concisely, then report out an entire year’s report guaranteeing that all their work will be evaluated. Managers are more comfortable knowing that there is clear communication of expectations constantly reinforced through the reporting template and employees are excited to know that each year’s review will be conducted based on their entire year’s performance. This PowerPoint demonstrates the effectiveness of the Status Reporting Tool for Human Resources Professionals: Benefits for Human Resources PowerPoint
Benefits for Teams
Whether in the same room or geographically dispersed across continents, Teams can benefit tremendously from the Status Reporting Tool. Preserving and documenting decisions, opening lines of communication with senior management and streamlining the reporting out to stakeholders and customers, the Status Reporting Tool brings a wealth of value to Teams. The Status Reporting Tool does not try to be all things to all employees. It will not accelerate your project’s deadline but neither will it disrupt your team’s mission. It does not try to be a Microsoft Project, Excel Spreadsheet, ScrumWorks Pro, etc. It will help you by clearly communicating expectations and reporting out against that criteria, but it does so without imposing limitations, forcing you to adapt your ways to some new convention, or causing you to shoehorn yet another attempt at a “be all-end all” product into your already over tasked timetable. There’s nothing new to learn, but much to discover!
With the Status Reporting Tool, you’ll spot trends and weaknesses more readily. You’ll find diamonds in the rough and you’ll cut down on back-channel disruptions. Information will flow more freely and because it’s tailored to the needs of the organization, the information will be more meaningful and beneficial. This PowerPoint demonstrates the effectiveness of the Status Reporting Tool for Teams:Benefits for Teams PowerPoint
Benefits for Employees
The Status Reporting Tool benefits individual employees in many ways. Now you can have the complete details of your work when approaching your annual review. Not only can you track your progress relative to the needs of the organization as laid out in the reporting template you complete each reporting period, but every employee has the ability to define their own custom template which is appended to the end of the organization’s template. You can choose to keep this information private (only you see the data entry fields and reports) or you can share this information with the organization.
Because it’s browser based, the Status Reporting Tool gives you complete freedom in how, when and where you complete your report. When templates are properly created, they can streamline your reporting process and alleviate the problems of misinformation or downright bad information being reported to management. This PowerPoint will demonstrate how effectively the Status Reporting Tool can be for employees: Benefits for Employees PowerPoint
