Two Best Practices For Weekly Reporting

Better weekly reporting can benefit both employees and leaders. Here are two reports that have stood the test of time.

Within an organization or team, every week has a large number of moving parts leaders and employees need to monitor. This is why most effective teams leverage weekly reports that help keep everyone up to date on the most important accomplishments, priorities and challenges the teams have worked through over the past week.

When I was leading a team, I asked each of my direct reports to fill out what was known as a 15-5 report. The 15-5 report was started by Yvon Chouinard at