Noticed · Day 3 / 7
Make your work impossible to miss.
Great work done quietly may as well not exist. Here's the fix.
Dana
Direct message
Dana Monday
(no message, Dana's been heads-down elsewhere all week)
It's Friday. Strong week on Atlas: data accuracy nailed, the thing Dana feared, dashboard on track. She hasn't asked. Most weeks you'd just carry on.
If she can't see the week you had, it may as well not have happened, and you'll feel unappreciated while she feels out of the loop. You both lose to the same silence.
You decide to send Dana your first weekly update. What do you write?
Your turn
Go deeper
A standing weekly update is “managing the information flow”, one of the pillars of a healthy boss relationship. Make it a rhythm, not a one-off, and it does the visibility work for you on autopilot.
Michael Watkins, “The First 90 Days”, on the expectations-and-updates conversation.
Next up. Day 4: how to say “I'm underwater” without looking weak.