The executive summary
Stop boring your boss
Your boss doesn’t want to hear the status of every single task on your plate. And it doesn’t do you any good to subject them to that kind of non-consensual monologue either. It’s just a lot. You might as well have a red blinking sign on your forehead that says “IN THE WEEDS!!”
As you shift your communication style, you’ll get better at providing your executive summary and trimming down The Report from the Weeds. That’s the intermediate level of executive communication.
At the advanced level, you’ll leave out the weeds altogether unless they ask for it. “Let me know if you’d like to hear details” is a lovely phrase. It’s lovely to say and lovely for them to hear. Now you’re respecting their time, getting yourself out of the weeds and communicating like the corporate badass that you are.
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