As the astute amongst you may have noticed I’ve stopped doing weekly reports. A lot has happened since then, I’m working again, we’ve been on a fab holiday, I’ve read a bunch of books and lots more besides. So you can look forward to some interesting updates over the coming weeks, as time permits. For now, I think an explanation about weekly reports is required.

When I published the Effectiveness Series all of the other ideas where tried and tested, the publishing of Weekly Reports was a new idea that, as I stated at the time, I was trying out.

Well I did try it out and while there is a lot to recommend it, I’ve decided against using to going forward. My reasons are thus…

• It didn’t increase my effectiveness. I thought publishing the weekly report would add some gravity to the weekly review and my progress towards my goals. It didn’t. I think that I’m accountable enough to myself and being accountable to nobody-in-particular by publishing didn’t really add anything.

Additionally…

• Some things that would have made nice little short blog posts ended up as line items in the report and then didn’t seem worth a post. So the net effective on blog content seemed negative.
• What I was working on didn’t really lend itself to weekly status updates to the wider world. Either through being personal, actually confidential or simply long timeline stuff that just wasn’t interesting at weekly level.
• I’m now working again and, sadly, that means progress on non-work activities will slow, making it even more difficult to have something meaningful to talk about on a weekly basis.
• While I did get comments, mails and calls in response to the weekly reports, the interactivity doesn’t add enough to really make it worth doing.

So there you go.