The project is delayed. How do you report it?
Explain progress, risks, evidence, and requests. Prepare a conversation with concrete material.
See the example and steps →THINKING & REPORTING AT WORK
Think it through. Get it across.
Use frameworks to analyze problems and compare options. Explain progress, risks, and requests. Start with a work problem, follow an example, and take a useful outline or calculation into your work.
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Explore practical guides →Each option has strengths. How do you choose?
Explain constraints, evidence, and tradeoffs. Leave a decision that can be reviewed.
See the example and steps →A metric improved. How do you describe it?
Check counts, rates, and distributions. Choose charts and wording that answer the question.
See the example and steps →New users stop returning. What should you check?
Start with observations and records. Define the problem, examine possible causes, and identify missing evidence.
See the example and steps →You have a SWOT. What comes next?
Turn analysis into possible actions, small tests, and a next review.
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Find skills and outlines for preparation, spoken and written updates, reviews, data, and difficult situations.
Explore reporting skills →From thinking it through to getting it across
Clarify limits → compare options → keep open questions → make a request.
See how a decision question becomes a request
Fictional supplier exercise: the budget cap is CNY 20,000. A/B cost CNY 12,000/18,000; C costs CNY 26,000 and is excluded first. Changing quality weight from 40% to 60% changes A/B scores from 4.2/3.8 to 3.8/4.2. No supplier has been chosen.
Please confirm whether the additional quality requirements justify more cost and waiting, then arrange the same trial to check both scores. An owner, response deadline, and trial arrangements still need to be specified.
Understand the comparison →Make the request specific →Read the one-page decision brief guide →
From an example to your own material
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Why late requests can increase while average elapsed time falls
Paste two-period elapsed times, check the mean, median and late counts, and retain missing/open records and limits in your report.
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How to request support with clear effort and alternatives
Reconcile existing effort, the additional request, and the total; compare feasible alternatives and prepare a complete request with checks, stopping conditions, and approval status.
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