When things are going well, just say so. Skip the lengthy recap of every activity. A simple statement that everything is okay and progress is normal is all stakeholders need to hear.
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How to update stakeholders, tip number 2. If everything is okay, say that. When we find ourselves in situations where we're giving status updates, whether it's in a meeting or an email or face-to-face, we can tend to try and fill the time. We want to demonstrate we're doing a lot of work, we want to talk about everything that's gone on. We also want to focus on problems, we tend to talk about the things that haven't gone well. But if everything is okay, say that. Not every status update needs to be long, not every status update needs to describe all the work that's been done each week. In fact, they shouldn't. So if you are giving a status update on a piece of work or a project and you're telling the stakeholders what is happening, if everything has gone okay, say that, and that is your status update.