How Do You Write A Status Report?
• Date the report: summary for the week of December 1. If this report will be an email, you can use this as the subject line. If the report will be a standalone document, place a header with this information on top. • Make sure your name and your group or project name is somewhere on the document or email so that your readers don’t have to guess where it came from or what it’s about. • Report the current status of your budget, if it is your responsibility. • Explain what has been accomplished during this reporting period (week, month, quarter, etc.). Use a heading such as “Accomplishments”, “Completed Tasks”, “Completed Action Items” or even simply “Done”. • Use active verbs to start the sentences: completed, defined, solved, designed, organized, improved, fixed, filed, to name a few examples. • List your or your team’s major accomplishments. For an individual, weekly report, three to six one-sentence bullet points may be enough. • In the next section, list things that you plan to do i
