How to Effectively Check Team Progress and Remove Obstacles

How to effectively check your team's progress?

Your team is working on a really important project so it's important for you, of course, as a leader / manager to be able to check their progress.

1: It's important for you to be able to remove obstacles that come up and help them accelerate their results.

2: If they get off on doing something else other than focusing on this big project, you may want to get involved and help refocus them.

3: You may need to be able to update other people in the organization.

But how do you actually check their progress?

And the easy way to do that is to create a series of smart checkpoints.

These smart checkpoints may be one-on-one meetings or emails that you receive from them updating you on the progress or it could be periodic group meetings, if it's a really important one. But the key in this is make sure that the checkpoint is aligned with the value of the project.

In other words, you don't want to be meeting all the time on a really small project that doesn't deliver a lot of value for the organization, but if it's a big project with big value, you probably going to have a more of a steady cadence to check in on this.

So, how can you take your biggest project, your important project, and set up a checkpoint that makes sense for you and your team?