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Daily Progress Checklist

This document contains a checklist for daily progress that includes sections for successes, setbacks, factors that enable progress (catalysts and nourishers), and factors that inhibit progress (inhibitors and toxins). It provides a framework for reflecting on events of the day and considering how to strengthen enabling factors and address hindering factors going forward to support meaningful work and positive team dynamics.

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Daily Progress Checklist

This document contains a checklist for daily progress that includes sections for successes, setbacks, factors that enable progress (catalysts and nourishers), and factors that inhibit progress (inhibitors and toxins). It provides a framework for reflecting on events of the day and considering how to strengthen enabling factors and address hindering factors going forward to support meaningful work and positive team dynamics.

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Daily Progress Checklist


Progress Setbacks
Briefly describe 1 or 2 events today that Briefly describe 1 or 2 events today that
indicated either a small win or a possible indicated a small setback or a possible crisis.
breakthrough.
Catalysts Inhibitors
 Did the team have clear short- and long-  Was there any confusion regarding long- or
term goals for meaningful work? short-term goals for meaningful work?
 Did team members have sufficient  Were team members overly constrained in
autonomy to solve problems and take their ability to solve problems and feel
ownership of the project? ownership of the project?
 Did they have all the resources they needed  Did they lack any of the resources they
to move forward efficiently? needed to move forward effectively?
 Did they have sufficient time to focus on  Did they lack sufficient time to focus on
meaningful work? meaningful work?
 Did I give or get them help when they  Did I or others fail to provide needed or
needed or requested it? Did I encourage requested help?
team members to help one another?
 Did I “punish” failure, or neglect to find
 Did I discuss lessons from today’s lessons and/or opportunities in problems
successes and problems with my team? and successes?
 Did I help ideas flow freely within the  Did I or others cut off the presentation or
group? debate of ideas prematurely?
Nourishers Toxins
 Did I show respect to team members by  Did I disrespect any team members by
recognizing their contributions to progress, failing to recognize their contributions to
attending to their ideas and treating them progress, not attending to their ideas, or not
as trusted professionals? treating them as trusted professionals?
 Did I encourage team members who faced  Did I discourage a member of the team in
difficult challenges? any way?
 Did I support team members who had a  Did I neglect a team member who had a
personal or professional problem? personal or professional problem?
 Is there a sense of personal and  Is there tension or antagonism among
professional affiliation and camaraderie members of the team or between team
within the team? members and me?
Inner work life
Did I see any indications of the quality of my subordinates’ inner work lives today?
 Perceptions of the work, team, management, firm
 Emotions
 Motivation
What specific events might have affected inner work life today?
Action Plan
What can I do tomorrow to strengthen the What can I do tomorrow to start eliminating the
catalysts and nourishers identified and provide inhibitors and toxins identified?
ones that are lacking?

From The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, by Teresa Amabile and Steven 
Kramer, Harvard Business Review Press, 2011, pp. 170‐171. 

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