Google Doc
Intermediate
Weekly CEO Update
Standing weekly written update from the CEO to the leadership team — five sections, same shape every week.
When to use this
Comment-friendly Google Doc that the leadership team can read in 5 minutes and the CEO can write in 30. The same five sections every week make trend-watching easy.
What’s included
- 1. Headline of the week
- 2. What I'm watching
- 3. Where I spent time this week
- 4. Decisions made / changed
- 5. What I need from you
What to customise before you use it
- Replace Week commencing DD Mon YYYY with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace Metric / trend with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace Customer / market signal with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace Internal indicator with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace Big thing with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace Decision with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace Specific person/team with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace specific ask with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
- Replace when with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
The template
# Weekly CEO Update — [Week commencing DD Mon YYYY] ## 1. Headline of the week > One sentence. If you read nothing else, read this. ## 2. What I'm watching - [Metric / trend] - [Customer / market signal] - [Internal indicator] ## 3. Where I spent time this week - [Big thing] - [Big thing] - [Big thing] - (Anything to stop / start / continue based on the above?) ## 4. Decisions made / changed - [Decision] — why - [Decision] — why ## 5. What I need from you - [Specific person/team]: [specific ask], by [when]