You want to keep after your disclosure process. You need to be mindful when you’re in the midst of it – panicking to meet the next deadline in your Time & Responsibility Schedule – that there might be small things that you can tweak for the next go-around.
It’s probably too late to make the change right now because you’re in the midst of it and the damage has been done. For example, a particular activity perhaps should have been allotted three days in the calendar instead of two. You’re late a day now and need to make that up. You can’t change that fact. But you can change it for next time when you give the team the three days.
Or maybe you forgot that the CEO might be traveling for a particularly key activity for which she is needed. Next time, you build in that caveat and have a contingency plan at the ready.
You want to do this every quarter. For every disclosure cycle. Incremental progress is fine. It doesn’t have to always be monumental. Every little bit adds up and can help.
So that as the years fly by, you’re building the best mousetrap you can. Which, at the end of the day, will make your life a whole lot smoother…and an improved and smooth process can only enhance transparency…
