Daily Update System
FrameworkThe Daily Update System is a framework where new hires send a 5-10 minute daily email covering what they accomplished, problems encountered, and questions they have. This simple practice reveals more about an employee's true patterns and performance in 30 days than people who have known them for years.
About Daily Update System
The Daily Update System is a framework where new hires send a 5-10 minute daily email covering what they accomplished, problems encountered, and questions they have. This simple practice reveals more about an employee's true patterns and performance in 30 days than people who have known them for years.
Eben used this system recently with great success, finding it reveals whether employees are results-driven versus activity-driven and provides clear documentation for performance conversations or termination decisions.
“if you will watch someone's daily updates every day for 30 days you will learn so much about them”
— Eben Paganon Teaching about employee evaluation and the power of consistent daily communication
Perspective
“You need months or years of working with someone to truly understand their work patterns and reliability”
30 days of daily updates reveals more about an employee's true patterns than years of casual observation
Evidence 6
Implement daily huddles where virtual teams connect each morning to align on daily objectives and maintain team cohesion
Eben's company uses daily huddles where every team gets together in the morning to say what everybody is doing that day,
From: Eben Pagan - Why We Fail With Money (\u0026 What To Do About It)at 2:04The Daily Update system requires new hires to send a 5-10 minute daily email covering three areas: what they accomplished, problems encountered, and questions they have
Eben Pagan used this system recently with great success. The email must contain: 1) what I did today and results I got,
From: Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Bransonat 0:31Watching daily updates for 30 days reveals more about an employee than people who have known them for years because you see their true patterns
The system reveals if they are results-driven vs activity-driven, whether they ask new questions, get curious, what they
From: Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Bransonat 1:05The most basic test of the Daily Update system is simply whether the employee sends it every day - consistency reveals accountability and communication style
After 30 days you might have received 12 updates, 6, or none. Underperforming employees usually don't send the update ev
From: Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Bransonat 1:36High performers who miss daily updates can be coached or given assistant support, but non-performers who also miss updates should be terminated
If someone is a superstar but didn't send daily updates, you can get them an assistant to send updates. But if they're n
From: Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Bransonat 2:07The Daily Update system provides clear documentation for termination conversations by focusing on the one consistent request that wasn't fulfilled
After 30 days you can tell underperformers: 'I asked you to do one thing consistently for 30 days - send me a daily upda
From: Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Bransonat 2:38Questions Answered
How do you evaluate new employees in the first 30 days
Use the Daily Update system where new hires send a 5-10 minute daily email covering what they accomplished, problems they faced, and questions they have. This reveals performance patterns and accountability levels within 30 days.
From: Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Branson
Evidence
Eben used this system recently with great success, finding it reveals whether employees are results-driven versus activity-driven and provides clear documentation for performance conversations or termination decisions.
Quotes
“if you will watch someone's daily updates every day for 30 days you will learn so much about them that people have known them for years don't even realize because you will see the pattern”
— Eben Pagan
Source Content 2
Eben Pagan Interviews Sir Richard Branson
Eben Pagan - Why We Fail With Money (\u0026 What To Do About It)