The progress summary record

Alongside the quarterly reports, the Institution provides a progress summary record — the rolling view of where you stand across all ten Core Objectives at once.

Its real value is that it shows the shape

A quarterly report tells you what happened in three months. The progress summary tells you something a quarterly report structurally cannot: which objectives you are not touching.

That is the question that matters, and it is invisible if you only ever look forward one quarter at a time. Most candidates discover late that four years of good work has produced deep evidence in four objectives, adequate evidence in four, and almost nothing in two — usually commercial and legal, and sustainability, because ordinary project work does not force them.

Looked at every quarter, that pattern is obvious within eighteen months, and eighteen months is enough time to do something about it.

How to use it in a mentor meeting

Bring it to every meeting and ask two questions:

1. 01Which objectives have not moved since last time?
2. 02What would move them, on the work available to me in the next six months?

That turns the record from an administrative artefact into the thing that shapes what you ask to be put on. It is the same question the gap analysis asks, and asking it early is the whole point.