3 Ways to Create Visibility Around Your Work Wins

When teams don't share their wins, valuable knowledge often stays siloed within departments.

How can you create a system to document and distribute lessons learned from your successes?

At ClickUp, highlighting wins is as routine as updating our project boards. This practice reflects our core values of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

The tactics shared in this playbook, drawn from ClickUp leaders, offer practical ways to strengthen win-sharing in any organization.

You'll learn:

• 3 key indicators for selecting recognition-worthy achievements from Trish Sanderson, Head of Community at ClickUp
• How to communicate technical wins for different work audiences from Jeremy Galante, SEO Director at ClickUp
• The framework to track, record, and distribute team wins from Sarah Gold, Operations Manager at ClickUp

The first tactic is to be strategic with what wins you share. It's best not to overwhelm others with notifications for every success. Instead, set key indicators, or signals, for wins that truly matter to the broader organization.

To make your win updates more compelling and informative, Trish recommends these key ingredients:

• Accreditation: Directly tag contributors and those who removed obstacles
• Team branding: Highlight your team in a memorable way
• Bulletproof metrics: Provide solid, actionable numbers

You've found a significant win worth sharing. The next step is to communicate it effectively across various departments.

Not everyone in your organization speaks your team's "language." Especially in specialized fields like SEO, where even closely related teams like Content may only have a basic grasp of the work involved.

To increase the value and clarity of your communication, keep these points in mind:

• Include links to detailed resources for further exploration
• Add visuals to clarify complex ideas or lend credibility
• Provide context for significant metrics or sentiments
• Use general language instead of specialized terms

Third-party chat tools are great for immediate news but make it hard to revisit past learnings and wins. Information gets buried in daily chatter, preventing team members from quickly finding and acting on updates.

A better way is to use a weekly reporting framework that consolidates different department updates into a single, accessible recap.

When deciding what to include in the weekly recap, Sarah suggests focusing on:

• Key projects receiving close leadership attention
• Knowledge benefiting the wider organization
• Learnings impacting pillar KPIs

While the three tactics focus on sharing major achievements, it's also important to recognize and leverage quick wins. These smaller victories can build momentum and set the stage for bigger successes.

To kickstart your win-sharing initiative and build credibility, consider these two approaches for impactful results:

Sharing work wins is central to highlighting contributions and spreading best practices company-wide.

You can easily make this a regular practice using these three tactics:

• Establish clear standards for what defines a win worth celebrating company-wide
• Adapt your content to fit different work audiences' interests and expertise levels
• Use a consistent format to share information, helping others understand and act on your team's progress and insights

Remember, when your team wins, your entire organization wins.

How will you use these tactics to build upon wins and drive ongoing progress?