Here is one of our old reports

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List of completed works
The list of completed works for the previous period also raises many questions, from “what kind of term is this?” to “why are there so few works?”

By the way, we found a cool answer to the second question, which immediately dots all the i's and crosses the t's - to write down the hours that we plan to spend on the task even when planning. But more on that later.

You can keep a list of completed works in a table, in Google Docs, or anywhere. It doesn't change the essence of the matter. Although, it is more convenient for us in a table, example.


Acceptance of work report
Acceptance of work report
Agree, it is not very informative. A person who does not understand the intricacies of promotion will not understand even half of why all this is necessary. We had to add a exploring the social and economic impact of chinese canadians in canada column:

Extended report
Extended report
In this column we write notes for ourselves and the client. If there is a need to explain something, we do it. And we also write the result where necessary.

The next step was to add the number of hours spent and checkboxes to the report to make it easier to distinguish between completed tasks and planned ones:

Final look
Final look
Thus, the client could always see what we were doing, why we were doing it, and what we had already done. This saved us from unnecessary daily questions like "What are you doing?", the client got a sense of control over the process, and everything became more transparent overall.

Try to describe all the work done in as much detail as possible. This benefits both you and the client.