If you and your team are not consistently updating your objectives, you are deprioritizing the importance of your strategic plan. If you’re not checking in on your most important initiatives, it will lead to time being spent on less important projects.

When getting Elate set up, your Elate admin decided on a check in cadence for your company's objectives. With this check in cadence, your team will automatically get reminded at a set cadence (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) to update their objectives.

If you use a tool like Slack or Microsoft Teams, connecting that tool to Elate will help your team receive regular reminders in platforms they are already communicating in every day.

In addition to these automated reminders, you will also see a yellow flag in Elate if an objective needs to be updated. This yellow flag helps alert your team members if an objective's status is out of date.

When your team understands what information is up to date or out of date, they will perform better. Up to date information will help your team make better decisions, allowing for easier cross functional collaboration.

Knowing what objectives are behind or at risk will help surface any potential blockers. This information can help determine if action is needed to remove blockers, if there are new constraints that need to be considered, or if more discussion is needed around a particular initiative.

Finally, knowing what is on pace will help your team celebrate wins together, and will create excitement around when goals have been hit.