Progress
Red, amber, green. While there is still time to do something.
Define the steps a member should pass through and the pace they should pass through them, and Progress flags anyone falling behind. This is the GPS system, and it is the part of RPM that changes outcomes rather than describing them.
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How the GPS works
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You define the journey once. It runs against every member continuously.
Any sequence
What can be tracked
- Onboarding, step by step
- Learning paths and course sequences
- Coaching programs and their milestones
- Challenges and their checkpoints
- Any process you can break into stages
What turns green into amber
Defining pace
- Expected time between each step
- Different pace per cohort, tier, or track
- Grace windows before a state changes
- Absolute deadlines where they genuinely apply
What each means
The three states
- Green: on track, moving at or ahead of pace
- Amber: slipping, behind pace but still moving
- Red: stalled, no progress and past the threshold
Routing the flag
Who gets told
- You, as owner
- The coach or faculty member assigned
- The member themselves, framed carefully
- Their team or cohort leader
- A Flow, which can act without anyone reading it
Who sees what
Views
- Member: their own position in the journey
- Coach: their roster sorted by who needs attention
- Cohort leader: the group as a whole
- Owner: every journey on the platform at once
Worked example
Cohort 12, onboarding, day nine
Fifty-three members. The dashboard sorts them into three groups and tells three different people about it.
GPS: Cohort 12 onboarding
Six steps, expected pace 2 days each
unify
Fifty-three members, six steps, one view
Pulled from LMS, events, and gamification data at once.
Green
41 on or ahead of pace
No action taken. The most common mistake in this whole system is intervening on people who are fine.
Amber
9 slipping, no activity for six days
Still inside the journey, just slowing. This is the group where a message actually changes the outcome.
Red
3 stalled at step two since day three
Coach notified by name, with the specific step each one is stuck on.
act
Amber gets a nudge, red gets a human
The nudge fires from a Flow with no guilt language and one next step. Red goes to a person, because automation has already failed there.
Recipes
Three you could build this afternoon.
Catch the fade at week four
When
Only if
Then
Escalate a genuine stall
When
Only if
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Stay quiet on the new ones
When
Only if
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Before you build
Three things worth knowing.
Note
Amber needs an owner. An early warning nobody is responsible for acting on is a color on a screen.
Note
Set pace from what your good members actually do, not from what you wish they did. An aspirational pace turns everyone amber and the signal becomes noise.
Note
Be careful telling members their own state. Green is motivating, amber can be, and red almost never is.
The rest of rpm
Progress is one of 3 parts.
Reports
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