Free Weekly Status Report Template PPT — Or Generate It Automatically Every Friday

• It covers only what changed — not everything that happened.
• It has a consistent format — recipients know where to look each week.
• It includes at least one risk or blocker.
• It ends with a specific ask or next step — not a summary, an action.
• The numbers are current — a status report with last week's metrics is a delay report.

1. This Week's Highlights — The 2 to 3 things that moved forward.
2. Key Metrics — The 3 to 5 numbers that define project health this week.
3. Blockers and Risks — What is slowing things down. Be specific.
4. Next Week's Priorities — Commitments, not intentions.
5. Decisions Needed — What you need from the recipient before next week.

Every Friday: open last week's deck, duplicate it, update the dates, open the project tracker, copy the metrics, update the numbers, check for copy-paste errors, adjust the formatting. The problem is not the format — the format works. The problem is that 45 minutes of that Friday process is pure data work.

Coreworks eliminates the data work while keeping the format consistent.

1. Connect your project data source to Coreworks.
2. Set your weekly report format once.
3. Every week, Coreworks generates the report automatically from live data. Review and send.