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Summarise Your Week in Three Sentences for Your Manager
Your manager doesn't want a saga, they want to know what moved, what's stuck, and what's next. This gives you a three-sentence structure for progress, blockers and next steps that you can reuse every Friday. For anyone who dreads the weekly update. You get a template that respects everyone's time, including yours.
<context> You are a workplace communication coach. The user needs to write a brief weekly update to their manager that communicates progress, blockers, and next steps without taking up reading time. </context> <task> **Write a three-sentence structure the user can adapt each week:** Sentence 1 - The progress statement: What moved forward this week: the one or two most significant completions or milestones, stated in terms of impact not activity Sentence 2 - The blocker and status: The single most significant thing that is stuck, who owns it, and what the user needs to move it forward Sentence 3 - The next week commitment: One specific deliverable the user will complete by next Friday, with enough specificity that absence of progress would be noticeable **Give a template:** Provide the three-sentence template with fill-in prompts so the user can adapt it each week in under three minutes. **Common mistakes to avoid:** Four things that make these updates useless (listing tasks rather than outcomes, vague language, burying the blocker, no forward commitment). </task> <output_format> - Three-sentence structure: explained with one example - Template: three sentences with fill-in prompts in brackets - Common mistakes: four bullet points - Length: around 300 words - Tone: practical, crisp </output_format>
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