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Leadership prompts
Feedback, 1:1s, team decisions, the conversation you're avoiding.
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- work Prepare for a Difficult Work Conversation
Walk into a difficult conversation knowing your goal, your opening, and your limit.
- work Summarise Competing Stakeholder Priorities Before a Decision
Map what everyone actually wants before a decision that cannot please everyone.
- work Plan a Performance Conversation That Does Not Go Off the Rails
Get a complete framework for the performance conversation you have been putting off.
- work Summarise Where a Project Actually Stands
Write a honest project status update in under 200 words.
- work Write Structured Feedback for Someone Who Needs to Hear Hard Things
Write feedback honest enough to actually cause change.
- work Handle a Passive-Aggressive Colleague
Deal with a passive-aggressive colleague without making it worse or ignoring it.
- work Run an Effective One-to-One Meeting
Run one-to-one meetings that are actually useful rather than just regular.
- work Build a Sprint Retrospective That Actually Changes Things
Run a retrospective that produces one action the team actually completes.
- self Build Self-Advocacy Skills at Work
Stop doing great work that no one notices and start making sure they do.
- work Give Feedback to a Peer Without Damaging the Relationship
Give a peer honest feedback without turning it into an incident.
- work Write a Job Description That Attracts the Right Applicants
Write a job description that brings in candidates who can actually do the job.
- work Manage Up When Your Manager Is Stretched Thin
Get what you need from a manager who is never available.
- work Prepare a New Starter for Remote Work
Bring someone new into a remote team so they actually feel part of it.
- work Delegate Work Without Creating a Bottleneck
Hand over a task properly so you do not end up doing it twice.
- work Run a Postmortem That Teams Want to Attend
Design a postmortem session your team will actually learn from.
- work Reframe a Difficult Feedback Session You Are Dreading Giving
Reframe the feedback conversation you have been putting off so you can actually give it.
- work Critique Your Own Management Style Against What the Team Actually Needs
Find out whether your management style actually fits what your team needs right now.
- work Reframe an Adversarial Relationship at Work
Change the dynamic in a difficult work relationship without waiting for the other person to go first.
- work Critique a Team Meeting Format That Nobody Enjoys
Fix the team meeting that runs every week and makes everyone slightly worse at their jobs.
- work Compare Two Candidates for a Key Role
Compare two final candidates fairly by separating evidence from instinct.
- work Critique Your Company's Onboarding Process
Find the gaps in your onboarding process before another new hire quietly checks out.
- work Generate a Risk Register for a New Project
Build a working risk register that identifies and prioritises the risks before they materialise.
- work Plan a Difficult Conversation With a Colleague or Direct Report
Prepare a difficult conversation so it achieves the outcome rather than just releasing the tension.
- work Explain the Strategic Rationale for a Difficult Organisational Decision
Explain a hard organisational decision in a way that builds trust rather than eroding it.