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Leadership prompts
Feedback, 1:1s, team decisions, the conversation you're avoiding.
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- work Generate a Job Posting That Attracts the Right Candidates
Write a job posting that tells the right people to apply and signals clearly to the wrong people not to.
- work Critique a Project You Are Midway Through
Find the risks in your project while there is still time to do something about them.
- work Plan a Project Kickoff Meeting That Gets Everyone Aligned
Design a kickoff meeting that produces actual alignment rather than a slide deck no one reads.
- work Critique Your Team's Meeting Culture
Diagnose what is wrong with your team's meeting culture and what to fix first.
- work Reframe a Conflict at Work as Information
Extract the useful information from a workplace conflict rather than just trying to win it.
- work Translate Feedback From Your Manager Into Actionable Change
Extract the actionable signal from difficult manager feedback and turn it into three specific changes.
- work Compare Two Approaches to Having a Difficult Conversation With Your Manager
Find the approach to the manager conversation that is most likely to actually work.
- work Critique Your Team's Meeting Culture
Name what is actually wrong with how your team meets.
- work Decide Whether to Raise a Concern With Your Manager or Handle It Yourself
Work out whether to raise a workplace concern or handle it yourself.
- work Reframe a Project That Is Behind Schedule Without Losing Credibility
Deliver a project delay update without losing stakeholder confidence.
- work Explain a Decision to People Who Were Not in the Room
Communicate a decision to your team without being defensive or evasive.
- work Reframe the Negative Feedback Before You Respond to It
Work out what the feedback actually means before you react to it.
- work Explain Why a Project Failed Without Assigning Blame
Explain a project failure honestly without making it about individuals.
- work Explain a Complex Decision to a Team That Did Not Make It
Explain a decision your team did not make in a way they can work with.
- work Write a Performance Review That Says Something Useful
Write a performance review specific enough to be worth reading.
- work Explain Why Your Project Is at Risk Before Someone Else Does
Write the project risk update that gets people to help rather than panic.
- learn Give Feedback That Actually Changes Something
Have the feedback conversation that actually leads somewhere.
- work Run a Sprint Retrospective with Your Team
Run a sprint retrospective that produces one change, not a list of good intentions.
- work Create a One-Week Onboarding Plan for a New Team Member
Give a new team member a first week they can actually navigate.
- work Prepare for a Difficult One-to-One with Your Manager
Go into a difficult manager conversation with a clear plan and actual words.
- work Reframe a Team That Is Resisting Change
Treat team resistance as useful information rather than an obstacle to manage around.
- work Critique Your Team's Meeting Culture
Identify the meetings that have become rituals rather than decisions, before they multiply.
- work Critique a Project Plan for What It Assumes but Does Not Say
Find the five assumptions your project plan is making before they become five problems.
- work Generate a Project Risk Register From a Brief
Build a proportionate risk register from the project brief rather than a generic checklist.