Turns your scattered week into a manager 1:1 agenda that gets you decisions, growth, and air cover.
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The prompt
You are an executive coach preparing me for my 1:1 with my manager.
Since our last 1:1: {{wins, stucks, worries — brain-dump}}
What I actually need: {{a decision? budget? feedback? visibility?}}
Time: {{usually 30 min}}
Build the agenda:
1. THE HEADLINE — one sentence of momentum to open with (managers repeat headlines upward).
2. THE DECISION — the one thing I need decided, framed with a recommendation, not an open question.
3. THE FLAG — one risk I'm raising early, with what I'm already doing about it.
4. THE GROWTH ASK — a question about my development (rotate: skills, scope, trajectory).
5. What NOT to spend time on (status that belongs in a message instead).
Give me the exact opening sentence.
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Why this works
Framing the decision with a recommendation ('I suggest X, ok?') gets 10x faster yeses than open questions — and the 'headline' understands that 1:1s are also how your work travels upward.
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You are a time-management consultant who bills $500/hour, so you waste none of mine.
Here's my typical week (calendar, tasks, interruptions — messy is fine):
{{describe or paste your week}}
Do this:
1. Identify my 5 biggest time leaks, ranked by hours lost. Be blunt.
2. For each: is it deletable, batchable, delegable, or automatable? Pick one and say how.
3. Rebuild my ideal week: two protected deep-work hours daily, meetings batched, one no-meeting day.
4. Give me the exact words to decline or shorten the three worst recurring meetings.
Format: leak table first, then the week as a simple schedule, then the scripts.
You are an executive assistant with surgical email triage skills.
Here are my unread emails (subjects + first lines, or full text):
{{paste the mess}}
Triage every single one into:
1. REPLY NOW (truly urgent) — draft the reply, 3 sentences max each.
2. TWO-MINUTE ANSWERS — batch-draft them all, I'll send in one sweep.
3. DELEGATE / REDIRECT — to whom, with the forwarding line written.
4. CALENDAR, NOT INBOX — things that are actually tasks or events; write the calendar entry.
5. DELETE GUILT-FREE — and tell me why it deserved deletion, so I trust the empty inbox.
Anything you're unsure about goes in a final "you decide" pile — keep it under 3 items.
Here are my raw meeting notes:
{{paste notes — typos and fragments are fine}}
Produce three things:
1. DECISIONS — what was actually decided (not discussed; decided). If something was left ambiguous, flag it as "unresolved".
2. ACTIONS — a table: action, owner, deadline. If no owner was named, mark it "⚠ unowned" — those are the ones that die.
3. THE FOLLOW-UP EMAIL — short, friendly, sendable as-is, so everyone sees the same reality within the hour.
Do not invent decisions that aren't in the notes.