{"id":"exec-qbr-talk-track-ninety-seconds","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"audience","title":"Write a 90-second spoken QBR opening with one number per beat","free":false,"task":"Write the opening you will say aloud at the quarterly business review, plain text, 6 sentences, under 110 words. Sentence 1: the headline result with its number. Sentences 2-3: one thing that worked, with a number. Sentences 4-5: one thing that did not work, with a number. Sentence 6: the single ask. Use the corrected numbers, say no quarter-over-quarter percentages, and avoid the words robust and strong.","materialLabel":"Quarter notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Q3 notes - Customer Success (fictional)\n\n- Net revenue retention: 104% (the first dashboard showed 109%, which included a one-time upsell; 104% is the clean number).\n- Worked: the new health score caught 27 at-risk accounts early; we saved 19 of them.\n- Did not work: onboarding time went up from 31 to 38 days because we were short two people for six weeks.\n- Churned customers: 14 (target was 10).\n- Ask: approve 2 hires (already in the plan, $190k loaded) by Oct 15 so onboarding recovers before Q4.\n- Team morale is high.\n- A competitor launched a cheaper plan in September. Not relevant to this review.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"maxSentences","max":6},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the inflated number","why":"The AI says 109%.","fix":"Say: \"Use the clean 104%.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Skipping the bad news","why":"The AI only reports wins.","fix":"Say: \"Sentences 4-5: one thing that did not work with a number.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Weak ask","why":"The AI ends with 'we look forward to your support'.","fix":"Say: \"Sentence 6: approve 2 hires by Oct 15.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong sentence count","why":"The AI writes 9 sentences.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 6 sentences.\"","checks":["maxSentences"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI adds headings.","fix":"Say: \"Plain spoken text.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each sentence: \"each under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Six sentences","patterns":["6 sentences","six"]},{"label":"Beats","patterns":["sentence 1","sentences 2","worked","did not work"]},{"label":"Numbers","patterns":["number"]},{"label":"Ask","patterns":["ask","hires"]},{"label":"Bans","patterns":["robust","strong"]}],"hint":"Give each sentence's job, ban the filler words, and say which retention figure to use.","rubricLabels":["Sentence 1 gives net revenue retention as 104% (not 109%)","Sentences 2-3 cover the health score catching 27 at-risk accounts and saving 19, and sentences 4-5 cover onboarding rising from 31 to 38 days because of two missing people","Sentence 6 is the ask to approve the 2 hires by Oct 15, and the words robust and strong do not appear"]}