{"id":"lead-cascade-talking-points-managers","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"audience","title":"Write cascade talking points for managers to repeat to their teams","free":false,"task":"Managers will repeat your news to their teams on Monday. Write cascade talking points in plain text: exactly 3 lines starting with \"Say:\", then 1 line starting with \"If asked about layoffs:\" and 1 line starting with \"Do not say:\". Each line is under 25 words, spoken-friendly and uses only confirmed facts. No greeting or closing.","materialLabel":"Leadership briefing (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Briefing: merger of Sales Ops and Revenue Ops (fictional company Trellis Works)\n\nCONFIRMED\n- Sales Ops (9 people) and Revenue Ops (6 people) become one team of 15 called Revenue Operations, effective Jan 6.\n- Led by Carmen Ortiz (currently head of Revenue Ops). Sales Ops head Lee Park becomes Director of Forecasting under Carmen.\n- Nobody's pay changes. Titles for non-managers are unchanged.\n- Reason: duplicate reports and two forecasts that don't match.\n- Team meeting with Carmen and Lee on Dec 4 at 10 am.\n\nNOT CONFIRMED / DO NOT SHARE\n- Possible job cuts in Q2: \"being modeled\", no decision.\n- Budget for the combined team is not final.\n- Rumor that Lee is unhappy with the move.\n\nLegal guidance: do not promise anyone their job is safe; do not say there will be no layoffs.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":140},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Promising job security","why":"The AI reassures with 'no one will lose their job'.","fix":"Say: \"Never promise jobs are safe; for layoffs questions say 'I don't have more to share'.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Sharing unconfirmed items","why":"The AI mentions the Q2 modeling or Lee's mood.","fix":"Say: \"Confirmed facts only.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong structure","why":"The AI writes a speech.","fix":"Say: \"Three Say lines, one If asked line, one Do not say line.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI uses bold labels.","fix":"Say: \"Plain 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 line: \"each line under 25 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":"Line labels","patterns":["say:","if asked","do not say"]},{"label":"Three Say lines","patterns":["3 lines","three"]},{"label":"Confirmed only","patterns":["confirmed","only (the )?facts"]},{"label":"No promises","patterns":["never promise","don'?t promise","legal"]},{"label":"Plain text","patterns":["plain text"]}],"hint":"Name the five lines by label and say what a manager must never promise.","rubricLabels":["Has exactly three lines starting \"Say:\" with the merger of the two teams into a 15-person Revenue Operations team on Jan 6 led by Carmen Ortiz, that no pay changes, and the Dec 4 10 am meeting","The \"If asked about layoffs:\" line tells managers to say they have no information beyond what is shared or to send the question up, and does not say jobs are safe or that there will be no layoffs","The \"Do not say:\" line names things to avoid (such as promises about jobs, the Q2 modeling, the budget or Lee's feelings) and the output has no greeting or closing"]}