{"id":"lead-delegation-ownership-table-five-tasks","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"context","title":"Assign five recurring tasks to owners using strengths and capacity","free":false,"task":"Assign the five recurring team tasks to owners in a markdown table with columns Task, Owner, Backup, Why. Each person owns at most 2 tasks and backs up at most 2. Use only the people and facts in the notes, and respect each person's stated limits. Why is under 14 words. Output only the table.","materialLabel":"Team notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Team of 4: Ana, Ben, Cara, Dev.\n\nTasks: (1) weekly report, (2) vendor invoices, (3) customer survey follow-ups, (4) onboarding new hires, (5) tool access requests.\n\nPeople\n- Ana: great writer, detail-oriented; already runs the Monday meeting; can't take more than 1 task.\n- Ben: strong with numbers; new this year; no access to customer data yet.\n- Cara: good with customers; can take up to 2 tasks; on leave Dec 16-27 (do not make her sole owner of anything due weekly).\n- Dev: technical; manages tool access already; can take 2 tasks.\nUpdate: Ben just got customer-data access on Nov 4.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":190},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Overloading Ana","why":"The AI gives Ana three tasks.","fix":"Say: \"Ana can take at most 1 task.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Cara on a weekly task","why":"The AI makes Cara the owner of the weekly report.","fix":"Say: \"Cara is on leave Dec 16-27.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong shape","why":"The AI adds rows or columns.","fix":"Say: \"Columns: Task, Owner, Backup, Why; five rows.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Long reasons","why":"The AI writes sentences.","fix":"Say: \"Why under 10 words.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"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 cell: \"each cell under 10 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"]},{"title":"Adding bold and notes","why":"The AI bolds text and adds a title or notes around the answer.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text only: no bold, no headings, no notes.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Columns","patterns":["task","owner","backup","why"]},{"label":"Limits","patterns":["at most 2","can'?t take"]},{"label":"Leave","patterns":["leave","dec 16"]},{"label":"Strengths","patterns":["strength","good with"]},{"label":"Only table","patterns":["only the table"]}],"hint":"Name the columns, state the task limits and leave constraint, and cap the reasons.","rubricLabels":["The table has columns Task, Owner, Backup and Why with exactly five rows","No one owns more than 2 tasks, Ana owns at most 1, and the weekly report (weekly) is not owned solely by Cara","Fitting assignments such as Ana for the weekly report, Ben for vendor invoices, Cara for survey follow-ups or onboarding, and Dev for tool access, with every Why under 14 words"]}