{"id":"lead-late-reports-conversation-script-sbi","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"tone","title":"Script a conversation about late reports using facts and a request","free":false,"task":"Write a short spoken script for a conversation with Tamar about late weekly reports. Plain text, 6 sentences, under 120 words. Sentences 1-2: Situation and Behavior with dates; sentence 3: Impact; sentence 4: a question asking her view; sentence 5: a specific request with a date; sentence 6: offer of help. Do not make guesses about why, and finish with the line: HR to review before the conversation.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Notes on Tamar's weekly sales report\n\n- The report is due every Monday at 9:00. It goes to the VP.\n- Late on Oct 14 (arrived 11:20), Oct 28 (arrived Tuesday 8:30), and Nov 4 (arrived 10:15). On time Oct 21.\n- Impact: the VP's Monday leadership meeting started without the numbers twice (Oct 28, Nov 4); the VP asked me where it was.\n- I think she may be overloaded or maybe bored. I don't know and shouldn't say.\n- She has a new customer account since October 1.\n- Request: report in by Monday 9:00 starting Nov 18. \n- I can move my Friday 1:1 to a 30-minute working session to help her set up a template.\n- There was a rumor she's interviewing elsewhere. Ignore it.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"maxSentences","max":7},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Guessing at causes","why":"The AI mentions overload or boredom.","fix":"Say: \"Do not guess why.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Missing the dates","why":"The AI says 'recently'.","fix":"Say: \"Name the dates: Oct 14, Oct 28, Nov 4.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No request","why":"The AI ends with a general reminder.","fix":"Say: \"Request: by Monday 9:00 starting Nov 18.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Too many sentences","why":"The AI writes 10.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 6 sentences plus the HR line.\"","checks":["maxSentences"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI uses headings.","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 sentence: \"each under 20 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":"Structure","patterns":["situation","behavior","impact","question","request"]},{"label":"Dates","patterns":["oct 14","dates?"]},{"label":"No guessing","patterns":["don'?t guess","no guess"]},{"label":"HR line","patterns":["hr to review"]},{"label":"Plain","patterns":["plain text"]}],"hint":"Give each sentence a job, ban guessing, and state the closing line.","rubricLabels":["Sentences 1-2 give the dates and facts: the report is due Monday 9:00, and was late on Oct 14, Oct 28 and Nov 4","Sentence 3 states the impact (the VP's meeting started without numbers on Oct 28 and Nov 4), sentence 4 asks for her view, and sentence 5 requests the report by Monday 9:00 starting Nov 18","Sentence 6 offers the Friday working session, the script makes no guesses about her motives or the rumor, and it ends with the line \"HR to review before the conversation\""]}