{"id":"lead-mentoring-pairs-same-manager-rule","audience":"hr","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"constraints","title":"Pair mentees with mentors by goal and flag conflicts","free":false,"task":"Match each mentee to one mentor by goal. A mentor cannot be paired with someone who reports to the same manager. Output a table with the header Mentee | Mentor | Reason, one row per mentee, where Reason is under 12 words. If the only fitting mentor shares a manager, write \"No match yet\" as the Mentor and say why. HR confirms all pairs. Plain text, under 100 words.","materialLabel":"Mentoring program sign-ups (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Mentoring program sign-ups\n\nMentees (name, manager, goal)\n- Ayla Kerr, manager Dana Roy: improve public speaking.\n- Ben Osei, manager Dana Roy: learn budgeting.\n- Chloe Park, manager Evan Shaw: learn SQL.\n- Dev Patel, manager Fay Lin: lead a project for the first time.\n\nMentors (name, manager, strengths)\n- Pia Novak, manager Dana Roy: gives conference talks and coaches presenters.\n- Quinn Adler, manager Evan Shaw: finance partner, builds budgets.\n- Rae Ito, manager Gus Moreno: analytics lead, writes SQL daily.\n- Sol Bruno, manager Hana Vu: program manager who runs big projects.\n\nNote: mentors can take only one mentee each.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Ignoring the manager rule","why":"The AI pairs Ayla with Pia.","fix":"Say: \"A mentor cannot be paired with someone who reports to the same manager.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Pairing Chloe with her own manager's mentor","why":"The AI pairs Chloe with Quinn because of finance.","fix":"Say: \"Match by goal and check each manager.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"No explanation","why":"The AI writes only names.","fix":"Say: \"Reason under 12 words; for no match, say why.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong table","why":"The AI adds columns.","fix":"Say: \"Header Mentee | Mentor | Reason, four rows.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds the header.","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 part instead, for example: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the header","patterns":["mentee \\|","mentor \\|"]},{"label":"States the manager rule","patterns":["same manager","reports to"]},{"label":"Gives the fallback","patterns":["no match yet"]},{"label":"Caps reasons","patterns":["under 12 words"]},{"label":"Mentions HR confirmation","patterns":["hr confirms","hr"]}],"hint":"Give the table header, the manager rule, the exact fallback phrase and the HR note.","rubricLabels":["Has the header Mentee | Mentor | Reason and exactly four rows for Ayla, Ben, Chloe and Dev","Ben is paired with Quinn Adler, Chloe with Rae Ito and Dev with Sol Bruno","Ayla's Mentor is \"No match yet\" with the reason that the only speaking mentor, Pia, shares manager Dana Roy, and nothing says the pairs are final without HR"]}