{"id":"lead-new-hire-30-day-plan-calendar-constraints","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"constraints","title":"Plan a new analyst's first 30 days around the team calendar","free":false,"task":"Plan your new analyst Zoe's first 30 days in plain text. Start Monday Jan 6. Write 5 dated lines, one per week, each in the form Wk N (Mon Jan X): outcome. Each outcome is checkable and fits the calendar: no outcome may require Zoe's work on blocked days, including the Jan 20 holiday. End with a line starting \"Day 30 check:\" with the one question you will ask her. Use only the notes.","materialLabel":"Calendar and plan notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"New analyst: Zoe Ito, starts Monday Jan 6. Reports to me.\n\nCalendar\n- Jan 6: HR orientation (all day, blocked).\n- Jan 8: laptop and access finalised; before then she can't touch the data warehouse.\n- Jan 14-15: team offsite in Denver; Zoe attends but no solo work.\n- Jan 20: public holiday (office closed).\n- Jan 27-31: quarterly close, the whole team is busy; Zoe shadows but doesn't own deliverables.\n- Day 30 = Feb 4 (Tuesday).\n\nPlan ideas\n- Week 1 she meets 8 stakeholders and reads the metrics glossary.\n- Week 2 she reproduces last month's churn report, with guidance.\n- Week 3 she owns a small analysis of onboarding drop-off with a deadline Jan 24.\n- Week 4: she shadows the quarterly close.\n- Week 5 (Feb 3-4): shares one improvement idea.\nNot planned: any management of others.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":150},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Scheduling on blocked days","why":"The AI plans solo work during the offsite.","fix":"Say: \"Respect the blocked and holiday days.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Vague outcomes","why":"The AI writes 'get familiar with the team'.","fix":"Say: \"Each outcome is checkable.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the Day 30 line","why":"The AI ends with a summary.","fix":"Say: \"End with Day 30 check: and one question.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI makes a table.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text lines.\"","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 format","patterns":["wk \\d","mon jan"]},{"label":"Five lines","patterns":["5 lines","five"]},{"label":"Calendar","patterns":["calendar","blocked","holiday"]},{"label":"Checkable","patterns":["checkable","measurable"]},{"label":"Day 30","patterns":["day 30 check"]}],"hint":"Give the line format and week start dates, require checkable outcomes, and ask for the Day 30 line.","rubricLabels":["Has five lines in the form Wk N (Mon Jan X): outcome for weeks starting Jan 6, Jan 13, Jan 20, Jan 27 and Feb 3, with checkable outcomes","No outcome relies on the warehouse before Jan 8, solo work on Jan 14-15, work on Jan 20, or owned deliverables during Jan 27-31, and the onboarding analysis is due Jan 24","The last line starts with \"Day 30 check:\" with one open question for Zoe, and nothing in the plan makes her manage others"]}