{"id":"lead-promotion-evidence-gap-table","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"advanced","technique":"verification","title":"Map promotion evidence to criteria and show the gaps","free":false,"task":"Build a table for HR's promotion review with the header Criterion | Evidence | Gap and one row for each of the four criteria. Today is 2025-06-01. Only evidence from the last 12 months counts. Where a criterion has no counting evidence, write \"No evidence yet\" in the Evidence column and say why in the Gap column. Do not recommend whether to promote or rate her. After the table add this exact line: For HR and calibration review: no promotion recommendation made. Plain text, no bold.","materialLabel":"Criteria and evidence notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Senior Analyst criteria: Technical depth, Ownership, Communication, Mentoring.\n\nEvidence collected for Dara Okafor:\n- Mar 2025: built a churn model now used by three teams (technical work).\n- Nov 2024: led the pricing analysis end to end; recommendations shipped in January.\n- Jun 2023: gave a talk at the company meetup on forecasting.\n- Jan 2025: a peer wrote that Dara is \"great to work with\" (no examples given).\n- Apr 2025: fixed a data pipeline bug on her own after the on-call engineer was out.\n- No notes on training or coaching anyone.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":170},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Counting old evidence","why":"The AI uses the 2023 talk as proof of communication.","fix":"Say: \"Only evidence from the last 12 months counts; today is 2025-06-01.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Vague praise as evidence","why":"The AI treats \"great to work with\" as mentoring evidence.","fix":"Say: \"No evidence yet where there is no dated, specific example.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong table shape","why":"The AI adds columns or uses bullets.","fix":"Say: \"Header Criterion | Evidence | Gap, four rows.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Recommending","why":"The AI adds a verdict on promotion.","fix":"Say: \"Do not recommend; end with the exact line.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds headers.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold.\"","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":"Fixes the table columns","patterns":["criterion","evidence","gap"]},{"label":"States today's date and the 12-month window","patterns":["2025-06-01","12 months"]},{"label":"Uses the exact \"No evidence yet\" label","patterns":["no evidence yet"]},{"label":"Bans a recommendation","patterns":["do not recommend","no recommendation","not recommend"]},{"label":"Gives the closing line","patterns":["calibration review"]}],"hint":"Name the columns, set the 12-month cutoff from today, and give the exact label and closing line.","rubricLabels":["Has a table with the header Criterion | Evidence | Gap and exactly four rows for Technical depth, Ownership, Communication and Mentoring","Mentoring and Communication both show \"No evidence yet\" in the Evidence column, and the Communication gap says the June 2023 talk is older than 12 months","Technical depth and Ownership cite dated evidence (the churn model, the pricing analysis) and the table is followed by the exact line \"For HR and calibration review: no promotion recommendation made.\" with no recommendation to promote"]}