{"id":"lead-skip-level-question-bank-themes","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"audience","title":"Write a skip-level question bank grouped in three themes","free":false,"task":"Write 6 skip-level questions for engineers two levels below you, grouped in three themes with two questions each. Format: a theme line (Work:, People: or Growth:) followed by two numbered questions (1. 2.), restarting at 1 under each theme. Questions are open, under 16 words, none mentions a person by name, and none asks the engineer to rate their manager.","materialLabel":"Your context (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Context for skip-level chats (Platform org, 42 engineers, 6 managers)\n\n- Known: the deploy process takes 3 approvals and engineers complain about it.\n- Known: two senior engineers left this year; both mentioned unclear promotion paths in exit interviews.\n- Unknown: how well teams collaborate across Platform and Mobile.\n- Goal: learn what's getting in the way; not to evaluate managers.\n- Don't ask leading questions like \"Don't you think deploys are too slow?\"\n- The engineers' managers: Ola, Pete, Quinn, Rik, Sue, Tran (don't name them in questions).\n- Don't ask anything about compensation.","rules":[{"type":"questionCount","count":6},{"type":"maxWords","max":110}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Leading questions","why":"The AI asks 'Don't you think deploys are slow?'.","fix":"Say: \"Open, non-leading questions only.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Naming managers","why":"The AI uses names.","fix":"Say: \"No manager names, no ratings, no compensation.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong grouping","why":"The AI writes a flat list.","fix":"Say: \"Three themes, two numbered questions each.\"","checks":["r0","questionCount"]},{"title":"Missing the known concerns","why":"The AI asks generic questions.","fix":"Say: \"Cover deploy approvals, promotion paths and cross-team collaboration.\"","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 question: \"each under 14 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":"Themes","patterns":["work:","people:","growth:"]},{"label":"Two each","patterns":["two (numbered )?questions","2 questions"]},{"label":"Open","patterns":["open","non-leading"]},{"label":"No names","patterns":["no names","don'?t name"]},{"label":"Topics","patterns":["deploy","promotion","collaboration"]}],"hint":"Show the theme labels, two questions each, and list the things to avoid.","rubricLabels":["Has three theme lines labeled Work:, People: and Growth: each followed by exactly two numbered questions","All six questions are open and under 16 words, and none is leading, names a manager, asks for a rating of a manager or asks about compensation","The questions cover the known concerns (the approval steps for deploys and unclear promotion paths) and the unknown (cross-team collaboration with Mobile) without presuming the answer"]}