{"id":"lead-training-budget-cut-fewest-items","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"advanced","technique":"verification","title":"Choose budget cuts that hit a target by the smallest total","free":false,"task":"Your team must cut at least $18k from its budget. Compliance training cannot be cut. Choose the combination of items that reaches $18k or more while cutting the smallest total, using the latest figures. Write exactly 3 lines: \"Cut:\" with the items, \"Math:\" showing the addition with the figures, like \"5 + 4 = 9\", and \"Recommendation:\" with one sentence of at most 20 words for your director. Plain text.","materialLabel":"Budget lines (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Team budget lines available to cut (annual, in $k)\n\nA. Conference travel: 9\nB. External trainer: 7\nC. Team offsite: 6\nD. Analytics tool subscription: 4\nE. Compliance training: 5 (required by policy)\n\nUpdate from Finance, Nov 3: the analytics tool subscription can only be cut by 3, because the annual license for one seat is already paid.\n\nDirector's note: \"I would rather not touch the offsite if we can avoid it, but I know we may have to.\"\nTarget: cut at least $18k.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":75},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the old figure","why":"The AI cuts the tool for 4.","fix":"Say: \"Use the latest figures from the update.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Cutting too much","why":"The AI cuts the trainer too for a bigger total.","fix":"Say: \"Reach $18k or more while cutting the smallest total.\"","checks":["r1","r2"]},{"title":"Cutting compliance","why":"The AI includes required training.","fix":"Say: \"Compliance training cannot be cut.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong format","why":"The AI explains in paragraphs.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 3 lines: Cut:, Math:, Recommendation:.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds items.","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 three labels","patterns":["cut:","math:","recommendation:"]},{"label":"States the target","patterns":["\\$18k","18"]},{"label":"Asks for the smallest total","patterns":["smallest","least"]},{"label":"Says use latest figures","patterns":["latest","update"]},{"label":"Shows the working","patterns":["addition","5 \\+ 4","math"]}],"hint":"Give the three labels, the target, the \"smallest total\" rule and say to use the latest figures.","rubricLabels":["Has exactly three lines starting \"Cut:\", \"Math:\" and \"Recommendation:\" in that order","Cut names conference travel, team offsite and analytics tool subscription, and Math is 9 + 6 + 3 = 18","The Recommendation is one sentence of at most 20 words that supports this choice, and compliance training and the external trainer are not cut"]}