{"id":"lead-weekly-update-win-risk-ask","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"audience","title":"Write a three-line weekly update your CEO will act on","free":false,"task":"Your CEO, Mara, wants your weekly update as exactly three lines labeled Win:, Risk:, Ask:, in that order. The Ask must be a decision only Mara can make. Plain text, under 70 words.","materialLabel":"Your notes for the week (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Week of Nov 10 - Customer Onboarding team\n\n- Onboarded 14 new accounts (goal was 12). Avg time to first login down from 6 days to 3.\n- Two people out sick Tue/Wed, covered it.\n- Data import vendor (FlowBridge) is late on the new connector. They said Nov 15. Today they emailed: now Dec 1. Three enterprise accounts are waiting on it.\n- To keep those 3 accounts moving, a contractor could build a manual import for $3,000. Over my $1,000 spending limit, so Mara has to approve.\n- Retro went well, team wants a shared FAQ doc. I'll start it.\n- Office coffee machine still broken.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Writing a full report","why":"The AI covers every note: sick days, retro, coffee machine.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 3 lines: Win:, Risk:, Ask:.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Old date in the risk","why":"The AI uses Nov 15, the date that was missed.","fix":"Add: \"FlowBridge's new date is Dec 1.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"A vague ask","why":"The AI asks for 'support' or 'thoughts' instead of a decision.","fix":"Add: \"Ask: approve the $3,000 contractor.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown in a plain update","why":"The AI bolds the labels and adds a heading.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the reader","patterns":["mara","ceo"]},{"label":"Gives the three labels","patterns":["win:","risk:","ask:"]},{"label":"Makes the ask a decision","patterns":["approv","decision","\\$?3,?000"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words"]}],"hint":"A busy CEO reads three lines, not ten. Tell the AI the labels, the order and what kind of ask belongs at the end.","rubricLabels":["Has exactly three lines labeled Win:, Risk:, Ask: in that order","Risk names the FlowBridge connector delay to Dec 1 (not Nov 15) and the 3 enterprise accounts waiting","Ask is for Mara to approve the $3,000 contractor for a manual import"]}