{"id":"mgr-x-new-teammate-intro","audience":"managers","category":"writing-emails","track":"writing","technique":"context","title":"Introduce a new teammate without oversharing","free":false,"task":"Ana joins your team Monday, and you're introducing her in the team channel. Write it in under 70 words, plain text, saying what she'll own and who she'll work with first. Share only what Ana agreed to share, and leave out anything personal from your notes.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"New hire - Ana Ruiz, Payroll Specialist, starts Mon Mar 3\n\nFrom her offer and onboarding plan:\n- She'll own payroll for our 3 Texas sites (about 420 employees).\n- First 2 weeks: shadowing Deb on the Mar 14 payroll run.\n- Comes from 6 years in payroll at a hospital system.\n\nAna's intro preferences (from her onboarding form):\n- OK to share: her role, previous experience, that she loves trail running.\n- Prefers: \"Please don't make a big fuss, a short note is perfect.\"\n\nPrivate, don't share:\n- Relocating from Denver after a divorce; still sorting housing.\n- Negotiated salary up 8% from our first offer.\n- Will work remote on Fridays for the first 2 months (personal arrangement).\n\nTeam context: team of 7, we post intros in #payroll-team. Last intro I wrote was 4 paragraphs and people skimmed it.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for 'a welcome announcement'","why":"The AI writes a big, enthusiastic post with headings and fun facts.","fix":"Limit it: \"Under 60 words, plain text, at most one exclamation point. Output only the post.\"","checks":["plainText","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 part instead: \"3 sentences, each under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Leaving out the useful part","why":"The AI welcomes her warmly but forgets what she owns and who she'll work with.","fix":"Add: \"Say she owns payroll for the 3 Texas sites and shadows Deb first.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Oversharing","why":"Private details are in your notes, and the AI can't tell what she agreed to share.","fix":"Add: \"Only share her role, experience and trail running. Nothing else personal.\"","checks":["r1"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says what she'll own","patterns":["own","texas","role"]},{"label":"Limits what's shared","patterns":["only share","private","agreed to share","nothing personal","don'?t (share|mention)"]},{"label":"Sets the tone","patterns":["low.?key","no fuss","short","not over the top"]},{"label":"Says who she'll work with","patterns":["deb","shadow","work with"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"An intro should help the team know what she does, and respect what she's comfortable sharing. Tell the AI both, and how low-key she wants it.","rubricLabels":["Says Ana will own payroll for the 3 Texas sites (about 420 employees may appear) and that she'll shadow Deb first (on the Mar 14 payroll run)","Includes only shareable facts (role, 6 years of hospital payroll experience, trail running are allowed) and nothing private (no relocation, Denver, divorce, housing, salary or remote Fridays)","Contains only the post itself (no note before or after it about what was left out, and no offer to write more), uses at most one exclamation point, and has no bullet list"]}