{"id":"mgr-x-review-period-strengths","audience":"managers","category":"writing-feedback","track":"writing","technique":"grounding","title":"Write a review summary that stays inside the review period","free":false,"task":"You're writing the summary box of Leo's annual review, which covers Jan 1 to Dec 31 this year. Write exactly 3 bullets labeled Strength:, Strength: and Growth:, each with one specific example from your notes, plain text, under 75 words. Use only events from this review period, and keep the growth area about behavior, not personality.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Review notes - Leo Park, Logistics Coordinator. Review period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2026.\n\n- Mar 2026: Built a carrier comparison sheet that cut freight costs 9% on our top 5 lanes.\n- Jun 2026: Ran the warehouse move. 2,300 pallets moved over one weekend with zero lost inventory.\n- Aug-Nov 2026: Missed 4 of 12 weekly carrier check-in calls without telling the carriers. Two carriers complained to me.\n- Sept 2026: Trained 3 new coordinators; all were working solo within 3 weeks.\n- Nov 2025: Shipping label mix-up cost $8,000. (This was LAST year's review period and was already addressed.)\n- Personal impression: he's a bit disorganized and scatterbrained.\n- HR reminder: review comments must be about behavior and results inside the period. Calibration may quote this box directly.","rules":[{"type":"maxBullets","max":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":75},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for 'a review'","why":"The AI writes several paragraphs with headings and ratings.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 3 bullets: Strength:, Strength:, Growth:. Plain text.\"","checks":["maxBullets","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 bullet instead: \"each bullet under 20 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Going outside the period","why":"The 2025 mistake is in your notes, and the AI treats it as evidence.","fix":"Add: \"Only events from Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2026. Skip the Nov 2025 item.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Personality in the growth area","why":"The AI may borrow your impression and call him disorganized.","fix":"Add: \"Growth: the missed carrier calls, as behavior. No personality words.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Generic strengths","why":"The AI writes 'strong team player' without an example.","fix":"Add: \"Each bullet has one specific example with a number.\"","checks":["r0"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Shows the labels","patterns":["strength:?","growth:?"]},{"label":"Limits to the period","patterns":["2026","review period","nov(ember)? 2025","last year"]},{"label":"Behavior, not personality","patterns":["behavio(u)?r","personalit","disorganized","no (labels|judg)"]},{"label":"Asks for examples","patterns":["example","specific","number"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"A fair review uses specific examples from the period it covers. Give the AI the labels, the date range, and tell it to describe behavior, not personality.","rubricLabels":["The two strengths each use a specific 2026 example (any two of: carrier sheet cut freight costs 9%, warehouse move with zero lost inventory, trained 3 coordinators solo in 3 weeks)","The growth area is the missed carrier check-in calls (4 of 12, carriers not told), described as behavior with no personality words (disorganized, scatterbrained)","Does not mention the Nov 2025 shipping label mix-up or $8,000, and has no intro or overall rating line"]}