{"id":"ops-bottleneck-huddle-talk-track","audience":"managers","category":"operations-work","track":"operations","technique":"audience","level":"intermediate","title":"Write a 30-second huddle talk track naming the bottleneck with math","free":false,"task":"You lead a packing line and want a talk track for the start-of-shift huddle. Write a prompt for plain text, at most 5 sentences, spoken to the crew as \"we\". The first sentence names the slowest station by effective seconds per unit, accounting for how many people work it. Then give the line's output per hour as math, and end with one question to the crew about speeding up that station.","materialLabel":"Your material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PACKING LINE 2 - STATION TIMES (time study, Oct)\n\nStation          Workers   Seconds per unit (per worker)\nPick-to-tote       1          30\nPack               1          45\nQuality check      1          38\nLabel              2          52   (two workers share the work, alternating units)\nShip scan          1          30\n\nEffective time per unit for a station = seconds per unit / number of workers.\nThe line can only run as fast as its slowest station. Output per hour = 3,600 seconds / effective seconds per unit.\n\nLast week's note: \"Label is the slowest, it takes 52 seconds.\" (That was written before the second label worker was added.)","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxSentences","max":5}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Compares by effective time","patterns":["effective","per worker","/ workers","divided by"]},{"label":"Asks for the output math","patterns":["3,600","per hour","show the math"]},{"label":"Sets the voice","patterns":["we","crew","huddle"]},{"label":"Ends with one question","patterns":["end with","question","one question"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Naming Label as the slowest","why":"The AI uses the 52 seconds and ignores the second worker.","fix":"Say: \"Effective time = seconds per unit / number of workers.\"","checks":["r0","maxSentences"]},{"title":"Skipping the math","why":"The AI states the output without showing the division.","fix":"Say: \"Show output per hour as 3,600 / seconds = units.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong ending","why":"The AI ends with a motivational line instead of a question.","fix":"Say: \"End with one question to the crew about speeding up that station.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI adds bold, headings and bullets by default, which show up as stray symbols where this is pasted.","fix":"Say \"plain text, no bold, no headings, no asterisks\".","checks":["plainText"]}],"hint":"Say what the first sentence names, how to compare stations and what the last sentence asks.","mission":"Tell the packing crew which station is slowest.","musts":["Seconds per unit per crew","Output per hour as math","End with a question"],"rubricLabels":["The first sentence names Pack as the slowest station at 45 seconds per unit and does not name Label as the slowest","It shows the output as 3,600 / 45 = 80 units per hour and mentions Label as 52 / 2 = 26 seconds","It speaks as \"we\" to the crew and ends with exactly one question about speeding up the Pack station"]}