Prepare my update and asks for a senior leadership team meeting
Talking points for representing your team in a leadership meeting: headline, decisions needed, risks, and answers to tough questions.
The prompt
Help me prepare what I'll say when I represent my team or function in a senior leadership meeting.
Meeting and audience: [e.g. "monthly exec team meeting - CEO, CFO, COO"]
My slot: [MINUTES I have, and whether it's an update, a decision, or a discussion]
What's going on in my area: [PASTE notes, metrics, status, wins, problems]
What I need from them: [decision, budget, headcount, air cover, a trade-off, nothing]
Their current priorities and sensitivities: [what they care about right now]
Anything they may already have heard: [rumors, escalations, bad numbers]
Give me:
1. My headline - one sentence on where things stand, said in the first 20 seconds.
2. 3-5 talking points in priority order, each with the supporting number or fact from my notes.
3. The ask, worded so it can be answered yes or no, with the consequence of each answer.
4. Bad news handled early: how to raise any miss or risk plainly, with what I'm doing about it.
5. Likely tough questions (6-8), especially from finance and the CEO, with short answers.
6. What to leave out - detail that will pull the meeting off track.
7. A 60-second version in case my slot gets cut.
Rules: use only numbers from my notes; mark anything I need to check as [CONFIRM]. No spin - if something is off track, say so. Write in short sentences I can say aloud.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "monthly exec team meeting - CEO, CFO, COO"
- PASTE notes, metrics, status, wins, problems
- decision, budget, headcount, air cover, a trade-off, nothing
- what they care about right now
- rumors, escalations, bad numbers
- CONFIRM
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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