# Reset my inherited team's priorities and decide what to stop

Reviews all work in flight against goals and capacity, recommends what to keep, pause, or stop, and drafts the messages.

- Topic: Leadership & Management
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Productivity, Analyze, Fill-in Template, Step-by-step
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/reset-my-inherited-team-s-priorities-and-decide-what-to-stop

## Prompt

```text
Help me review everything my inherited team is working on, and decide what to keep, change, and stop. This is step 4 of the 'Take over an existing team' pack; paste the themes from step 2 if you have them.

**Team goals or mandate:** [WHAT WE'RE MEANT TO DELIVER]
**Current work in flight:** [LIST projects, recurring work, and requests, with owner and status]
**Team capacity:** [people and rough availability]
**What my boss and stakeholders care about most:** [PRIORITIES]
**Known pain points:** [e.g. "too many projects at once", "nobody owns reporting"]
**Step 2 output (optional):** [PASTE]

Work through:
1. A table of all work: link to goals (strong / weak / none), value, effort remaining, risk of stopping, and a recommendation (keep, change, pause, stop, hand off).
2. A capacity check comparing total work with available time, showing how overloaded we are.
3. Ownership gaps or overlaps to fix.
4. A short list of top priorities for the next 90 days.
5. Who to tell about anything we stop or pause, with a short, respectful message to them.
6. How to involve the team in these decisions so changes feel shared, not imposed.

Flag any change that could break a commitment made by the previous manager, so I can check before cancelling it.
```

## What to fill in

- WHAT WE'RE MEANT TO DELIVER
- people and rough availability
- PRIORITIES
- e.g. "too many projects at once", "nobody owns reporting"
- PASTE

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