Resign professionally and leave on good terms
A resignation letter, a plan for the conversation with your manager, and a clean handover.
The prompt
Help me resign well.
My role and company: [ROLE, TEAM]
Notice period and last day: [DATES]
Reason (only what I want to share): [e.g. new opportunity, relocation, personal]
Relationship with my manager: [good / neutral / strained]
Things to hand over: [projects, clients, systems]
Give me:
1. Resignation letter — short, gracious, factual: last day, thanks, offer to help with the transition. No complaints, no over-explaining.
2. Talking points for telling my manager in person or on a call, including how to respond if they make a counteroffer or ask why.
3. Handover plan — a checklist of what to document and who needs to know what before I leave.
4. Goodbye message to colleagues for my last day.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- ROLE, TEAM
- DATES
- e.g. new opportunity, relocation, personal
- good / neutral / strained
- projects, clients, systems
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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