Search: "bad news"

#cx #customer-journey #friction

business Intermediate

Map a Customer Journey with Friction Hotspots and Owners

Act as a CX strategist. Build me a full customer journey map for [product_or_ser...

#coding #architecture #microservices

coding Advanced

Decide whether to extract a service from your monolith yet

Act as a software architect. We have a [LANGUAGE]/[FRAMEWORK] monolith and a tea...

finance Advanced

Translate the P&L into a one-page story a non-finance executive will read

Act as a controller. Translate our [PERIOD] P&L into a one-page narrative for no...

#finance #reporting #pnl

#excel #power-query #reconciliation

excel Advanced

Reconcile two messy spreadsheets when the join keys don't match

I have two Excel files I need to reconcile, but the join columns aren't clean ma...

#board #bad-news #governance

business Advanced

Tell a board the bad news without losing their confidence in your judgment

I need to tell the board that [specific bad news — missed target, deal lost, key...

#hr #layoff #difficult-conversation

hr advanced

Run a layoff conversation that treats the person like an adult

Act as an HR leader who has run too many layoff conversations and seen them done...

#excel #dates #data cleaning

excel Intermediate

Turn a messy date column into clean, consistent dates in Excel

I have an Excel column of dates entered in mixed formats (some text, some real d...

#writing #op-ed #pitching

writing Advanced

Write an Op-Ed Pitch a Major Outlet Will Open

Help me pitch an op-ed to [OUTLET]. My argument: [ARGUMENT IN ONE SENTENCE]. Why...

#contracts #vendor #review

legal Intermediate

Legal: Spot the Risky Clauses in a Vendor Contract Before Signing

Read this vendor contract and flag the clauses that would matter in a bad scenar...

#education #assessment #pedagogy

education Advanced

Education: Write a Test Question That Measures Understanding, Not Memorization

I'm writing an assessment for [TOPIC, LEVEL]. Give me three question formats tha...

productivity Intermediate

Productivity: Audit My Calendar for Meetings That Should Be Async

Here's my week: [PASTE CALENDAR]. For each recurring meeting, ask: does it need ...

#productivity #calendar #async

#education #teaching #pedagogy

education Intermediate

Education: Teach a Concept I Understand But Have Never Had to Explain

I need to teach [CONCEPT] to [AUDIENCE — students, new hires, non-experts] and I...

#business #operations #principles

business Intermediate

Write a one-page operating principles doc the team will actually remember

I want to write a one-page operating principles document for my team — the kind ...

#education #parent-conference #classroom-management

education intermediate

Run a parent-teacher conference that produces a behavior change, not a list of grievances

Act as a veteran teacher coaching a colleague before a difficult parent-teacher ...

finance Advanced

Stress-test a financial plan against a bad month

I'll describe my financial plan or runway. Run it against the month where things...

#finance #planning #risk

#email #cold-outreach #sales

email Intermediate

Write a Personalized Cold Sales Email

You are a B2B copywriter who specializes in cold outreach that gets replies. Wri...

#hr #compensation #retention

hr Advanced

Hr: Tell a Top Performer There's No Raise This Cycle Without Losing Them

[NAME] is a top performer and there's no budget for a raise this cycle: [REASON ...

#finance #cashflow #forecasting

finance Intermediate

Forecast cashflow for a business with lumpy revenue and predictable costs

I run a business with predictable costs but lumpy revenue — some months are 3x o...

#business #growth #funnel-analysis

business Advanced

Audit my growth funnel for the leak that's actually costing the most

My team has a list of 'growth ideas' a mile long, but I suspect we're working on...

productivity Intermediate

Set up a morning routine that gets one hard thing done before noon

I want to get one hard thing done every morning before noon, even on days I don'...

#productivity #routine #habits

productivity Intermediate

Build a habit that survives the week you don't feel like it

I want to build [habit]. Most advice covers the easy weeks; I need a plan for th...

#habits #consistency #minimum viable

#legal #copyright #takedown

legal Intermediate

Draft a takedown notice that doesn't read like a threat

Someone copied our content (text + structure) onto their site. I want them to ta...

#finance #investor-update #founder

finance Advanced

Write an investor update that doesn't sugarcoat a bad month

We just had a rough month — revenue down 15%, one key customer churned. Help me ...