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hr Advanced

Design an interview that tests for the job, not for interviewing

Design an interview loop for [ROLE] that tests for what the job actually require...

#hr #interview #hiring

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

#marketing #brand #performance

marketing advanced

Decide whether to invest in brand or performance for the next quarter

Act as a head of marketing trying to defend a budget split to a quantitative CEO...

#excel #pivot-tables #reporting

excel Beginner

Excel: Build a Pivot Table That Answers the Question Your Boss Actually Asked

I have a dataset and a vague question from leadership. Help me design a pivot ta...

#email #cold-outreach #sales

email Intermediate

Email: Write a Cold Outreach That Doesn't Sound Like Every Other Cold Email

I'm reaching out cold to a prospect and I want to skip the 'I hope this finds yo...

hr Intermediate

Diagnose why team morale dropped without anyone saying anything specific

Something shifted on my team about 6 weeks ago. Output is fine. Slack feels quie...

#hr #culture #morale

#coding #architecture #microservices

coding Advanced

Decide whether this new feature belongs in our existing service or its own

We're about to build a new feature. Someone on the team wants to put it in our e...

productivity Intermediate

Build a Friday shutdown ritual that protects the weekend

I keep working through the weekend in my head because nothing closes on Friday. ...

#productivity #weekly-review #gtd

productivity Intermediate

Replace a recurring meeting with something async without breaking the relationship

We have a recurring [weekly / biweekly] meeting with [who] about [what]. Honestl...

#productivity #meetings #async

customer-service intermediate

Decide which support tickets deserve a phone call instead of a ticket update

Act as a support operations leader. My team handles tickets through a queue, but...

#customer-service #escalation #support-ops

#market-entry #partnerships #build-vs-partner

Decide whether to enter a new market through a partnership or a direct build

You're a strategy advisor who has watched both succeed and fail. We want to ente...

#retention #stay-interview #performance

hr Intermediate

Run a stay interview with a top performer who's gone quiet

You're a manager who has lost good people by missing this signal. One of my best...

#board #miss #communication

finance Advanced

Build a board update that explains a miss without losing the room

You're a CFO who has presented bad numbers to a board before. We missed the quar...

#business #pre-mortem #risk

Run a Pre-Mortem on a Project Plan

You are a risk facilitator running a pre-mortem. I will describe a project I'm a...

#hr #hiring #interviewing

hr Advanced

Hr: Write an Interview Loop That Doesn't Just Re-Test the Resume

Design an interview loop for [ROLE]. Right now we have [CURRENT LOOP]. Each roun...

#hr #conflict-resolution #management

hr Advanced

Hr: Mediate a Conflict Between Two Direct Reports Without Picking a Side

Two of my reports, [A] and [B], are in conflict over [ISSUE]. They've both come ...

#business #strategy #market-entry

Business: Decide Whether to Enter a Market Where We'd Be #4

We're considering entering [MARKET] where [3 INCUMBENTS] already exist. Conventi...

#data #cleaning #preprocessing

data Intermediate

Clean a messy dataset without losing the rows that actually mattered

I have a dataset with [N] rows and [LIST PROBLEMS: missing values, duplicates, m...

finance advanced

Pick the right metric for a unit that does not fit the company's KPI tree

Act as an FP&A leader. A new business unit does not fit the company's existing K...

#finance #metrics #fpna