Search: "change-tracking"

#hr #manager #compensation

hr Intermediate

Coach a New Manager Through Their First Salary Conversation

I'm coaching a first-time manager who has to deliver a [raise / promotion / no-c...

#business #meetings #productivity

business Beginner

Business: Turn a 60-Minute Recurring Meeting Into a 20-Minute One

I have a recurring meeting that's bloated. Help me cut it. Output: (1) what the ...

#business #operations #scaling

business Advanced

Business: Diagnose Why a Process That Worked at 10 People Is Breaking at 30

Our [PROCESS] used to run smoothly. Now at [N] people, it's leaking — [SYMPTOMS]...

#data #visualization #charts

data Intermediate

Pick the Right Chart Type When Stakeholders Keep Asking for Pie Charts of Everything

My stakeholders default to asking for pie charts for every dataset, including on...

#education #feedback #writing-instruction

education Intermediate

Give Written Feedback on a Student's Essay Without Doing the Revision For Them

I have a student essay to grade. The student is bright but submitted weak work —...

#coding #sql #readability

Write a SQL query that you'll still understand in six months

Write a SQL query that answers this question: [QUESTION]. Tables and columns I h...

#email #change-management #internal-communication

email Intermediate

Announce a process change people didn't ask for without sounding tone-deaf

We're rolling out a new expense reporting tool next month. The current process w...

#coding #postmortem #incident-response

coding advanced

Write a postmortem that improves the system instead of blaming a person

Act as a postmortem facilitator at a company that takes blamelessness seriously ...

#hr #performance #feedback

hr Advanced

Have a Difficult Performance Conversation

Help me prepare for a difficult performance conversation with [report]. The issu...

#business #pre-mortem #risk

business Intermediate

Run a Pre-Mortem on a Major Initiative Before Approving It

Run a structured pre-mortem on this initiative: [DESCRIBE INITIATIVE, BUDGET, TI...

#coding #database #migration

coding Advanced

Write a Migration Plan for Renaming a Database Column

Plan a zero-downtime rename of database column [OLD_NAME] to [NEW_NAME] on table...

#coding #code-review #pull-request

Read a Pull Request Before You Approve It Without Reading It

I'm about to LGTM a PR I haven't fully read. Here's the diff: [paste diff or des...

#finance #cash-flow #forecast

finance Advanced

13-Week Cash Flow Forecast Template

Build a 13-week rolling cash flow forecast template. Columns: Week of, Beginning...

#code-review #self-review #pr

Coding: Review Your Own PR Before You Send It

Walk through my diff like a reviewer who doesn't know the context. For each file...

#landing-page #conversion #cro

marketing Intermediate

Marketing: Diagnose a Landing Page That Gets Traffic But No Signups

My landing page gets steady traffic but the signup rate is 0.4%. Help me diagnos...

#writing #structure #editing

writing Intermediate

Writing: Diagnose Why a Draft Feels Off Even Though Nothing Is Technically Wrong

I have a draft that reads fine sentence-by-sentence but doesn't land. Diagnose. ...

#coding #code-review #software-engineering

Coding: Review a PR Like You're the Last Line of Defense

Review the PR below as a senior engineer would. Cover: (1) correctness — does it...

#data #statistics #ab-testing

data Intermediate

Data: Decide Whether a Difference in Two Numbers Is Real or Noise

I have two numbers (a metric this period vs last period) and a stakeholder askin...

#data #analysis #statistics

data Advanced

Data: Stop a Stakeholder From Acting on a Spurious Correlation

A [ROLE] just sent me [CHART/CLAIM] showing [X correlates with Y] and they're ab...

productivity Intermediate

Productivity: Design a Habit That Survives the Week I Don't Feel Like It

I want to build a habit of [HABIT]. I've started it before and stopped. The patt...

#productivity #habits #behavior-change

#coding #refactoring #legacy-code

coding Advanced

Coding: Refactor Code I Don't Have Tests For Without Breaking It

I need to refactor [MODULE/FUNCTION] and there are no tests. Yes, I should add t...

#legal #contracts #negotiation

legal Intermediate

Legal: Negotiate an Indemnification Clause Without Reading Law School

A vendor sent me a contract with an indemnification clause: [PASTE OR DESCRIBE]....

#email #internal-communication #change-management

email Advanced

Announce a Policy Change Employees Won't Like Without Causing a Revolt in Slack

I need to send an internal email announcing a policy change my team won't like (...