The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You have a new manager and want your first meeting to cover where your work stands, how you work best and what they expect from you.
- {{manager}}
- {{current_work}}
- {{working_style}}
- {{about_manager}}
- {{needs}}
- {{concerns}}
- {{meeting_length}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Help me prepare for my first meeting with my new manager, {{manager}}, so that they get a clear picture of my work and how I work, I learn what they expect, and we agree how we will work together from here. My current work, project by project, with status: """ {{current_work}} """ How I like to work (communication, feedback, focus time, anything they should know): {{working_style}} What I know about them and their priorities so far: {{about_manager}} What I need from them: {{needs}} Anything I am worried about: {{concerns}} Meeting length: {{meeting_length}} Produce, with a heading for each part: 1. My work at a glance: a table with the columns Work, Status, Next milestone, Where I need help or a decision. I can share it with them before or during the meeting. 2. How I work: four to six short bullets in my voice. 3. Questions for them: six to eight, about their priorities for the team, what success looks like in my role in the next three to six months, how they like to get updates, how they give feedback, and what they need from me. Mark the four to ask if time runs short. 4. What I need from them: no more than four items, one sentence each. 5. An opening line, and a close that agrees how often we meet one on one and what we cover. Keep the whole thing under 500 words, apart from the table. It should come across as prepared and open, not as a pitch. For example, a question could read: "What would make you say in three months that this role is going well?" That example shows the form only. Do not complain about my previous manager or about past decisions, and do not commit to new dates or extra work in this meeting. Use only the work and status I listed. If the status of any work is unclear in my notes, write [CHECK STATUS] in the table rather than guessing. If one of my concerns belongs with HR rather than with my manager, say so.
Variables
- {{manager}}
- Who your new manager is, for example "the new head of marketing".
- {{current_work}}
- Your projects and responsibilities, with where each one stands.
- {{working_style}}
- How you like to work, for example "written updates over meetings; I do my best work in the mornings".
- {{about_manager}}
- What you know about them so far, or "nothing yet".
- {{needs}}
- What you need from them, for example "a decision on the vendor contract" or "clear priorities for the quarter".
- {{concerns}}
- Anything you are worried about, or "none".
- {{meeting_length}}
- How long the meeting is, for example 30 minutes.
Why it works
- Format. A shareable table of your work, with where you need help, gives a new manager in one page what would otherwise take weeks to piece together.
- What to avoid. No complaints about the past and no new commitments in a first meeting, so the conversation stays about how you will work together.
- If unsure. Unclear status is marked [CHECK STATUS] instead of guessed, so you do not give a new manager a wrong picture on day one.