Meetings & notes21 categories
What should I ask in this meeting?
Walking into a meeting where you have a seat and no clear purpose.
Give me five questions to ask in this meeting that would change what we do next. No status questions.
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Before and during. Agendas, pre-reads, prep for a 1:1 or an exec slot, and plans for retros and workshops.
Related prompts
Design an agenda that earns the hourBefore sending a calendar invite that would otherwise just have a title.Write a pre-read people will actually readWhen the meeting only works if everyone arrives with the same context.Prepare for a one-to-oneFifteen minutes before a 1:1 you would otherwise improvise.Plan and facilitate a retrospectiveRunning a retro that should produce change rather than a list of grumbles.Prepare to present to executivesYou have ten minutes with senior people and a deck built for forty.Structure a brainstorm that produces somethingBefore a session where the loudest person would otherwise set the direction.
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