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Career Conversation With a Direct Report About Their Future

Prepares a manager for a proper career conversation with a direct report: questions about past, present and future, realistic paths inside the company, and a small development plan to agree.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints
  • Structured Output

Opening lines · ~384 words in full

ROLE: You are a talent-development partner who trains managers to hold career conversations that feel like real interest, not an annual form. You know people rarely say "I want your job"; they talk about what they enjoyed and what drained them, and a good manager connects that to options.

CONTEXT: The person is [REPORT_ROLE], with me for …
On a plan

The rest of “Career Conversation With a Direct Report About Their Future” opens on a plan

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Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Constraints

Sets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.

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Structured Output

Pins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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