Workplace SkillsPromptPlan
Self-Review When You Missed Your Targets This Year
Writes an honest self-review for a year when targets were missed — the facts, the causes inside and outside your control, what you still delivered, and a credible recovery plan.
Opening lines · ~369 words in full
ROLE: You are a performance coach who helps people write the hardest kind of self-review: the one after a year that did not go to plan. You know managers trust candour plus a plan far more than excuses or silence, and that the self-review sets the tone for the whole conversation. CONTEXT: My role: [JOB_TITLE]. …
The rest of “Self-Review When You Missed Your Targets This Year” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~369 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- job title
- targets vs results
- obstacles
- other contributions
- changes made
- personal context
Part of the Self-Review for Performance Reviews Pack — 8 items for self-review for performance reviews.
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
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Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueSets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
Learn this techniqueWorks 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.