Find what matters
- What is the one outcome that would make this a good week?
- Which of these actually moves the goal forward?
- What feels urgent but is not really important?
Coaching prompts
Coaching prompts that help a report decide what matters most
Overwhelmed people do not need more urgency; they need help choosing. These prompts coach a report to surface the real priorities, make trade-offs out loud, and decide what to put down.
Copyable template
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Decide what to drop
- What can wait until next week without real cost?
- What could you stop doing entirely and no one would notice?
- What will you protect time for, no matter what comes up?
Surface the real priority
When everything feels urgent, nothing is. Use prompts that force a single most-important outcome to the surface so the person can anchor their week to it.
- If you could only finish one thing this week, what would it be?
- What actually moves the goal versus just feels busy?
- What is the cost of this slipping a week?
Make the trade-off explicit
Prioritization is choosing what not to do. Prompts that name what gets dropped or deferred turn an overwhelmed list into a deliberate plan.
Revisit the choices that drift
Priorities set in one conversation quietly erode by the next. When the agreed focus is captured and revisited, you can coach against the drift back into busywork instead of resetting from scratch each week.
Workflow example
Instead of "you have a lot on," a manager asks "if only one of these shipped this week, which matters most — and what are you comfortable dropping?" — then checks the choice held up next time.
Example output
The visible output should be concrete enough to inspect.
- A single clear priority for the week
- An explicit list of what waits or drops
- Trade-offs the person made on purpose
- Focus that is revisited, not reset weekly
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