Team Worked Examples (Executive)

Field

Detail

Problem

The leadership team is talking past one another about a shared decision.

Outcome

A clear account of the disagreement and the evidence or judgement needed to resolve it.

Context

The leader’s agreed problem, strategic outcomes, constraints and affected functions.

Habit

Make room for someone to challenge the first answer before the leadership team agrees.

Shift

Separate disagreements about evidence, outcomes and trade-offs so the team can decide what to resolve.

Prompt

Here is the problem: The leadership team is talking past one another about a shared decision. The outcome we need is: A clear account of the disagreement and the evidence or judgement needed to resolve it. Use this context: [insert the relevant evidence and constraints]. Ask me what is missing. Separate disagreements about evidence, outcomes and trade-offs so the team can decide what to resolve. Separate evidence from interpretation and help me decide what to check before acting.

Field

Detail

Problem

The leadership team has agreed a priority without exploring a credible alternative.

Outcome

A better-informed priority and a shared account of what the team still needs to learn.

Context

The leader’s prepared problem, each leader’s initial view and evidence from affected functions.

Habit

Ask for individual views before showing the AI response. Invite the person closest to the work to challenge it.

Shift

Surface conflicting assumptions and compare a genuinely different approach to the same outcome.

Prompt

Here is our agreed problem and our separate initial views: [context]. Identify where we agree for different reasons. Suggest three distinct approaches, including one that questions the framing. For each, show who benefits, who bears a cost and what we need to check with real people. Help us choose what to investigate, without choosing for us.