Skill: robansuini/leadership-prompts (version 1.0.1)

--- name: leadership-prompts description: > Curated collection of 25+ battle-tested prompts for engineering leaders — 1-on-1 prep, team health, incident retros, technical strategy, hiring, career development, and stakeholder communication. Built from 13+ years of engineering management experience. homepage: https://leadingin.tech license: MIT metadata: clawdis: emoji: 🎯 requires: bins: [node] --- # Leadership Prompts Battle-tested prompt library for engineering managers, tech leads, VPs of Engineering, and CTOs. These aren't generic "tell me about leadership" prompts — they're specific, opinionated frameworks for real challenges you face weekly. ## Who This Is For - Engineering Managers running teams of 5-15 - Tech Leads navigating the IC-to-management boundary - Directors/VPs managing managers - CTOs who still get their hands dirty ## Categories | Category | Count | When to reach for it | |---|---|---| | **1-on-1 Prep** | 4 | Before any non-routine 1-on-1 | | **Team Health** | 4 | After rough quarters, conflicts, layoffs, or remote disconnection | | **Incident Retrospectives** | 3 | Within 48h of incident resolution | | **Technical Strategy** | 4 | Quarterly planning, architecture reviews, build-vs-buy decisions | | **Hiring & Interviews** | 3 | Opening new roles, optimizing pipeline, closing candidates | | **Career Development** | 4 | Promotion cycles, feedback delivery, retention conversations | | **Stakeholder Communication** | 4 | Exec updates, saying no, cross-functional alignment, reorgs | ## Quick Start ### Using the CLI ```bash # List all categories node scripts/leadership-prompts.js list # Get a random prompt (great for manager skill-building) node scripts/leadership-prompts.js random # Search by keyword node scripts/leadership-prompts.js search "promotion" # Show a specific prompt by ID node scripts/leadership-prompts.js show career-dev-promotion # Get all prompts in a category node scripts/leadership-prompts.js category "Team Health" ``` ### Using with Your AI Assistant Just tell your assistant: > "I need to prepare for a 1-on-1 with an underperformer. Use the leadership-prompts skill to find the right prompt, then walk me through it." Or for browsing: > "Show me all the hiring prompts from leadership-prompts" ## How to Use a Prompt Each prompt has **placeholder variables** in `{curly_braces}`. Fill these in with your specific context. The more specific you are, the better the output. **Example:** The prompt says: > I'm preparing for a 1-on-1 with a direct report who has been underperforming for the past {timeframe}... You fill in: > I'm preparing for a 1-on-1 with a direct report who has been underperforming for the past 6 weeks... ## Prompt Design Principles These prompts are designed to: 1. **Force structure** — They use frameworks (SBI, RACI, RAG status) so your output is actionable, not rambling 2. **Include the uncomfortable parts** — Like "prepare for their defensive reaction" or "know when to escalate to HR" 3. **Be opinionated** — "The exec update is your team's marketing" isn't neutral advice, it's a perspective earned from experience 4. **Output something usable** — Every prompt specifies an output format you can immediately use in a meeting, doc, or conversation 5. **Acknowledge politics** — Real leadership happens in political contexts. These prompts include stakeholder dynamics, not just best practices ## Adding Your Own Prompts Add entries to `prompts.json` following the existing schema: ```json { "id": "category-short-name", "category": "Category Name", "title": "Human-readable title", "prompt": "The actual prompt text with {variables}", "context": "When to use this prompt", "output_format": "What the AI should produce", "example": "A filled-in example showing real usage" } ``` ## Credits Created by Rob — engineering manager since 2011, currently running [leadingin.tech](https://leadingin.tech). These prompts come from real situations managing teams at startups and scale-ups, not from management textbooks.


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