stephenrogan Weekly Leadership Pack
Overview
Use this skill to support the leader as Sensemaker and operator. A weekly narrative that shows what changed, what matters, what is stuck, and what decisions are required.
This skill is human-led by design: the agent prepares the work, but the human leader owns judgment, relationship, accountability, and final decisions.
When to Use
Run this skill when:
- Weekly leadership review is due
- Metrics exist but the story is unclear
- The team is busy but decision requirements are hidden
Do not use it as a substitute for legal, HR, finance, security, medical, or executive approval. If the workflow affects employment, compensation, customer commitments, external messaging, or sensitive personal data, prepare the packet and stop for human review.
Inputs
Ask for or gather:
- Forecast, risk, performance, capacity, VOC, and process updates
- Prior weekly commitments
- Current priorities and decision log
- Known customer or people escalations
If inputs are missing, proceed with explicit assumptions and label confidence. Do not invent private context, motives, or facts.
Workflow
Follow this sequence:
- Identify meaningful changes since last week
- Separate metric movement from explanatory narrative
- Rank risks by consequence and reversibility
- Surface decisions required from the leader or exec team
- Close with owner/date/action follow-through
Before finalizing, run the boundary check: what is evidence, what is interpretation, what is a recommendation, and what must remain a human decision?
Output Format
Produce a concise, decision-ready artifact using this structure:
# Weekly Leadership Pack
## Situation
[Brief context and why this workflow is being run.]
## Evidence and Signals
- Fact:
- Pattern:
- Hypothesis, confidence:
## Recommended Focus
1. [Highest leverage focus]
2. [Second focus]
3. [Third focus, optional]
## Working Artifact
[Agenda, memo, brief, plan, map, script, or tracker depending on the workflow.]
## Human Decisions Required
- [Decision/action the agent must not take.]
## Follow-Up
- Owner:
- Date:
- Success signal:
Expected deliverables:
- One-page weekly pack
- Top 5 risks/opportunities
- Decision queue
- Open-loop tracker
- Suggested meeting agenda
See assets/output-template.md for a reusable version.
Human Decision Boundary
The agent may prepare, synthesize, compare, draft, and track. The agent must not cross these boundaries:
- Do not invent explanations for metric movement
- Do not turn every weak signal into a crisis
- Leader owns narrative, escalation, and prioritisation
Stop and ask for explicit approval before sending messages, changing employment status, making customer promises, publishing, sharing sensitive information, or committing budget/resources.
Quality Bar
A strong output for this skill:
- Separates facts, interpretations, hypotheses, and recommendations.
- Names uncertainty and missing context instead of hiding it.
- Produces an artifact a busy leader can use immediately.
- Reduces avoidance, ambiguity, rework, or decision drift.
- Makes the human judgment boundary visible.
- Includes concrete follow-up with owner, date, and success signal where applicable.
Failure Modes
Watch for these mistakes:
- Overconfident claims from thin notes or sentiment.
- Generic management advice with no artifact.
- Automating sensitive judgment instead of preparing it.
- Producing too many options without a recommended default.
- Treating leadership as text generation rather than accountability.
References
- Grove: managerial output through teams
- Operating review best practices
- Decision-log and action-log practices
For the shared methodology spine, see ../../docs/SOURCE-SPINE.md.