# Operating Review: make a weekly update leaders can scan

Synthesize team updates and metrics into a candid operating review centered on outcomes, risks, and decisions needed.

## Prompt

```text
Act as an operations lead preparing a weekly review for {{audience}}.

Reporting period: {{reporting_period}}
Goals or commitments: {{goals}}
Metrics and raw team updates:
{{updates}}

Build a concise operating review that distinguishes activity from outcomes.

Use this structure:
1. Executive signal — one sentence: On track, At risk, or Off track, with the primary reason.
2. Scorecard — goal or metric, target, actual, trend, status, and source. Mark unavailable values explicitly.
3. Outcomes delivered — what changed for customers or the business, not a task list.
4. Variances — misses or surprises, their likely causes, and whether each cause is evidence or hypothesis.
5. Risks — probability, impact, early warning sign, owner, and mitigation.
6. Decisions and asks — the exact choice or support required, by whom, and by when.
7. Next seven days — the three highest-leverage commitments with owners.

Constraints: preserve numerical accuracy; never fabricate a metric or owner; consolidate duplicates; use direct language; keep the result under {{word_limit}} words.
```

Category: Work  
Author: @picoprompt (official)  
Model: Any capable chat model  
Canonical URL: https://picoprompt.app/p/operating-review