{ "schema": "aiblocks-page/1", "id": "executive-office-work-planner", "type": "skill", "name": "Executive office work planner", "summary": "Prepare a leader's decision brief, triage list or handover note. You get facts, options and a recommendation marked as advice.", "headline": "Executive office work planner", "subhead": "Tell it who decides, what is at stake and which records you have. It separates facts from guesses, lays out the options and flags who owns the next call. You get a decision brief, triage list, calendar review or handover note for the leader.", "job": { "id": "organise-work", "name": "Run meetings, notes and plans" }, "level": "intermediate", "thinking": "high", "tested": true, "updated": "2026-11-03", "first_published": "2026-10-25", "inputs": [ { "type": "question", "required": true, "label": "Question", "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like" }, { "type": "source_text", "required": false, "label": "Source text", "what": "a long source in full: an article, a video or talk transcript, or notes from a book, with its title, author and link" } ], "outputs": [ { "type": "plan", "required": true, "label": "Plan", "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step" } ], "you_give": [ "The leader who decides, and what they are deciding or reviewing", "What you may decide yourself, and what must go to them or others", "The records you have, such as notes, emails or numbers", "Commitments already agreed, with an owner and date (optional)", "The deadline for the decision (optional)" ], "you_get": [ "A decision brief with facts, assumptions, options and a marked recommendation", "Or a triage list with a route and owner for each item", "Or a calendar review with keep, shorten or drop calls", "Or a handover record of decisions and open commitments", "A list of what is missing before the leader can decide" ], "use_when": [ "Your leader must pick between options and wants one page they can decide from.", "Too much lands on the leader's desk and you need a clear route for each item.", "A leader moves on and the decisions and open commitments must be written down.", "You are asked to cut the leader's calendar and want a reasoned list, not a guess." ], "skip_when": [ "You want action items from a meeting: use the Action item tracker keeper.", "You need a short prep sheet for one meeting: use the Executive meeting brief writer.", "You want a one-page summary of a long report: use the Executive summary writer.", "You want a steady weekly update to your boss: use the Weekly status update writer." ], "output_sample": { "input": [ "The leader and the decision they face", "The limits of what you may decide for them", "Your records, such as notes, emails and numbers", "Any commitments already agreed (optional)" ], "output": [ { "name": "Decision brief", "contains": "The call needed, verified facts, assumptions, unknowns, options with trade-offs, and a recommendation marked as advice." }, { "name": "Triage list", "contains": "Each incoming item, its owner and whether to decide, delegate or escalate it." }, { "name": "Calendar review", "contains": "Meetings to keep, shorten, delegate or drop, each with a reason." }, { "name": "Handover record", "contains": "Decisions made, open commitments with owners and dates, and who to ask." }, { "name": "Missing information", "contains": "What you still need before the leader can decide." } ] }, "output_shape": "DECISION BRIEF\nDecision needed: | Decision-maker: \nVerified facts: \nAssumptions and unknowns: \nOptions: \nRecommendation (advice only): \nReview path and next action: \nPrepared by: | Reviewed by: ", "how_to_use": [ "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. No code is needed, and the skill never changes your calendar or task tools.", "Paste the skill text. If you can add the skill folder, do so, so your AI can read its reference files.", "Say which task you need: a brief, triage, calendar review or handover. Paste what you have.", "Check the facts first. Anything you cannot source should be marked as an assumption or unknown.", "Give the draft to the leader to review. Share it only after a person approves it.", "Next, use the Executive action register keeper for commitments that have an owner and a date." ], "checks": [], "next": [ { "name": "Daily executive brief writer", "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-daily-digest", "why": "Daily executive brief writer" } ], "source": { "by": "Magnus Hedemark", "repo": "magnus919/agent-skills", "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/chief-of-staff-methodology", "licence": "MIT", "original_name": "chief-of-staff-methodology", "commit": "92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3" }, "credits": [ { "title": "chief-of-staff-methodology skill", "by": "Magnus Hedemark", "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/chief-of-staff-methodology", "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name and added a short run guide at the top of the skill. We added notes marked \"Added by AI Blocks\" so it works in this library. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps. We refreshed those generated sections from the catalogue inputs and next-step links." } ], "files": [ "evals/evals.json", "LICENSE.md", "README.md", "references/executive-briefing.md", "references/force-multiplication.md", "references/gatekeeping-and-triage.md", "references/institutional-memory.md", "references/meeting-and-calendar-triage.md", "references/organizational-sensing.md", "references/source-index.md" ], "links": { "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-office-work-planner", "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-office-work-planner.md", "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-office-work-planner.json", "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-office-work-planner/SKILL.md", "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-office-work-planner.zip", "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/executive-office-work-planner", "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/executive-office-work-planner", "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp" } }