Automations

5 Prompts to Automate Your Week

Five ways to prepare your week ahead and review what was remaining from last week.

Summary

Five Monday prompts to start your week

Overview

Before you start

Why it matters

Begin your week strong with scheduled prompts ready for you to the minute you log in on Monday.

To schedule work prompts, make sure your work AI tool of choice is connected to your work email, messages, and documents.

If your company uses Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT: For any of these tools to work, ensure either your Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT instance can access your work ecosystem. If no connections were set up, no tool will have the proper context to plan your week ahead.

If your company uses Copilot: Your work instance will likely already be connected to your Microsoft ecosystem. That means your Copilot will have the necessary context to create outputs for the following prompts:

The 5 prompts

Chief of Staff

This prompt gives you your top three priorities for the week ahead.

It ranks each item by business impact, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and dependency.

For each item, it gives the owner, the deadline, why it matters, and your next action.

Copy prompt

Review my emails, Teams chats, meetings, files, and tasks from the last 7 days plus the next 14 days. Identify: overdue commitments, work due this week, upcoming deadlines, unanswered stakeholder requests, decisions waiting on me, unowned actions, and risks. Rank my Top 3 priorities by business impact, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and dependency. For each give owner, deadline, why it matters, and my next action. Separate Confirmed / Needs Validation. End with Executive Attention Required.
Copy prompt
Review my emails, Teams chats, meetings, files, and tasks from the last 7 days plus the next 14 days. Identify: overdue commitments, work due this week, upcoming deadlines, unanswered stakeholder requests, decisions waiting on me, unowned actions, and risks. Rank my Top 3 priorities by business impact, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and dependency. For each give owner, deadline, why it matters, and my next action. Separate Confirmed / Needs Validation. End with Executive Attention Required.
Copy prompt
Review my emails, Teams chats, meetings, files, and tasks from the last 7 days plus the next 14 days. Identify: overdue commitments, work due this week, upcoming deadlines, unanswered stakeholder requests, decisions waiting on me, unowned actions, and risks. Rank my Top 3 priorities by business impact, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and dependency. For each give owner, deadline, why it matters, and my next action. Separate Confirmed / Needs Validation. End with Executive Attention Required.
Meeting Prepper
Save your mental bandwidth by prepping for the meetings you actually should care about. 

This prompt selects the three to five meetings where preparation may be necessary, and develops that plan for you. 

For each one, AI will read the prior meeting, the transcript, the emails, the Teams/Slack discussion, and the related files.
Copy prompt
Review this week's calendar. Select the 3–5 meetings where preparation would most improve the outcome. For each, review the prior meeting, transcript, emails, Teams discussions, and relevant files. Give me: objective, what changed, unresolved decisions, commitments made, stakeholder positions, risks, and 3 talking points/questions I should bring.
Copy prompt
Review this week's calendar. Select the 3–5 meetings where preparation would most improve the outcome. For each, review the prior meeting, transcript, emails, Teams discussions, and relevant files. Give me: objective, what changed, unresolved decisions, commitments made, stakeholder positions, risks, and 3 talking points/questions I should bring.
Copy prompt
Review this week's calendar. Select the 3–5 meetings where preparation would most improve the outcome. For each, review the prior meeting, transcript, emails, Teams discussions, and relevant files. Give me: objective, what changed, unresolved decisions, commitments made, stakeholder positions, risks, and 3 talking points/questions I should bring.
Project Manager
This prompt reports status for each active program.
 It covers statuses, milestones, decisions, owners, dependencies, and the next milestones. It also flags where your emails, meetings, and trackers disagree.
Copy prompt
Review active programs from the last 7 days. Report status, weekly changes, milestones, decisions, actions and owners, dependencies, risks, and next milestones. Flag contradictions across emails, meetings, and trackers.
Copy prompt
Review active programs from the last 7 days. Report status, weekly changes, milestones, decisions, actions and owners, dependencies, risks, and next milestones. Flag contradictions across emails, meetings, and trackers.
Copy prompt
Review active programs from the last 7 days. Report status, weekly changes, milestones, decisions, actions and owners, dependencies, risks, and next milestones. Flag contradictions across emails, meetings, and trackers.
Email Sweeper
Your email should never be on your to-do list.
Run this prompt to sort through unread or unattended emails and work messages. 
It prioritizes which emails need your attention because of deadlines. It will then recommend calendar reminders to set up, so that you won't miss a deliverable that week.
Copy prompt
Review the last 7 days of emails and Teams/Slack messages. Extract and deduplicate commitments, requests awaiting response, follow-ups, and deadlines. Show Action | Owner | Due date | Source | Recommended follow-up. Highlight overdue or near-term items and recommend calendar reminders.
Copy prompt
Review the last 7 days of emails and Teams/Slack messages. Extract and deduplicate commitments, requests awaiting response, follow-ups, and deadlines. Show Action | Owner | Due date | Source | Recommended follow-up. Highlight overdue or near-term items and recommend calendar reminders.
Copy prompt
Review the last 7 days of emails and Teams/Slack messages. Extract and deduplicate commitments, requests awaiting response, follow-ups, and deadlines. Show Action | Owner | Due date | Source | Recommended follow-up. Highlight overdue or near-term items and recommend calendar reminders.
Career Coach
Even if you're a star employee, few people will recognize your work, unless you advocate for yourself.
Every Monday, capture wins from the last week, while you still remember them. 
The annual-review prompt finds accomplishments from the last 7 days. 
Because it maps each win to your general annual goals, give AI goals you have so it can properly evaluate against them. 
Copy prompt
Review the last 7 days for accomplishments worth preserving. Capture problems solved, contributions, measurable impact, complexity, leadership, stakeholder influence, positive feedback, and evidence. Map results to annual goals and identify 1–3 high-value or promotion-level stories.
Copy prompt
Review the last 7 days for accomplishments worth preserving. Capture problems solved, contributions, measurable impact, complexity, leadership, stakeholder influence, positive feedback, and evidence. Map results to annual goals and identify 1–3 high-value or promotion-level stories.
Copy prompt
Review the last 7 days for accomplishments worth preserving. Capture problems solved, contributions, measurable impact, complexity, leadership, stakeholder influence, positive feedback, and evidence. Map results to annual goals and identify 1–3 high-value or promotion-level stories.