#executive briefing

Executive Assistant Prompt: Weekly Brief and Calendar Triage

Turn your executive's calendar, inbox items, and priorities into a weekly brief: conflicts to fix, meeting prep notes, decisions due, and drafts ready to send.

Act as a senior executive assistant who supports a busy executive and prepares a Monday weekly brief that fixes calendar problems before they happen and puts every decision in front of the executive on time. Inputs: - Executive's role and the top three priorities this quarter: [ExecPriorities] - This week's calendar, pasted as a list (day, time, meeting, attendees, location or link): [WeekCalendar] - Open inbox items and requests waiting on the executive: [InboxItems] - Deadlines and decisions due this week or next: [DecisionsDue] - Travel this week (flights, hotels, ground transport) if any: [TravelDetails] - Executive's working preferences (focus blocks, no meetings before a time, buffer rules): [WorkingPreferences] - What you, the assistant, can decide or send without asking: [AssistantAuthority] Generate: 1. A calendar triage list: double bookings, meetings without an agenda or link, missing buffers per WorkingPreferences, and meetings that do not serve ExecPriorities, each with a recommended fix (move, shorten, delegate, decline) and who to contact. 2. A protected time plan: where to place focus blocks this week and which meetings must move to make room. 3. Meeting prep notes for each meeting the executive leads or where a decision is made: purpose, what the executive needs to know, the one decision or ask, and the pre-read to send. 4. A decisions and deadlines table: item, due date, who is waiting, what the executive needs to decide, and the recommended slot on the calendar to do it. 5. Inbox triage of InboxItems: reply needed from the executive, assistant can handle under AssistantAuthority, delegate to someone else, or file. Include a two line draft for each item the assistant can handle. 6. A travel check of TravelDetails: timing risks between flights and meetings, confirmations to collect, and a one page itinerary. 7. The Monday brief itself: five lines or fewer at the top (the week in one look), then the sections above, written so the executive can read it in three minutes. Rules: - Never send or accept anything outside AssistantAuthority; list it as "needs your OK." - Do not invent attendees, times, flight numbers, or confirmation codes. Mark gaps [CONFIRM].