Six prompts that make your weekly planning run itself

Planning meetings fail for boring reasons. Nobody read the updates, half the work is invisible, and the first twenty minutes go on reconstructing last week.

The Monday six

1. Summarise what actually shipped. Pulled from your tracker, not from memory.

2. Flag what slipped and why. One line each, no post-mortems.

3. List what is blocked on a person. The quietest source of delay.

4. Draft this week's priorities. A proposal to argue with, not a decision.

5. Name the risk nobody is watching. The prompt people find most useful.

6. Write the update for everyone else. So the rest of the company reads one paragraph instead of a board.

Why it works

None of these prompts make a decision. They remove the twenty minutes of reconstruction, so the hour you kept is spent arguing about the right things.