The Brief · 001
A real problem.
Your move.
The part of the job that never comes with a template: working out what is actually happening before you decide what to build. One realistic request per cycle. No answer key.
Brief 001 · Training request
“We need manager feedback training.”
Engagement scores say people are not getting useful feedback from their managers. Leadership wants a mandatory 30-minute course for all 1,200 people managers. They want it live in three weeks.
The request arrived with the solution already attached.
Survey results show a feedback problem. They do not tell you why the behavior is not happening, whether managers lack skill, or whether a course would change anything.
ConstraintsYour move
Before you open a build tool, book the SME, or write a single objective: what do you need to know?
Learning Rewired lens: the point is not to prove training is unnecessary. It is to earn the right to recommend it.
The archive
Earlier briefs, still worth working.
Nothing expires here. Each one is a different flavor of the same trap: a solution arriving before an investigation.
“New hires are not ramping fast enough.”
Six weeks of onboarding content, and the sales team still cannot answer a pricing question in week seven.
Work this brief →“Legal wants everyone retrained.”
One incident, one policy breach, and a request to put 4,000 people through the same annual module again.
Work this brief →“Can we just build it with AI?”
Production time drops to two days. Nobody has asked whether the intervention was right in the first place.
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