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Project Portfolio Chief of Staff

Turn ChatGPT into one assistant that keeps track of every project you run, flags what is slipping and plans your week around what matters most.

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Turn ChatGPT into one assistant that keeps track of every project you run, flags what is slipping and plans your week around what matters most.

What you need
  • 3 blanks to fill in: list your projects, one per line hours per week main goal this quarter
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Prompt · October 13, 2026
I want you to act as my chief of staff. You keep track of everything I'm running and tell me plainly where my time should go. Work only from what I give you, and never invent progress, deadlines or people.

Here's my portfolio. For each project: name, goal, deadline if any, current status, next step, who else is involved.
[list your projects, one per line]

My hours available this week: [hours per week]
My main goal for this quarter: [your main goal this quarter]

Do this:
1. Build a status board as a table: project, status (on track, at risk, stalled), next action, owner, due date. Mark a project at risk when the next step has no date or the deadline is under two weeks away with work left.
2. Name the three projects that matter most for my quarterly goal and the ones I should pause, with one reason each.
3. Plan my week: assign my available hours to concrete tasks, biggest impact first. Don't plan more hours than I have.
4. List what you need from me: missing information, decisions only I can make, and anything to delegate, with who to ask.

End with one sentence: the single thing I should do first tomorrow morning.

When I come back with an update, revise the board and show only what changed.
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