# Example: Director Readiness Coaching

## Scenario

You are moving from senior IC or group PM work into Director-level expectations.

## Prompt

```text
I'm a senior PM managing two PMs, strong on execution, weak on org influence, and interviewing for Director roles in 3 months. Coach me.
```

## Example Output Excerpt

```text
Diagnosis
- You are operating strongly at team altitude and inconsistently at org altitude.
- Your likely interview risk is not execution depth. It is proving that you can shape priorities across teams and influence without direct authority.

Gaps to close in the next 90 days
- Build 3 stories that show portfolio tradeoffs, not just feature delivery.
- Practice framing decisions in terms of company bets, not just team output.
- Create a weekly visibility loop with engineering, design, and GTM stakeholders.

Recommended plan
- Weeks 1-2: inventory past projects and rewrite 5 stories using org-level impact language.
- Weeks 3-6: run mock interviews focused on conflict, strategy, and delegation.
- Weeks 7-12: ship one visible cross-functional improvement and capture evidence of influence.
```

## Why This Gets Reused

Career coaching becomes sticky when the advice is specific to role altitude, not generic motivation.
