The checklist that exists but nobody opens it.

The scenario:

Somewhere in your shared drive is a beautifully built onboarding checklist, or a change management checklist, or a client offboarding checklist. It covers every step. Nobody follows it, because it lives three folders deep and opening it takes longer than simply doing the task from memory. 

A checklist that requires effort to find gets skipped exactly when it matters most, under time pressure. 

The prompt:

You are building a checklist people will actually use instead of ignore. 

Context: [the checklist content, where it currently lives, and how people are supposed to find it] 

Build: 

  • The five steps that matter most, condensed from the full checklist 


  • A version short enough to paste directly into the ticket or task, not linked to from three clicks away