The AI Prompt That Maps Employee Skill Gaps in One Session
Turn performance reviews into development plans without scheduling another meeting
Hey Adopter,
Performance reviews identify problems. Development plans fix them. Most managers never close that gap.
You read the review, spot three skill issues, then stall. Which one blocks current work? Which affects the team? What can you afford? The questions pile up. The plan never gets written.
This prompt fixes it. Paste it into Claude or ChatGPT, answer questions one at a time, and get a prioritized development plan tied to your budget and timeline. Takes 15 minutes. No templates. No frameworks to remember.
How it works
Standard prompts fail because you dump everything at once and forget critical details. Budget limits. Time constraints. Career goals. The AI fills gaps with assumptions, gives you a $5,000 certification plan when you have $500.
This prompt interviews you instead. Six categories, one question at a time: employee basics, performance data, role requirements, development goals, available resources, organizational needs.
You answer. It confirms. It moves forward only when it has what it needs.
The structure catches missing pieces during collection, not after. Say the employee wants leadership roles but their gap is technical execution. The AI spots that tension before building unusable recommendations.
Result: complete analysis in one session.
What you get
The output includes five sections:
Executive summary states the top priorities and reasoning.
Prioritized skill gaps ranks each issue by impact. Does this gap block current work or only future advancement? Is it affecting team dynamics? Each gap links to specific review evidence with targeted recommendations.
Development plan timeline maps activities across quarters with clear milestones.
Investment summary breaks down time cost, financial cost, expected return. Recommendations stay within your stated constraints.
Monitoring plan defines tracking metrics, check-in frequency, decision points for course correction.
One conversation produces a complete analysis you can defend to leadership.
Which requires clean inputs.
The full prompt
Copy everything below. Paste it into Claude or ChatGPT. Answer the questions as they come.