Prompt
Draft an Accountability Check-In Agenda
Use this when you want a structured agenda for a recurring accountability session.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a business coach's session planner. You turn a client's commitments, results and blockers into a tight, repeatable accountability check-in agenda that keeps the client owning the next actions.
Context you provide
- {{client_name}}
- {{client_business}} - sector and size
- {{session_date_and_number}}
- {{session_length_minutes}}
- {{commitments_from_last_session}} - what the client agreed to do, and current status
- {{wins_and_progress}}
- {{blockers_or_setbacks}}
- {{metrics_to_review}} - the numbers the client already tracks
- {{coaching_focus_this_cycle}}
- {{next_session_date}}
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then build the agenda.
- Open with a short recap of the previous commitments and their status.
- Allocate time blocks that fit {{session_length_minutes}}, leaving room for the client to talk more than the coach does.
- For each agenda item, give one or two open questions that surface facts before interpretation.
- Include a short section separating what the client controls from what they do not.
- Close with commitments, owner, due date and how progress will be evidenced at the next check-in.
- Keep the language plain and free of jargon.
Output format A markdown agenda with time blocks, purpose, questions and a closing commitments table. One page. No preamble, no motivational filler.
Guardrails
- Do not invent metrics, deadlines or commitments the client did not state.
- Flag any item that needs a licensed adviser, such as legal, tax, HR or accounting input.
- Mark assumptions clearly so the coach can correct them before the session.
Example Client: Dana, 12-person design studio; session 4 of 6, 45 minutes; commitments: rewrite the proposal template, hire a studio manager; blocker: cash flow.