For the HR leader who carries the conversations no one else wants to have.
A prompt playbook for performance and feedback conversations. Get clear and find your words before you walk in, whether it's yours to deliver or a manager's you're coaching through.
Instant access. Works in any AI tool.
You've rewritten the message four times and it still isn't right.
You know the feedback is fair. You know it matters. But every version comes out either so softened the point disappears, or so flat it reads like a warning letter. So you sit with it, rewording, while the conversation waits.
That isn't a skill gap. It's the cost of caring how it lands.
This isn't a script library.
Scripts make you sound like someone reading a script. This is something else. Eight prompts that turn AI into a thinking partner for the hardest part of the work, getting clear before you speak and finding language that sounds like you. The judgment stays yours. The wording gets easier.
Eight prompts, arranged in the order a real conversation unfolds.
Get clear before you speak
- Name the real problem
- Separate what happened from the story you're telling about it
- Pressure-test your own read
Build the conversation
- Open without burying the message
- Map the reactions and your responses
- Find your actual words
Put it on paper
- Write documentation that's fair and specific
After the room
- Plan the follow-through
Each prompt comes with the thinking behind it and notes on what to listen for in the response, so you know when the AI is doing real work and when it's filling space.
Made for the practitioner, not the beginner.
This is for HR leaders with the experience to know these conversations matter and the standards to want them done right. You bring the judgment. The playbook takes the weight off the wording and the prep, so your attention goes where it belongs. On the person in front of you.
From rewording it at 11pm to walking in steady.
The shift isn't that you become someone who finds these easy. It's that you stop carrying them alone. You prepare faster, and you walk in saying the true thing in words that sound like you on your steadiest day.
● Works in Claude or any AI tool you already use, ChatGPT included. No new software, no technical setup.
I'm Kimberly Washburn. I spent more than thirty years in HR and leadership, mostly across healthcare and nonprofit work, with a formative stretch at Microsoft along the way. I hold a doctorate in business administration. I built Aveliara AI Studio to help experienced HR leaders use AI in their own voice, with their judgment intact. This playbook is one piece of a larger practice I teach, the CLEAR Method, and it's the kind of thing I reach for myself. These don't get easier because you care less. They get easier because you stop facing them alone. That's what I built this for, and I'm in your corner on it.
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Eight prompts, each with the thinking behind it and notes on what to listen for. Yours for $47.
Get the Playbook ($47)Instant access. Works in any AI tool.
Good to know
Do I need to be technical to use this? +
No. If you can copy a prompt and paste it into a chat box, you can use every piece of this.
Which AI tools does it work with? +
All of them. I use Claude. It works the same in ChatGPT or whatever you already have open.
What kinds of conversations does it cover? +
Performance and feedback. The hard review, and the pattern you've been avoiding naming. It's built for those specifically, not terminations or workplace investigations.
Will it write the conversation for me? +
No, and that's the point. It helps you get clear and find your words. The read on the person stays yours, where it belongs.