Week 4 · spine
Power Skill: Research & Pre-Meeting Intelligence
Walk into every meeting as the most-prepared person in the room.
The first power-skill week. Research is something every role needs, so everyone builds the Research Brief Skill together — then applies it through their lens (Sales: account/prospect · Operations: vendor · Legal: counterparty/clause · Marketing: market/competitor). Content is authored once and reused across roles.
The wow: calendar-triggered auto-prep — a sourced one-pager on the person you’re about to meet, blending public signal with your own relationship history. The D’s are Description (asking well) and Discernment (judging sources — no link, no claim).
Learner goals
- Build the Research Brief Skill with sourcing and an 'unverified' rule.
- Blend public signal with your own history (email/Drive).
- Auto-prep from your calendar: 'prep me for my next meeting'.
- Apply the research skill through your role lens.
What you set up live
- Build the Research Brief Skill from the starter.
- Connect it to your calendar for automatic pre-meeting prep.
- Run your role-specific research variant on a real upcoming meeting.
Run-of-show · 180 min
The session timeline. The amber row is where the wow lands.
| Time | Segment | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 · 12m | Welcome + the research power skill | Talk |
| 0:12 · 33m | Build-along: build the Research Skill (Customize → Skills → Create with Claude) | Build-along |
| 0:45 · 10m | Break | Break |
| 0:55 · 35m | Build-along: Claude in Chrome research + auto-prep from your calendar ✦ wow | Build-along |
| 1:30 · 45m | Role-lens breakout: apply research to your world | Breakout |
| 2:15 · 30m | Watch-outs: triggering tools, sourcing, and the placeholder trap | Screen-share |
| 2:45 · 15m | Project handoff (Description + Discernment) | Talk |
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