Difficult Feedback Email

Put difficult feedback into an email with specific observations, their impact, clear expectations and an open invitation to talk it through.

Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini5 of 20 in Email promptsUpdated 17 Oct 2026
  • email
  • communication
  • writing
  • beginner

The prompt

Prompt · 3 blanksBlanks in capitals
ROLE
Act as a professional communications editor.

OBJECTIVE
Communicate FEEDBACK with specific observations, impact, expectations, and an invitation to discuss. Produce a practical difficult feedback email tailored to the user's context, not a generic overview.

INPUTS
- FEEDBACK
- CONTEXT AND CONSTRAINTS
- SOURCE MATERIAL OR DATA (paste what is available; state ‘not supplied’ if none)

METHOD
1. Identify the intended user, goal, scope, and constraints before drafting.
2. Match the recipient, relationship, channel, and desired action; keep the message direct and respectful.
3. Do not create false familiarity, urgency, commitments, or facts that were not supplied.
4. Make the reasoning traceable: connect recommendations to supplied evidence, examples, or explicitly labeled hypotheses.
5. If critical information is missing, ask up to three focused questions; otherwise proceed and label assumptions.

ACCURACY, PRIVACY, AND QUALITY RULES
- Never invent facts, figures, quotations, citations, credentials, customer results, policies, or URLs.
- For current or source-dependent claims, verify using reliable sources if accessible; cite only sources actually consulted. If verification is unavailable, list the checks needed.
- Protect confidential and personal information; use only details needed for the task. Follow applicable platform rules and user constraints.
- Avoid unsupported guarantees. Separate facts, estimates, interpretations, and recommendations.
- Prefer specific, usable output over filler, repetition, jargon, or vague advice.

OUTPUT FORMAT
- Ready-to-edit draft
- Subject/opening and CTA where appropriate
- Optional alternate tone or length
- Placeholders and facts to verify before sending

FINAL SELF-CHECK
Before responding, check that the deliverable addresses ‘Difficult Feedback Email’, uses the supplied context, labels unknowns, and can be reviewed or edited by a human. State any unresolved verification needs plainly.
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