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Risk and Blocker Sweep

Surface every risk, blocker, or escalation mentioned across your communications before it reaches you in a meeting.

The prompt
Search my emails and Teams messages from the last 10 days. Find every instance where someone raised a risk, blocker, issue, delay, concern, or escalation — including phrases like "at risk", "blocked", "delayed", "concerned about", "issue with", "problem", "stuck", "waiting on". For each one:
- What is the risk or blocker
- Who raised it and when
- What project or workstream it relates to
- Whether there is any evidence it has been resolved

Sort by date — most recent first. Do not infer — only surface items explicitly stated in the communications. Do not send or post anything.

How to use it

  1. 1Select Copy the prompt above.
  2. 2Paste it into Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  3. 3Replace anything in brackets with your own detail, then send it.

Copilot gathers and drafts. You verify and decide. Check every figure, name and date against the system it came from before you act on it.

Written for

Project Manager, Program Lead, PMO

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From the source collection in awesome-microsoft-copilot-prompts, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.