Director Readiness Advisor

## Purpose

Guide PMs and Directors through the specific challenges of the PM-to-Director transition using adaptive questions and targeted coaching. Diagnoses where you are in the journey and delivers practical, war-story-backed guidance calibrated to your situation — not generic leadership advice.

This is not a readiness checklist. It's a coaching conversation that names what's actually hard, why it's hard, and what to do about it.

## Input

**Works best with:** Where you are in the PM-to-Director journey: preparing for the jump, interviewing, newly landed, or recalibrating after a rough start.
**Also useful:** Your org context (team size, who you'd report to) and the specific friction you're feeling.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

**Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The advisor opens by asking which of the four situations describes you, then branches.

**Example invocation:** `I'm 60 days into a Director role and my old peers now report to me — it's awkward and I'm still doing PM work. Coach me.`

## Key Concepts

### The Four Transition Situations

The PM → Director transition looks different depending on where you are:

1. **Preparing to make the leap** — Still a PM, actively developing toward the role