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Your first week with AI.
One useful task at a time.

Seven small practice sessions. A plan you can follow, prompts you can adapt, and worksheets that help you see what actually worked.

Put your practice kit together.

Keep the existing 8-page AI at Work Starter Kit alongside this seven-day plan. Add the prompt library for tasks you encounter during the week.

Day 1

List five tasks you repeat. Pick one with clear inputs, a result you can check, and a low cost of error.

Task: ___
Current effort: ___ minutes
A useful result contains: ___

Day 2

Give the AI your goal, source material, audience, constraints, and desired format. Ask it to mark missing information.

Goal: ___
Audience: ___
Inputs I can share: ___
Output: ___
Do not invent: ___

Day 3

Compare the output with your inputs. Verify key claims and numbers; check what was omitted.

Verified: ___
Wrong or missing: ___
My correction: ___

Day 4

Turn permitted notes into a realistic day plan. Include capacity, fixed commitments, buffers, and tasks to defer.

Fixed commitments: ___
Available time: ___
Priorities: ___
What can wait: ___

Day 5

Describe a decision neutrally. Compare alternatives using the same criteria and request the evidence that would change the answer.

Decision: ___
Options: ___
Evidence: ___
Unknowns: ___
Next check: ___

Day 6

Run the task on a second input. Note where it fails, who reviews it, and what should happen when information is unavailable.

Trigger: ___
Input: ___
Review owner: ___
Stop condition: ___
Output destination: ___

Day 7

Compare total effort, including briefing, review and rework. Keep, simplify or stop the workflow based on the result.

Usual effort: ___
AI setup: ___
Review/rework: ___
Total: ___
Quality: ___
Keep/change/stop: ___

Bring your workbook to a 90-minute AI Working Session. Choose one achievable outcome and build a process you can keep.