Putting it together: your AI workflow
Now turn these skills into a habit. A simple, repeatable workflow that saves you real time every week — with the human check built in.
🎬 Watch the video lesson, then work through the full written module below.
Your goals
- Build a repeatable AI workflow for your real tasks.
- Keep a human in the loop every time.
- Save your best prompts and measure time saved.
Build your workflow
List the tasks you repeat weekly (emails, summaries, reports). For each, write one good prompt (role, context, task, format). Save them. Now the work is ‘paste and check’, not ‘start from scratch’.
Human in the loop, always
AI drafts; you decide. Every output goes through the Module 1 test: would I put my name on it? That single habit keeps quality high and risk low.
The core habit from this course is…
Save prompts and measure
Keep a simple prompt library (a note or doc). Track roughly how much time you save each week — it’s motivating and shows your manager the value.
Build your prompt library
Your saved prompts are your real productivity asset. Keep them somewhere simple (a doc, a note app):
- Group by task: email, summaries, reports, content.
- Give each a clear name so you find it fast.
- Note the tool it works best in.
- Improve a prompt whenever you find a better version.
Measure the win — and where NOT to automate
Track roughly how much time each AI workflow saves per week. It motivates you and proves value to your manager.
Don't automate
Sensitive conversations, final decisions about people, anything legally binding, or work you can't verify. Speed is never worth a serious mistake.
Automate one weekly task
Your task (5–10 min)
Turn this course into a habit.
- Pick one task you do every week.
- Write one strong prompt for it (role, context, task, format).
- Save it to your prompt library with a clear name.
- Use it next week; time how long it takes now.
- Keep the ones that save the most time.
The weekly report
Wendy spends two hours every Monday writing a status report. She wants a workflow to cut that down.
What should they do? Think, then reveal.
Reveal the answer
Template + saved prompt + human check.
Wendy saves a prompt that turns her bullet updates into the report format, runs it each Monday, verifies the numbers, and sends. Two hours becomes twenty minutes.
Wendy’s saved weekly-report prompt
Copy this, adapt the brackets, save it in your prompt library
You are my writing assistant. Turn my rough bullet updates into a weekly status report for [my manager]. Format: 3 sections — Done, In progress, Blockers. Max 6 bullets each. UK English, plain and specific. Keep any numbers exactly as I wrote them. End with one line: “Ask of you this week: […]”. Here are my bullets: [paste your rough notes]
Wendy runs this every Monday, checks the numbers, and sends. Two hours became twenty minutes.
End-of-module quiz
6 questions. You need 4 to pass. Retake as often as you like.
Question 1
A good AI workflow starts by…
Question 2
The human-in-the-loop habit means…
Question 3
Why keep a prompt library?
Question 4
Which weekly task is the BEST first candidate for an AI workflow?
Question 5
Your saved prompt produced a weaker result this week. You should:
Question 6
The best evidence of your AI workflow's value to a manager is:
Remember this
- Turn repeat tasks into saved prompts — paste and check, not start over.
- Keep a human in the loop: AI drafts, you decide.
- Save your best prompts and track the time you save.
Finish all 8 modules and pass each quiz to earn your AI Skills for Work certificate of completion — shareable on your CV and LinkedIn. CPD accreditation is being arranged.