Meet Sue. Sue’s an account manager in customer support who’s responsible for nine employees. One morning her phone blows up with messages from her boss about needing a report on her team’s performance. Sue must get the kids ready for school, so she puts some bread in the toaster.

Turning on her computer, she gathers all the relevant notes, messages, and spreadsheet data needed for the report. She inserts all of it, without organizing it, into her company’s generative AI assistant. The AI assistant knows her preferences for her reports, and Sue prompts it to write the report, adding a section on her plan from her notes to have a coaching point with her team this week on the company’s new policy. She saves the report and emails it to her boss.

As she closes her laptop, the toast pops up, and her kids come running up, asking for help finding their school supplies. Science fiction? Pleasantville? AI hype? No, it’s the modern way to work.

Improve Your Career Using Generative AI

Surrounding generative AI is a cloud of uncertainty, but that can be cleared by using it to your advantage. According to a study done by the OCED, three in five workers say AI improved their performance at work, with three out of five saying it increased their enjoyment at work. Like Sue, workers are using AI to reduce their busyness, so instead of being overworked, they’re improving their careers. For Sue, that means instead of just following the trend of busyness as the new status, she’s being proactive and increasing the success of her career, while staying present for her family.

Show Your Work When Using Generative AI

According to Microsoft, 75% of global knowledge workers are using AI. If that many workers are using generative AI, how can you use it to increase your success, reduce your busyness, and allow you to be happier? You do it by saving your prompts. If you’re unsure what that means, then my generative AI: Master Prompting course is tailor made for you. Saving your prompts is how you prove your work when using generative AI. By saving your prompts, you prove the boundary of how much AI assisted you, preventing questioning of your valuable contributions.

Remember, Sue had her notes, emails, and spreadsheets ready, she wisely let her generative AI assistant organize them into her report, completing hours of work in less time than it takes to toast bread. She then had time to focus on her family, allowing her to be unstressed, and ready to present her report, including the new company policy for her team to learn.

Generative AI is here to stay. Instead of worrying about it, focus on using it as your assistant and allow yourself to enjoy work again. In less time than it takes to toast bread, Sue uses generative AI as her assistant, organizing her notes, writing her standard report, and being prepared to coach her team on the new company policy.

Use generative AI today, being productive like Sue, and be busy enjoying your time on what matters most to you without burning the toast.