The AI-Augmented Professional Workflow
Automate the repetitive 80% of knowledge work so you out-produce everyone else in the room.
About this course
The premise is simple: most knowledge work is the same handful of repetitive tasks, and the grad who automates that 80% looks twice as capable as the one who doesn't. You'll build a personal AI workflow — reusable prompts, templates, and small automations — for drafting, inboxes, turning messy notes into clean documents, summarizing long material, and planning work. The edge it gives you: you walk into your first role already producing senior-level output volume, with a documented system you can show a manager. Every lesson ends in a saved, reusable asset, and you finish owning a personal workflow toolkit you demo in interviews and carry from job to job.
9 lessons
Find Your Repetitive 80%
Audit a real or expected workday and identify the tasks that repeat — the ones worth automating first. You'll produce a prioritized 'automation hit-list' that becomes the roadmap for the rest of the course and a smart thing to discuss in an interview.
Prompts That Behave Like Reliable Tools
Stop typing one-off questions. Learn to write structured, reusable prompts with clear role, inputs, and output format so you get consistent results every time. You'll save your first three reusable prompts into a personal prompt library.
Drafting at Speed: Emails, Memos, and Documents
Generate strong first drafts of common workplace writing in seconds, then edit to sound like you. You'll build a set of editable templates for the documents your field writes most, with a quick personal-voice editing pass.
Taming the Inbox and Meetings
Use AI to triage email, draft replies, and turn meeting transcripts or messy notes into clear action items and follow-ups. You'll produce a reusable 'notes-to-actions' workflow you can run after any meeting.
Notes and Transcripts into Polished Documents
Convert raw, scattered notes into structured reports, briefs, and summaries with consistent formatting. You'll build a document template + prompt pair that turns a 20-minute write-up into a 3-minute one.
Summarizing and Synthesizing Long Material Fast
Reliably condense long reports, threads, and documents into accurate executive summaries — and verify nothing important was dropped. You'll create a summarization workflow with a built-in accuracy check.
Planning, Tracking, and Project Hygiene with AI
Use AI to break projects into tasks, draft timelines, and write status updates. You'll produce a lightweight planning workflow that makes you look organized and on top of things from day one.
Working Safely: Privacy, Accuracy, and Judgment
Know what you can and can't paste into AI tools, how Canadian workplace privacy expectations apply, and how to keep a human check on accuracy. You'll write a one-page personal 'AI use policy' you can show an employer to prove you're a safe pair of hands.
Capstone: Your Personal Workflow Toolkit
Assemble your prompt library, templates, and automations into one documented toolkit. This is the artifact you demo in interviews — proof you don't just use AI, you've engineered a faster way to work that you can bring to their team.