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AI at work

AI at the office, no tech skills needed

Emails, meetings, reports, spreadsheets: save time every day with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini. 140 ready-made prompts, 14-day plan.

  • 70 real-life cases
  • 140 prompts
  • 10 automations
  • 128 pages
  • PDF, English
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Who it’s for

Employees, assistants, managers and support staff who want to save time with AI, with no technical background.

What you will do

  • Start safely: what never to paste into an AI, how to check facts and follow company rules
  • Use a simple 5-block formula for a good prompt, and fix a weak one
  • Apply it to your real work: emails, meetings, reports, spreadsheets, presentations, customer replies, organization

Also included

  • 70 real-life cases and 140 ready-made prompts
  • 10 simple automations
  • A 14-day plan and printable memo sheets

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Table of contents

“I want to…” — the index by needp. 6
Introductionp. 7
Part 1 — Getting started safely p. 8
  • Choosing your tool: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Geminip. 9
  • Creating an account and taking your first stepsp. 10
  • Security (1/4): what you should never paste into an AIp. 11
  • Security (2/4): anonymizing a text in 2 minutesp. 12
  • Security (3/4): checking facts — AI can make things upp. 13
  • Security (4/4): company rules and laws — the universal frameworkp. 14
  • Asking your first real question (and following up)p. 15
  • Organizing your conversations and protecting your historyp. 16
  • Free or paid: the honest choicep. 17
  • Your starter checklist (to tick off)p. 18
  • Working with images and scanned documentsp. 19
Part 2 — The method p. 20
  • The formula for a good prompt: 5 blocks, no more, no lessp. 21
  • Blocks 1 and 2: role and contextp. 22
  • Blocks 3 and 4: task and formatp. 22
  • Block 5: constraints — and the power of examplesp. 23
  • The 5 beginner mistakes (and their immediate fix)p. 24
  • Iterating: the art of the follow-up (7 follow-ups that change everything)p. 25
  • Asking for a plan, a critique, a check: 3 simple advanced usesp. 26
  • Workshop: turn a weak prompt into a pro promptp. 27
Chapter 1 — Emails p. 28
  • Case 1 — Politely saying nop. 29
  • Case 2 — The follow-up email that stays friendlyp. 30
  • Case 3 — Summarizing a 23-email thread in 5 linesp. 31
  • Case 4 — Turning your notes into a clean emailp. 32
  • Case 5 — Delivering bad news without putting people on the defensivep. 33
  • Case 6 — The thank-you email that doesn’t ring falsep. 34
  • Case 7 — Asking for more time without losing credibilityp. 35
  • Case 8 — Fixing your draft without changing your voicep. 36
  • Case 9 — An email subject line that makes people want to open itp. 37
  • Case 10 — Translating an email while keeping a professional tonep. 38
  • Case 11 — Replying to an aggressive email without losing your temperp. 39
  • Case 12 — The out-of-office email that avoids emergencies on your returnp. 40
Chapter 2 — Meetings & minutes p. 41
  • Case 13 — Meeting minutes in 2 minutesp. 42
  • Case 14 — An agenda that fits the time availablep. 43
  • Case 15 — Turning a transcript into decisions and actionsp. 44
  • Case 16 — The questions to ask before the meetingp. 45
  • Case 17 — Following up on agreed actions (without policing)p. 46
  • Case 18 — Minutes for the absentees (a 1-minute read)p. 47
  • Case 19 — Comparing two proposals and preparing your recommendationp. 48
  • Case 20 — Preparing your answers to likely objectionsp. 49
  • Case 21 — The one-page meeting brief for your managerp. 50
  • Case 22 — Closing a meeting that is going in circlesp. 51
Chapter 3 — Reports & long documents p. 52
  • Case 23 — Summarizing a 40-page document into 1 useful pagep. 53
  • Case 24 — Turning a dry report into an executive summaryp. 54
  • Case 25 — Extracting dates, figures and commitments from a documentp. 55
  • Case 26 — Rewriting a text that is too long while keeping the essentialsp. 56
  • Case 27 — Comparing two versions of a documentp. 57
  • Case 28 — A report outline before you write the first linep. 58
  • Case 29 — Checking the consistency of a long documentp. 59
  • Case 30 — Turning loose notes into a structured documentp. 60
  • Case 31 — The FAQ built from an official documentp. 61
  • Case 32 — Adapting the same text for 3 different audiencesp. 62
Chapter 4 — Excel & spreadsheets p. 63
  • Case 33 — The formula explained as if to a friendp. 64
  • Case 34 — Cleaning an exported list (duplicates, spaces, case)p. 65
  • Case 35 — Understanding what your figures are saying (no statistician needed)p. 66
  • Case 36 — Building the tracking table you needp. 67
  • Case 37 — Spotting anomalies before they become problemsp. 68
  • Case 38 — Turning a list into a summary table with totalsp. 69
  • Case 39 — Writing the comment that goes with a tablep. 70
  • Case 40 — Converting data into clean text (or the reverse)p. 71
  • Case 41 — Explaining a gap between two figures without panickingp. 72
  • Case 42 — Preparing data for a chart that can be understoodp. 73
Chapter 5 — Presentations p. 74
  • Case 43 — Structuring a presentation before touching the slidesp. 75
  • Case 44 — One slide = one message (rewriting overloaded slides)p. 76
  • Case 45 — The script you will say (without reading it off your slides)p. 77
  • Case 46 — Turning a report into a 10-slide presentationp. 78
  • Case 47 — Preparing the closing slide that gets a decisionp. 79
  • Case 48 — Answering questions without getting trappedp. 80
  • Case 49 — Adapting your presentation to a different audiencep. 81
  • Case 50 — Plan B: presenting without slides (breakdown, spoken version)p. 82
Chapter 6 — Client replies p. 83
  • Case 51 — Replying to an unhappy client (without apologizing for everything)p. 84
  • Case 52 — Saying no to an out-of-scope request (and keeping the client)p. 85
  • Case 53 — The customizable standard reply (template + variables)p. 86
  • Case 54 — Explaining an administrative or regulatory refusalp. 87
  • Case 55 — Replying when you don’t have the answer yetp. 88
  • Case 56 — Welcoming positive feedback and asking for a review (at the right time)p. 89
  • Case 57 — The welcome email that starts the relationship wellp. 90
  • Case 58 — Answering a vague request by asking the right questionsp. 91
  • Case 59 — Announcing a change (price, procedure, hours) without panicp. 92
  • Case 60 — The follow-up message after a problem is resolvedp. 93
Chapter 7 — Organization & productivity p. 94
  • Case 61 — Planning your day from a pile of tasksp. 95
  • Case 62 — Prioritizing when everything seems urgentp. 96
  • Case 63 — Turning a meeting (or a day) into a list of dated actionsp. 97
  • Case 64 — Preparing your week on Friday (in 10 minutes, stopwatch in hand)p. 98
  • Case 65 — Emptying your inbox (a sorting method, not magic)p. 99
  • Case 66 — The weekly progress update your manager will actually readp. 100
  • Case 67 — Delegating a task with a brief that avoids back-and-forthp. 101
  • Case 68 — Preparing a review meeting (annual, follow-up, scoping) without stressp. 102
  • Case 69 — Learning a new subject in 1 hour (express learning plan)p. 103
  • Case 70 — Your end-of-day review in 5 lines (closing ritual)p. 104
Part 4 — 10 simple automations p. 105
  • Automating without coding: what is really possiblep. 106
  • Automation 1 — Summarizing your long morning email threadsp. 107
  • Automation 2 — Preparing your day in 5 minutesp. 108
  • Automation 3 — Your library of reply templatesp. 109
  • Automation 4 — Sorting incoming requests by real urgencyp. 110
  • Automation 5 — Monitoring: summarizing articles to keep only what’s usefulp. 111
  • Automation 6 — Express minutes right after the meetingp. 112
  • Automation 7 — Preparing a sheet before a client or partner meetingp. 113
  • Automation 8 — Express proofreading before any important sendp. 114
  • Automation 9 — Your weekly update as a chain (Friday, 10 minutes)p. 115
  • Automation 10 — Translating and adapting your recurring documentsp. 116
Part 5 — 14-day plan p. 117
  • Days 1 to 3 — Seeing, risk-freep. 118
  • Days 4 to 6 — Emails and meetingsp. 119
  • Days 7 to 9 — Documents and tablesp. 120
  • Days 10 to 12 — Clients and organizationp. 121
  • Days 13 and 14 — Automating and anchoringp. 122
Part 6 — Printable memo sheets p. 123
  • Sheet 1 — The formula of a good prompt (to print)p. 124
  • Sheet 2 — Security checklist before pasting (to print)p. 125
  • Sheet 3 — 20 universal prompts (1/2, to print)p. 126
  • Sheet 4 — 20 universal prompts (2/2, to print)p. 127
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