Smart Workers Use These 5 AI Hacks to Increase Productivity and Reduce Stress

While AI can be a helpful tool for writing emails, it has the potential to do much more to help you achieve your objectives, impress your supervisor, and reduce your stress levels.

Since its inception, I have witnessed both the correct and incorrect ways to use generative AI as an OpenAI GPT-4 education partner via Khan Academy, the author of the best-selling AI for job searching book on Amazon, and the official AI career trainer for institutions including Harvard Business School and the University of Texas.

Smart professionals use these five AI hacks to maximize their job performance and simplify their lives:

1. Do your research

To ensure the success of your company's big event, it is crucial to customize it according to your customers' preferences.

Instead of making assumptions, why not ask customers directly about their interests?

"A market research project or a research agency may require money and time that we don't have, which can be frustrating to think about."

To accomplish a task using Google Forms, click the AI button at the top of the page and tell the tool what you need help with.

You can easily create a survey and send it out with just a few clicks.

You can adjust the prompt to create whatever kind of survey you need.

To measure customer feedback, you might want to use a prompt like the following:

If you're an HR professional and tired of conducting unattended training sessions, consider starting with a prompt.

2. Mine your data

With generative AI, you can now easily summarize relevant feedback using charts and tables.

The survey results are promising, but the thousands of comments make it difficult to analyze the data.

"You may feel stuck now, thinking that the comments contain valuable insights but you lack the ability to read through them all and extract the key takeaways."

To open your Form responses in a Google Sheet, click the Gemini icon and ask the tool to:

Rewrite: "I am an AI language model that can assist you with any questions you may have." Alternative: "I am an AI language model that can help you with any queries you may have."

If you are responsible for social media management and find it challenging to make sense of numerous posts, you could use this request.

3. Get organized

My former colleague with ADHD demonstrated how generative AI can be an excellent organizer and project planner, even if you don't have ADHD.

The survey revealed that customers desire an interactive networking event, so let's use ChatGPT to generate a specific prompt.

Rewritten: AI can not only generate text but also display it in various formats, such as tables, and enable the user to export the data in files.

You can easily upload a file into your favorite project planning tool like Trello or Asana by telling the AI to do so.

4. Prepare a presentation

To ensure a successful networking event, consider creating a step-by-step slide deck to guide attendees.

Instead of urgently requesting your designer to create a presentation, visit Canva, create a new presentation, and enter the prompt under the Design tab.

In a matter of seconds, you'll have a customizable deck that you can modify to your liking.

Original: "I need to prepare for my presentation on the benefits of using renewable energy sources." Rewritten: "My presentation on the advantages of renewable energy sources requires preparation."

5. Measure your impact

The event was a huge success, and several attendees expressed their gratitude for the planning.

Why not show the impact of your work on your organization's bottom line by drawing a direct line between your attendees' experiences?

Instead of manually analyzing the data, you can use AI data science techniques to identify patterns and relationships in the spreadsheet that tracks customer participation and revenue earned from the event in the three months following it.

Upload the file to ChatGPT and plug in the following request:

In a matter of seconds, ChatGPT will generate a statistical correlation using Python code.

Rewritten sentence: Can you provide me with the rewritten content?

The evidence generated from this analysis can strengthen your argument to your boss beyond just relying on your word.

Jeremy Schifeling, the founder of The Job Insiders, offers career technology training to hundreds of top universities and business schools. He is also the author of "Career Coach GPT: The Complete Guide to ChatGPT Resume, Cover Letter, Interview, and Job Search Success," and shares his latest career and AI hacks on LinkedIn.

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