Managers & executives
Use the AI assistant your employer allows for the reading and drafting around senior work: the decision memo, the questions a long report leaves open, the board paper, the change message, the case against your own strategy. Decisions, the source of every number, anything about a person and anything sent outside stay with you and the people your company names.
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9 short lessons · 58 min of audio · a final exam and a course certificate
Use an assistant for the reading and drafting around senior work — memos, reports, board papers, budgets, announcements and strategy — while the decisions, the sources of the numbers and anything about a person stay with you.
the decision memo with the recommendation left blank, the questions a long report does not answer, and the board paper whose first line names the ask: The decision on one page; Questions, not a summary; A paper the board can act on
the decisions log that says what would reopen a decision, every number ticked against its source, and the change your managers hear before their teams: The decision that comes back; The words around the numbers; Through your managers first
the work mapped without names when jobs are at stake, the strategy the tool argues against but never chooses, and the page with the red list filled in: The work, not the people; The strategy is still yours; The leader's page
One side of one page, kept where you plan your week and handed to whoever covers for you: a rhythm for reports, the leadership meeting, papers going up, numbers, changes and strategy, and a red list of what the tool never touches, from people and money to the board and anything sent outside, with a real name beside each line.
The certificate names that artefact and the tools you used — not a title. It carries a code anyone can check: verify a certificate.
The opening of lesson one, exactly as it plays inside — and the exercise that comes with it, which you can do right now without an account.
A large part of a senior job is not doing the work. It is deciding about it. Whether to bring a service in-house or keep the outside partner. Sometimes you make the call. Often you write the page that lets someone above you make it: the chief executive, the owners, the board.
That page is usually called a decision memo. One page: what is being decided, the options, what each costs and gives up, and a recommendation. An assistant can help a great deal with it, and do real damage in the same draft.
You will meet Nadia all through this course. She is the chief operating officer at a mid-size company that sells and installs solar panels and heat pumps for homes and small businesses. She reports to the chief executive, sits on the leadership team and writes papers for the board, and the heads of installation, customer service and purchasing report to her.
This month Nadia brings the chief executive a decision: hand the scheduling of installations to an outside partner, or keep it in her own team.
If she pastes her notes and asks for a decision memo, the draft may come back looking finished: balanced options, one clearly the best, a cost for each, a saving, a date when it pays off, and a confident recommendation. Her notes contain none of those figures. A memo without them looks unfinished, so a model may fill the gaps.
Try it now · Draft the decision memo with the recommendation blank
Where:Your approved work assistant
Here are my notes on whether to [the decision you are close to]. [paste your notes] Write a one-page decision memo with the question, the options including keeping things as they are, what each option gives up, and how hard each would be to undo. Where my notes give no figure, write figure needed and leave it blank. Leave the recommendation empty; I will write it.
The rest of the catalogue is there when you need it — but you do not have to choose anything today. One course, one short lesson at a time, one page at the end.
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