You will create and begin a short learning plan for a skill your job needs, using AI as tutor and quizmaster.
Write down one skill your job will need in the next month or two, and what you will use it for, in a single sentence, before you open the AI assistant.
Most workplace learning happens in a rush and on the fly. A new system goes live on Monday, a regulation changes, or a new manager wants a different kind of analysis, and you pick it up from colleagues, search results and trial and error. That works some of the time, but it often leaves gaps, and you tend to find those gaps only when they cause a cost or a problem.
A sprint is a planned way to learn instead: two weeks of short daily study sessions on one skill your job needs. The assistant acts as your tutor and quizmaster, you check what it tells you against a trusted source, and the two weeks end with a practical task. You plan the whole sprint now and complete the first two sessions.
Pick a skill with a definite use at work within the next month or two. It might be a new tool your team is adopting, a regulation that affects a process you run, a type of analysis your manager has asked for, or a part of the business you need to understand better.
A clear use does two jobs. It keeps the sprint focused, because you know what you must be able to do at the end. It also gives you the end task, a real piece of work that shows whether you learned the skill.
Grace, whom you met in lessons 8.1 to 8.3, is responsible for stores and a team, and she attends a finance meeting. Her sentence was: be able to read my stores' monthly profit and loss report well enough to explain my team's cost changes to the finance meeting without help.
Give the assistant three things: your sentence, what you already know about the subject, and how much time you have each day. Ask for a two-week plan with ten sessions, one per working day, about 20 minutes each. Ask for one idea per session, a few practice questions in each session, spaced reviews of earlier sessions, and a final practical task on a realistic example.
Read what comes back critically. Check that each session covers one manageable idea, that the reviews are spaced out as described in lesson 8.2 and not bunched at the end, and that the final task is close to the real use in your sentence. Then adjust anything that does not fit your week. A plan that assumes 45 minutes a day when you have 20 will be abandoned by Wednesday.
Grace's plan (her details here are an example) has ten sessions of 20 minutes. Week one covers the structure of a profit and loss report and its main lines, from revenue and cost of sales down to operating costs, plus the difference between fixed and variable costs. Week two covers month-to-month changes, one-off items, and how to explain a change in a few sentences. Reviews are built into sessions 3, 6 and 9. Her end task is a half-page commentary on her team's costs for the next finance meeting, which the finance manager will review.
Choose your trusted source the way lesson 8.3, "Check what you learned against a reliable source", describes, and name it in the plan. Grace kept the same accounting textbook she used there and added her company's own guide to its report format. The guide turned out to define two lines differently from the textbook. A company's internal guide can define items differently from a general textbook, so where the two disagreed, Grace followed the company guide and noted the difference.
Write the checks into the plan as named steps. The recommended pattern is a short check at the end of each session on any definition or rule that came up, and a longer check halfway through the sprint covering everything so far. If a check exists only as an intention, it is the first thing you will drop on a busy day.
Then book ten twenty-minute appointments with yourself in your calendar, each labelled with its topic.
Do sessions 1 and 2 now, or over the next two days. Use the tutoring approach from lesson 8.1: state your background up front, take one idea at a time, answer a check question after each idea, and explain the idea back in your own words. End each session with practice questions answered without notes.
After each session, write a short log entry covering:
what you learned, in a sentence or two in your own words what you checked against your trusted source, and whether the assistant was right which questions you got wrong how long the session took
Grace's first entry recorded that gross profit is revenue minus cost of sales, and gross margin is gross profit as a percentage of revenue. The textbook agreed with the assistant. She got 4 of 5 practice questions right and missed one on where staff costs sit. The session took 22 minutes.
Her second entry recorded a disagreement. The assistant had put delivery charges in cost of sales, but her company guide put them in operating costs. She followed the company guide and noted the difference. The assistant had got the classification wrong for her company, and the check against her trusted source caught it.
When you finish, you should have a written plan with daily sessions, spaced reviews, a named trusted source with scheduled checks and a practical end task tied to real work. You should also have ten sessions booked in your calendar and log entries for the first two sessions.
Write your one-sentence skill and its use now. That sentence is the brief for everything that follows.
Write a two-week learning plan with daily sessions, a trusted source and an end task, and log the first two completed sessions.
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