Why Having 3 Simple CustomGPT Might Be the Smartest Career Move You’ll Make
Join our weekly Learning Lab tonight at 7p ET and we will help you create your first Custom GPT in 10 min
Become an AI-First Professional
In today’s economy, professionals who don’t master AI risk falling behind those who do. The same transformation reshaping entire companies is now rewriting individual careers.
We’ve helped numerous organizations define and execute their “AI-First Company” strategies, achieving higher valuation multiples, stronger competitive advantages, and improved employee satisfaction. The same framework applies to individuals who want to become AI-First Professionals.
These professionals use AI tools to increase productivity by 10% to 30%, eliminate repetitive work, and stay indispensable. Across dozens of executives we’ve coached, those who integrated AI into their daily routines completed recurring tasks significantly faster and spent more time on strategic priorities. The knowledge workers who thrive in this new era will manage small teams of AI agents and begin each day with their own digital assistants.
Learning to build simple AI tools within your company’s preferred secure chatbot—typically Microsoft Copilot or OpenAI ChatGPT—is the essential next step. In ChatGPT, these tools are called customGPTs (or simply GPTs) and function like an Excel macro—automation for your mind.
CustomGPTs are ideal for daily or weekly tasks. They store saved prompts, preloaded data, and configuration settings, removing the need to start from scratch each time. Both the consumer version of ChatGPT ($20/month) and the enterprise editions (Business, Teams, and Enterprise) support them.
I use three every week:
Proofread my blog articles with a tailored editorial approach
Analyze contracts for key legal risks
Generate 10 compelling subject lines or titles for emails and blog posts
Together, these save at least four hours each week—time redirected toward higher-impact work.
Every knowledge worker aiming to stay relevant should build and use three customGPTs for the tasks performed most often.
At tonight’s Learning Lab (7 p.m.), I’ll guide attendees in creating their first customGPT—a “Daily Joke” generator—and share the exact prompts behind the three GPTs above. (Sign up via Meetup.) Investing just 10 minutes to create these tools can set you firmly on your AI learning journey and make your workday meaningfully more productive.
To meet demand, we’ve launched free, 1 hour 101 training for Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI ChatGPT for business professionals. Improve your basic AI skills, enhance your promotability, and get your questions answered. Register here for our free, instructor-led online classes
Join us Monday our weekly Learning Lab online tonight, Monday Oct 13 at 7p ET / 4p PT. Our Showcase presentation is “GenAI in Motion: Adaptive Automation for Smarter, Real-time Healthcare” - Sam Schiffman, Innovation Architect, Vantiq. Register via Meetup.
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Onward,
Paul
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