Carousel Mini-Module: Making Your Professional Life Easier

In this mini-module, participants will explore how to use AI to enhance their professional tasks, including drafting letters of recommendation, making emails more professional, drafting documents, brainstorming ideas, and more. Participants will explore how AI can assist in creating polished and effective communications, generating well-structured documents, and providing creative input for brainstorming sessions.

Bonus Introduction:

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Vanilla Introduction:

Below you'll find a mini-module related to using AI to make your professional life easier. Some of the ways that I use AI to save time are by writing drafts of letters of recommendation (see Carousel Mini-Module: Drafting Letters of Recommendation), making emails more professional, drafting documents, brainstorming, and others. Review the resources and choose at least one website to try out their recommendation. Then, engage in the activity and reflection. If you are looking for a platform, Paul suggests you use ChatGPT for this assignment.

This module is a little different from the others. We will provide you with a variety of resources and you can try one their ideas out. 

Explore any of the resources below:

4 unexpected work tasks made easier by AI

1. Reworking your emails and messages so they land well
2. A new brainstorming buddy
3. Streamlining image editing
4. Streamlining meeting notes and documentation

Boost Your Email Efficiency with Microsoft Copilot in Outlook

1. Summarize Long Email Threads
2. Draft Email Responses
3. Prioritize Important Emails
4. Schedule Meetings and Appointments
5. Analyze Attachments and Email Content
6. Follow Up Reminders

I Tried These AI-Based Productivity Tools. Here’s What Happened

1. Most ridiculous: Aragon.AI for headshots
2. Most expensive: AdCreativeAI for ads and social posts
3. Most value: Canva for designing anything
4. Most work to get good outputs: Midjourney
5. Most glitchy and frustrating: Otter.AI
6. Most consistent use: ChatGPT