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Start with the boring chore
When we get to building skills in a training session, I always ask what people would like to automate. And then I almost always get the same kind of answer. Someone mentions the biggest process of their job. The work they have been dreaming for years would one day happen by itself. Usually, that is also the work that involves the most thinking.
I do understand that. Yet I always say the same thing: put that out of your mind for a moment. You do not start with that. Look at the low-hanging fruit first, the little things you do again every week.
At the bottom of this article is a prompt that helps you choose which small chore to start with, which you can just copy.
Where you actually add nothing
I mean the tasks where, to be honest, you bring no added value. Whether you do it or someone else, the result is the same. It is always the same filter, always the same copying and pasting. With every new client, you go through the same steps to prepare. You do it because you have to. And really, you should not have to deal with it anymore.
A good question to find them is this: where am I the bottleneck myself? Where does work pile up until I make time for it, even though there is nothing difficult about it? I think that is the best place to start.
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