No time to learn the thing that gives time back
Everyone agrees we should be doing this. Nobody has an afternoon to spare.
// The diagnosis
The trap is that the people who would gain the most have the least room. Training loses to whatever is due on Friday, and it will keep losing, because a deadline is concrete and a skill is not. So it sits on next quarter's list permanently while the gap widens. Nothing about this resolves on its own: the busier a team gets, the less able it is to get less busy.
// TRAIN
Half days rather than full days, so nobody loses a working day. Built on the three tasks that eat the most of each person's week, taken from a survey before anything is booked, so the training time is working time. Every session ends with something that runs, so the payback starts that week instead of waiting on a behaviour change nobody has room to make.
// Already built
On the workflows we automated, people got four to five hours a day back.
// The outcome
The time comes back first, and it pays for the rest of the programme.
// Before you call
Ask your team the question the survey asks: which three tasks eat the most of your week. You get the curriculum and the business case out of the same answers, and it costs you one email.
Not this if you can genuinely clear a full week for your team. Then buy a longer programme from somebody else.
// The other calls I get
- 02Every time we want to build something, we have to go outside for it.
- 03Legal will not approve it, so officially nobody here uses AI.
- 04We cannot take on more work without hiring more of the person we cannot find.
- 05Most of what we earn arrives through a platform we do not control and cannot integrate with.
- 06We are paying four suppliers for AI and I cannot tell the board which of them is working.
- 07We have been at this a year and I still cannot put a number next to any of it.
// If this one is yours
It goes straight to my inbox. No sequence, no sales team.