--- title: "Never Stop Learning: learning" client: "Atlas Copco Group" language: en date: "2026-10-12" version: "1.0.4" canonical_url: "https://20261012.jardenberg.net/learning.html" --- 03 / Always be learning # The work. And the way you work. Make room for improving, learning and helping someone else. ## The Four Jobs. ![The Four Jobs framework: do the work, improve how it is done, improve yourself and develop the team.](https://20261012.jardenberg.net/assets/four-jobs.webp) The framework slide used in the session. Delivering the task matters. So does improving the process that produces it. In the session, I used these four jobs to connect performance with continued learning. AI can contribute to all four. 01 ### Do the work. Prepare, analyse, write and deliver what is needed. Keep the standard of a good result clear. 02 ### Improve the work. Question unnecessary steps. Find the recurring friction and test a simpler way. 03 ### Improve yourself. Practise, ask for explanations and invite useful feedback. Build judgement as well as tool familiarity. 04 ### Develop the team. Share a discovery, coach a colleague and make good work easier for someone else. When AI frees some capacity, where will you deliberately invest it? ## You have someone to ask. I opened Copilot and asked where to start learning how to use it more effectively. Then I asked it to explain cognitive load and wellbeing. When an answer felt too long or complicated, I could ask for a shorter version, a familiar example or a different explanation. That is a conversation you can start before you know the perfect question. Explain what you understand, what is confusing and what you want to be able to do. Keep refining until the answer becomes useful. Learn through a conversation ```text I want to learn how to use the AI tools available to me more effectively. Here is my role and a task I find difficult: [describe]. Ask one question at a time to understand my starting point. Then propose a small exercise we can do together, using a safe example. Explain what I should look for in the result and help me improve the next attempt. ``` Change the explanation ```text Explain that in simpler language, with one concrete example from my work. Keep the important qualification. Then ask me a question to check whether I have understood. ``` I used “ELI5”, short for “explain like I'm five”, as a playful way to ask for clarity. I also mentioned “explain like I'm the CEO”: purpose, implications and decisions. The real skill is telling AI which explanation will help you. Try a simple trigger: when you are about to search, rewrite, summarise or prepare something the usual way, pause and ask, “Could AI help me approach this differently?” You can keep the method that works and reject the one that does not. The learning-plan example ## Twelve weeks. Your own useful target. In the demonstration, I asked Copilot for a 12-week plan aimed at freeing 16 hours of repetitive work each week. It broke the ambition into work categories, target savings and a sequence of experiments. **Sixteen hours was a planning target, not a measured saving or a promise.** The useful move is to begin with your own work, replace estimates with observations, and improve one recurring process at a time. The example categories shown on screen | Work category | Illustrative weekly target | | --- | --- | | Presentation and facilitation material | 4 hours | | Meeting recaps and follow-up | 3 hours | | Research and briefings | 2 hours | | Proposals and scoping | 2 hours | | Repurposing existing content | 2 hours | | Inbox and administration | 1.5 hours | | Retrieving previous material | 1.5 hours | ### A sequence to adapt. The following is a companion exercise inspired by the demonstration, not a transcription of every week in the on-screen document. | Week | Focus | What to keep | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Observe your recurring work. | A baseline, including checking and correction time. | | 2 | Find and reuse existing knowledge. | A reliable way to recover sources and previous decisions. | | 3 | Improve one writing or presentation task. | A clear brief and one checked before/after example. | | 4 | Improve a recurring recap or follow-up. | A repeatable structure with decisions and unknowns separated. | | 5 | Practise research with sources. | A brief that distinguishes evidence from inference. | | 6 | Package what worked. | A saved prompt or reusable instruction tested on a new input. | | 7 | Improve preparation and scoping. | A small set of useful questions and an explicit definition of done. | | 8 | Adapt existing material for another audience. | A checked derivative that preserves the original meaning. | | 9 | Invite feedback on the process. | One recurring weakness and a tested correction. | | 10 | Try a task with a clearer handover. | Inputs, expected output and decisions that still belong to you. | | 11 | Remove one repeated administrative irritation. | A small workflow that stays within your actual access. | | 12 | Review the evidence and share. | Measured benefit, remaining costs and one method a colleague can try. | Build my 12-week plan ```text Help me create a 12-week plan to reduce repetitive work and improve how I use AI. My role: [describe] Recurring tasks: [list what I know] Tools and access I have: [describe] Time I can invest in learning each week: [amount] My initial ambition: [a useful outcome, not necessarily a number of hours] First ask about my real workload and constraints. Do not invent current time use or achievable savings. Group the work into a few categories. Distinguish targets from measured results and include setup, checking and correction costs. Build a week-by-week progression from small conversations to reusable instructions and, only where useful and available, agents or automation. Give each week one experiment, an example prompt, a success check and something worth keeping. Include time to practise and share. Review the plan with me before calling it realistic. ``` ## The Word-to-PowerPoint attempt. I also tried to show the next step: combining the learning-plan document with a presentation template. That live attempt did not complete as intended. I showed the intended result and said I would return with a screencast. You can still try the underlying idea with an available presentation tool: supply the source, explain the audience and ask it to follow a template. Inspect whether the structure, wording and design were actually preserved. Adapt a plan to a presentation ```text Use this document as the content source and this presentation as the design template. Create a clear presentation for [audience and purpose]. Preserve the document's important assumptions, qualifications and next actions. Follow the template's fonts, colours, spacing and layouts. Do not invent results or add unsupported claims. If you cannot access or edit either file, tell me exactly what is missing before proceeding. ``` The promised screencast is a separate follow-up. This page does not present the interrupted live attempt as a successful conversion. Prepared by AI + JJ. Based on the delivered keynote, final slides and reviewed source material; this is an edited learning companion.