How to Structure an AI Center of Excellence That Actually Works
A practical guide to structuring an AI Center of Excellence: which operating model fits your company size, who needs a seat, what to measure, and a rough first 90 days if you’re the one who just got handed the job.
How to Manage Up With AI: Communicating With Your Boss More Effectively
A practical guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to communicate more effectively with your own manager: status updates, framing asks, prepping for 1:1s, giving upward feedback, and reading what your boss actually needs.
How to Use AI for Compensation Benchmarking and Salary Bands
A practical guide for HR and People Ops teams using AI to benchmark pay, model salary bands by role, level, and geography, and flag pay equity risk, plus what still needs a human and a lawyer.
How to Use AI to Write a Cover Letter That Doesn’t Sound Generic
A practical, honest guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to draft a cover letter, then editing it so it reads like a real person wrote it instead of a template.
What Is AI Enablement? A Practical Guide to Building It at Your Company
A plain-English definition of AI enablement and a practical, step-by-step plan for building a real enablement program at your company, not just buying licenses.
How to Use AI for Strategic Planning: SWOT, PESTLE, and Scenario Planning
A practical guide to using AI for SWOT, PESTLE, and scenario planning ahead of a real quarterly or annual strategy offsite, without the generic output.
How to Use AI to Write a Performance Improvement Plan That Actually Holds Up
A practical guide for managers using AI to draft a performance improvement plan (PIP): how to get specific, measurable goals out of a generic prompt, what makes a PIP legally and practically defensible, and why most PIPs fail for reasons AI cannot fix.
How to Use AI for Invoice Processing and Accounts Payable (No Finance Team Required)
A practical guide to using AI for invoice processing and accounts payable: what AI actually automates in AP right now, how to choose between Ramp, BILL, Tipalti, and QuickBooks, how to build a capture-to-payment workflow, and where to keep a human in the loop.
How to Use AI to Write Employee Disciplinary Write-Ups (Without Sounding Like a Robot or a Lawsuit)
A practical, in-the-trenches guide to using AI for employee disciplinary write-ups. It covers writing specific, behavior-based documentation instead of vague filler, dodging the exact phrases that turn a write-up into a discrimination exhibit, keeping every manager’s documentation consistent, protecting confidentiality, and knowing exactly where AI’s job ends and a human, sometimes a lawyer, needs to take over.
How to Use AI for OKR Planning and Quarterly Goal-Setting (A Practical System)
A practical, tool-by-tool system for using AI for OKR planning: drafting objectives from real priorities instead of aspirational fluff, turning them into measurable key results, cascading goals without the telephone-game distortion, choosing between ChatGPT, Claude, and dedicated OKR software like Lattice, Perdoo, and Quantive, and catching the specific way AI-generated OKRs go soft and stop meaning anything.
