TRAIN AI TO WORK SMARTER FOR YOU
How to turn AI into a practical team member.
Save time and energy, without losing your creativity or human touch.
Sharon Facey
AI promised to make our lives easier.
It was supposed to simplify the endless to-do lists, automate the small things, and give us time back to focus on what really matters.
But if you’ve spent time trying to “make AI work,” you’ve probably noticed it can just as easily do the opposite. You start with a simple idea, and before long you’re testing features, rewriting prompts, and comparing new tools that claim to do it better.
The hours we hoped to save slip away into testing, adjusting, comparing, and relearning. And while the tools themselves work, we rarely have the time to make them work for us.
Caught in the Loop of Learning Instead of Creating
The pace of AI is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Every tool now offers its own “AI feature,” and updates arrive faster than most of us can keep up. The temptation to keep trying “the next best thing” is strong, but that constant switching keeps us stuck in a loop of learning rather than creating.
It’s hard to know what’s worth your time. Will this new feature really help, or will it take another week to learn? What most of us want is a tool we can trust to take on some of the many hats we wear as business owners.
That’s why the way we approach AI now matters.
Treat AI Like a Team Member, Not Another Tool
A better way to think about AI is not as another app to master but as a team member you train.
You decide its role. Maybe it’s your Content Planner, your Brainstorming Partner, or your Research Assistant. Then you train it to understand how you think, how you speak, and what your audience cares about. You give it clear instructions, share your brand voice and past content, and show what great content looks like in your business.
It takes a bit of time to set up properly, but that investment quickly pays off. Once AI understands your context, it begins to do real, useful work that frees you to focus on what actually moves your business forward.
Designing How Technology Fits Into Your Work
Technology will keep changing. The question is whether we keep chasing it, or whether we start designing how it fits into our work.
When we train it with purpose, AI becomes a team member that keeps our projects moving, our ideas organised, and our workload lighter, not another tool that steals our time.
