Lesson 4 of 4 · about 5 min
Grow with AI: your 30-day plan
When you finish, you can follow a month-long practice plan and describe your AI skills honestly to your supervisor and colleagues.
Stuck? Ask the AI tutorSkills that gain value
Clear writing, service design, data literacy, privacy awareness, community engagement, translation review and the ability to explain decisions all gain value. So does the habit of testing a tool before trusting it.
Public agencies will need people who understand both the tools and the public they serve. You can be one of them.
Four weeks of practice
Week one: read your agency's rules on AI, data and records. Practice with public documents only. Week two: do five plain-language rewrites and five meeting summaries, checking each against the original. Log mistakes.
Week three: create a prompt sheet for your most common tasks, with a checklist for review. Week four: with approval, apply one workflow to a low-risk real task and measure time saved and errors found. Share a short report with your supervisor.
Describing skills honestly
On a resume or profile: “Used approved AI tools to draft plain-language notices and meeting summaries; verified all content against source documents and followed records policy.” Avoid claiming you automated services or decisions.
In an interview, describe a public-facing task, a mistake the tool made, how you caught it and what you changed.
Talking with your supervisor and the public
Your supervisor worries about risk, cost and public trust. Propose a small, approved pilot with clear checks. Offer to document it for colleagues.
If a resident asks, be open: you may use tools for drafting, but staff review and are responsible for the content. Offer another way to reach a person if they prefer.
Practice now
- Write your four-week plan with one measurable goal per week.
- Draft a short note to your supervisor proposing an approved, low-risk pilot.
Use any AI assistant you have. Do not paste private, client or patient information into it.
Check yourself
1. What is a good first step?
2. Which resume line is honest?
3. How should you describe AI use to a resident?
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