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20 questions for your professional context file

Not sure what to say about yourself? Answer these out loud, in any order, and skip what does not fit. Ten to fifteen minutes is enough

20 questions · about 15 minutes

Talk, and let the AI write it up

Open Claude or ChatGPT and press the microphone. Answer one question at a time, the way you would tell a new colleague. When you are done, ask the AI to write up your answers

Try

Turn my answers into a one-page profile, written as “I”, that you can read before every task. Leave out anything confidential

You and your role

  1. What is your role, and how would you explain it to a friend?

    Two or three sentences

  2. Which team are you in, and who do you work with most?

    Departments, countries, customers, suppliers

  3. What is your background, and what experience do you bring?

    Education, earlier jobs, years in the field

  4. What do colleagues come to you for?

    What you are known for

Your work

  1. What does a normal week look like for you?

    Meetings, deadlines, fixed points

  2. Which tasks take most of your time?

    Name the three biggest

  3. Which tasks do you repeat every week or month?

    Reports, summaries, comments, checks, emails

  4. Which tasks would you gladly hand over, and which would you keep?

    What drains you and what you enjoy

  5. Which systems, files and tools do you use every day?

    Excel, Teams, Outlook, reporting systems

  6. Which words would an outsider not understand?

    Abbreviations, internal and product names, terms from your field

How you like your answers

  1. Do you prefer short answers or full explanations?

    And whether that changes when you are busy

  2. How do you take in information best?

    Lists, tables, short text, examples or charts

How you write

  1. In which languages do you write, and to whom?

    For example Danish to colleagues and English to the wider company

  2. How would colleagues describe the way you write?

    Short, warm, formal, direct, precise

  3. Which words or phrases should never appear in your name?

    What does not sound like you

What matters to you

  1. What are your goals at work this year?

    What would make this a good year for you

  2. What do you want to learn or get better at?

    A skill, a tool or a way of working

  3. What gives you energy outside work?

    Only what you are happy to share, so examples fit you

How the AI should work with you

  1. What should the AI always do when it helps you?

    Ask before it assumes, show its sources, keep it short

  2. What should it never do?

    Invent figures, change your meaning, sound more formal than you

Take it further

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