Context file · work
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
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
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
What is your role, and how would you explain it to a friend?
Two or three sentences
Which team are you in, and who do you work with most?
Departments, countries, customers, suppliers
What is your background, and what experience do you bring?
Education, earlier jobs, years in the field
What do colleagues come to you for?
What you are known for
Your work
What does a normal week look like for you?
Meetings, deadlines, fixed points
Which tasks take most of your time?
Name the three biggest
Which tasks do you repeat every week or month?
Reports, summaries, comments, checks, emails
Which tasks would you gladly hand over, and which would you keep?
What drains you and what you enjoy
Which systems, files and tools do you use every day?
Excel, Teams, Outlook, reporting systems
Which words would an outsider not understand?
Abbreviations, internal and product names, terms from your field
How you like your answers
Do you prefer short answers or full explanations?
And whether that changes when you are busy
How do you take in information best?
Lists, tables, short text, examples or charts
How you write
In which languages do you write, and to whom?
For example Danish to colleagues and English to the wider company
How would colleagues describe the way you write?
Short, warm, formal, direct, precise
Which words or phrases should never appear in your name?
What does not sound like you
What matters to you
What are your goals at work this year?
What would make this a good year for you
What do you want to learn or get better at?
A skill, a tool or a way of working
What gives you energy outside work?
Only what you are happy to share, so examples fit you
How the AI should work with you
What should the AI always do when it helps you?
Ask before it assumes, show its sources, keep it short
What should it never do?
Invent figures, change your meaning, sound more formal than you
Take it further
Want your whole team to work like this?
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