Monday Commitment Card - Build-a-Skill

Print one per participant. Hand out with a pen at the close of the session. The point isn’t to write a Skill today and forget it - it’s to use one next week, on a real task, with someone keeping you honest.


+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|  MY MONDAY COMMITMENT - Build-a-Skill                       |
|                                                             |
|  Name: ____________________________________________         |
|                                                             |
|  The ONE task I'll automate with a Skill this week:         |
|  ___________________________________________________        |
|  ___________________________________________________        |
|                                                             |
|  The Skill I'll write (or finish) first:                    |
|  ___________________________________________________        |
|                                                             |
|  Where I'll save it so my team can reuse it:                |
|  ___________________________________________________        |
|  (shared drive / wiki / channel - Way #5)                   |
|                                                             |
|  My accountability buddy: __________________________        |
|                                                             |
|  We'll check in on (date): _________________________        |
|                                                             |
|  One thing I'll double-check before I trust the output:     |
|  ___________________________________________________        |
|  (a date / an owner / a figure - Way #2)                    |
|                                                             |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+

How to use it (facilitator note)

  • Hand these out in the closing 10 minutes (1:37 on the timing cues), alongside pens.
  • Ask everyone to fill the task, the buddy, and the check-in date before they leave the room - those three lines are what survive the day.
  • Have pairs swap cards or photograph each other’s, so the commitment is witnessed, not private.
  • Buddies are best chosen across teams - a programme manager and an ops lead checking in beats two people on the same desk.

The “double-check before I trust it” line is deliberate: it bakes Way #2 - a human always signs the work into the habit from day one. AI invents owners, dates, and figures; the card reminds them which one to catch.


The five ways of working: ways-of-working.md. The template you’ll build from: SKILL-template.md.

Downloads for this session

Grab the templates and sample files used here.