Category Archives: Excel Templates

AI Writing, Business Continuity, CHATGPT, Excel Templates

Are you still writing Business Continuity Plans that hard way? + Get New AI BCP Prompt Toolkit

Posted on by Alan Thompson
18
Jun

A few months ago, I started experimenting with AI (Claude is my perference, fwiw) to see if it could help. My initial results were… ok but that’s all. It gave me generic, high-level ‘stuff’. But I didn’t give up. I realized the problem wasn’t the AI; it was my instructions. In AI speak, these are called ‘prompts’.

So, after a bit of trial and error, I learned to write more specific prompts. And the results really made a difference.

That’s part of the reason why I created the AI Prompt Toolkit for Business Continuity Planning. It’s the result of months of testing and refinement, so that you can craft better, more detailed, and truly personalized BCPs in less time.

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Excel Templates, Procedure Writing, Proposal Writing

Are Your Proposals Hitting the Mark? How to Calculate and Improve Your Success Ratio

Posted on by Alan Thompson
13
Apr

You and your team pour hours, days, sometimes weeks into crafting detailed proposals. You hit submit, cross your fingers, and wait. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But do you actually know how often you’re successful? When I ask clients, ‘What’s your win rate?’, I often get answers based on gut feelings or recent memory – “We win a fair few,” or “We lost a big one last month.” Relying on anecdotes isn’t a strategy; it’s flying blind, hoping for the best without truly understanding your performance.

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