A task performed by Training and Development Specialists
Keep up with developments in area of expertise by reading current journals, books, or magazine articles.
Likely yes, and the people who do it want it gone. Workers rate their desire to automate this 3.6/5, and experts rate current AI capability at 4/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 10 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 3 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers want this automated
- Reduces human error50%
- Frees up time for higher-value work40%
- It's repetitive30%
- It's difficult30%
- Helps handle larger scale30%
- It's stressful20%
How to automate this
Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.
Where to start
Remove the repetitive parts first.
- 1Write down the steps you take to keep up with developments in area of expertise by reading current journals, books, or magazine articles and template anything you do the same way each time.
- 2Connect your tools with a no-code automation (Zapier, Make, Power Automate).
- 3Use AI for the first draft, then review.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 10 tasks studied for Training and Development Specialists, where workers want 70% of tasks automated.
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