A practical method for non-coders: find the repeat tasks that are worth it, choose the lightest tool, have an AI assistant draft the script, then test it properly before it touches real work. Ten recipes, ready prompts and an ROI calculator included.
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List your repeat tasks and score them by frequency, minutes and error cost. Map the best one as trigger, steps, decisions and output, then use the lightest tool that works: a formula, a built-in rule, an AI-drafted script or a connector. Test on a copy and check company policy first. The Automate the Boring Parts of Your Job kit from Bodhih Training supplies the method and tools.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Automate Repetitive Tasks at Work Without Coding.
You open the same exports, paste them into the same workbook and send the same email. It was never in your job description. It simply became yours.
It produced forty lines of confident code for a process it had half invented. You could not tell whether it was right, so it is still sitting in a chat window.
A login expired or someone renamed a column, and you found out three weeks later from an annoyed colleague. Nobody else knows how it works, including, on a bad day, you.
So you have either not asked, or you have stayed away from automation altogether. Both cost you hours.
A list of tools is not a way of deciding what to automate, how to test it or how to hand it over. That is the part that matters.
Imagine a Friday three weeks from now. At 3.30 the exports are already in their folder. A summary refreshes, a draft email appears with three numbers in it, and you read it, change one word and press send. It is 3.42 and the rest of the afternoon belongs to work that needs you.
It starts smaller than that. When you open the Task inventory sheet on Monday and add the five things you caught yourself repeating, the Rank column will probably surprise you. The big dramatic job you dread is rarely the winner. A twelve-minute daily chore usually is, and you can often fix it before lunch with a formula.
Then, as you fill in the Workflow Map Worksheet, you will notice the step you had never written down. That page becomes the brief you paste into your assistant. It asks you questions first. You read its explanation line by line, run it on the TEST copy with the awkward sample rows, and watch it handle the blank email and the duplicate exactly as you decided it should.
By week ten the Savings chart has a line that climbs, each automation has a one-page handover and a backup owner, and you have a number to bring to your next review. You already know which task you would start with. Whether you begin with the ROI calculator tonight or the first recipe tomorrow, the first hour back is closer than it looks.
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Task inventory that scores and ranks every repeat task, an ROI simulator, a build tracker with review dates, an hours-saved log with a running total, and two dashboards. Any currency, any country.
The ten automations from the e-book, each with step-by-step logic, a ready prompt for an AI assistant to write the script, a test plan and the classic mistake to avoid.
Sixty copy-and-adapt prompts in six groups: specify, write, explain and review, test, debug, and document and hand over.
A one-page-per-automation template: purpose, owners, location, trigger, data, permissions, off switch, health check, common failures, manual fallback and change log.
A specific, one-page request that gives your manager and IT team what they need to say yes: purpose, data, accounts, storage, owner, off switch and failure plan, with a covering message.
Fillable two-page map: trigger, inputs, numbered steps, decisions, output, what can go wrong and the human checkpoint. Paste it straight into an AI brief.
A fillable five-minute check on data, permissions, copies and rollback to complete before any automation touches real work.
The four-rung tool ladder on one page: five questions to pick the lightest tool, typical jobs for each rung, and what each rung costs you in upkeep.
A two-page plain-English reader's guide to the words you will see in AI-written scripts, with the red flags to look for before you press run. Correct at October 2026.
A dated, vendor-neutral comparison of example connector tools: how each is metered, where it runs, what it suits and what to check, with ten questions to ask before connecting anything.
A one-page debugging flow: stop the damage, ask what changed, read the error, find the step, change one thing, with the five usual suspects and a symptom table.
30 invented event registrations with deliberate problems (blank email, duplicate, trailing space) for practising Recipes 1 and 3.
40 invented contacts full of stray spaces, mixed capitals, text dates, mixed phone formats and duplicates, for practising Recipe 2.
20 invented invoices in mixed currencies with paid, disputed, on-hold, duplicate and missing-contact rows, for practising Recipes 6 and 8.
One 45-minute build session and one 15-minute review each week for ten weeks, importable into Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
Why a 90-minute Friday report is a choice, what this kit will and won't do, and how to use the tools.
Score every repeat task by frequency, minutes and error cost, then discount for unclear rules and heavy builds.
Map the trigger, steps, decisions and output on one page so a person or an AI assistant can follow it.
The four-rung ladder: formulas, built-in rules, scripts, connectors, and five questions to pick the lowest rung.
The six-part brief, the read-before-run habit and what AI assistants commonly get wrong.
Data levels, where data travels, whose identity a script uses, where secrets go and how to ask IT.
Form to sheet to email, data clean-up, mail merge, file renamer and weekly report builder.
Reminder system, meeting notes to tasks, invoice chaser, dashboard refresh and approval flow.
Four test stages, the awkward dozen rows, the run-it-twice test and knowing your undo.
The five usual suspects and a calm method: stop the damage, read the error, change one thing.
One-page handover, a light maintenance rhythm, version copies and counting the hours you get back.
The whole method in one scene, and why to start smaller than you want to.
Dated notes on where scripts, triggers, secrets and run history live in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
A week-by-week table that matches the calendar file.
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
Jake is a sales operations analyst at a packaging firm in Ohio. Ask him what he would automate first and he says, without hesitating, "the quarterly territory realignment". It takes him two full days, four times a year, and he dreads it. It is the wrong answer. The realignment involves judgment calls, three managers arguing, and a different set of rules each quarter. Meanwhile, every single morning, Jake spends twelve minutes downloading yesterday's orders, deleting the top three rows, and pasting the rest into a tracker. He had stopped noticing it. Twelve minutes a day across a working year is around 46 hours, more than the quarterly job he hated, and it is pure rule-following. The tasks that annoy you most are rarely the best ones to automate. The best ones are boring, frequent and predictable. They hide.
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Method | A list of tools and a blank tracker | A full method from finding the task to handing it over, taught in 10 chapters |
| Choosing what to automate | Automate whatever annoys you most | A scored, ranked inventory with a verdict, plus a payback simulator |
| AI prompts | A handful of one-line prompts | A six-part brief, 10 full recipe prompts and a 60-prompt library that covers explaining, testing and debugging |
| Safety | Rarely mentioned | Permission, data levels, secrets, a pre-flight checklist and an IT approval request before the first build |
| Testing | Try it and see | Sample data with planted problems, an answer key, test plans and a run-it-twice rule |
| Tool advice | Tied to one product and quickly out of date | Stable principles in the book; product specifics in a dated sheet marked check the vendor |
| Where it works | One country, one currency, one suite | Any currency and country; examples for both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 |
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Open the workbook, add five tasks and see which one ranks first. Whether you fix it with a formula this week or build your first tested script next month, you will have made a real start. Build it small, test it on a copy, write it down.
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No coding experience is needed to start, and many of the wins use formulas and built-in features only. For scripts, an AI assistant writes the draft and you learn to read its explanation, test it and spot red flags. We do not promise you will never need technical help: for anything touching money, personal data or customers, a review by IT or a technical colleague is wise.
Start by listing what you repeat and scoring each task by frequency, minutes and error cost. Map the top one on a page, pick the lightest tool that works, test on a copy and only then go live. The kit walks you through each step with a workbook, a worksheet and ten recipes.
The method is tool-agnostic. Examples use spreadsheet formulas, built-in rules, Google Apps Script, Office Scripts with Power Automate, and connector tools such as Zapier, Make and n8n, named as examples only. This is an independent guide, not affiliated with or endorsed by any vendor. Product specifics live in a dated cheat sheet marked correct at October 2026, because they change often.
It can be, if you treat it as a draft. AI-written scripts are sometimes wrong and can contain security weaknesses, so the kit teaches you to get a line-by-line explanation, check for red flags, test on a copy with awkward data and run in draft mode first. Always follow your employer's IT and data policy before connecting anything to work accounts.
Usually a small, frequent, rule-based chore, not the big job you dread. The Task inventory sheet ranks your tasks for you, and the ROI simulator shows how quickly a build would pay back. A formula or a built-in rule is the suggested start in week one.
The kit puts permission first. Chapter 5, the Pre-Flight Safety Checklist and the IT and Manager Approval Request help you ask specifically and early. If your organisation says no to scripts or connectors, the formula and built-in rule versions of the recipes still apply.
If you would like a baseline before you begin, AssessAll offers the Flowcharts and Process Logic assessment, the AI Agent Oversight and Delegation Assessment for Knowledge Work, and the Digital Competence Assessment for Office, Frontline and Field Roles. They are optional and separate from the kit, and they pair well with Chapters 2 and 4.
Learning to automate is mostly learning by doing. Jobulary's article on the 70-20-10 model explains why, and you can use it alongside the ten-week calendar: most of your time on real builds, some on feedback from a colleague or IT, and a little on reading.
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