What it means in practice
There is no shortage of theoretical talks about how AI will change humanity. Your employee comes out of one inspired, but with no idea what to actually do.
The Monday morning test is our uncompromising filter for everything we teach. It is a very specific question: “When the employee comes in on Monday morning, opens their laptop and makes a coffee, which exact task will they do faster, cheaper or better because of what they learned with us?” If we cannot answer it, that technique comes out of the syllabus.
Why companies need to know this
- No more theorising. It forces the focus onto real work. You are not paying for your people to understand the history of neural networks, you are paying for them to turn quotes around faster.
- Immediate return. Skills that pass this test convert into saved time from the first day after the workshop.
- Easy to measure. You can judge the training investment clearly. Either that email now takes 3 minutes instead of 15, or it does not. Nothing in between.
An example from practice
A sales company sent its managers to a general AI conference. They came back convinced AI was the future, and their daily work did not change at all. Later they applied the Monday morning test. They named the problem: turning unstructured notes from a sales meeting into a quote takes too long. They built an exact procedure (a prompt) that automated it. On Monday morning the sales team came in and quote preparation had dropped from 30 minutes to 5.
In our company AI workshops the Monday morning test is the core of the whole programme. Everything is taught for immediate use.