Go from ChatGPT-curious to ChatGPT-confident in 20 hours
A session-by-session playbook built for your industry — no tech background, no jargon, no wasted time. Just the 20% of skills that deliver 80% of the results, applied to real work you need to finish anyway.
"I built this Playbook because everyone deserves a brilliant, tireless co-pilot at work — and 20 focused hours is all it takes to learn how to fly together."— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Write powerful, industry-specific prompts that get ChatGPT to produce professional-quality work on the first try — no endless back-and-forth needed.
- Apply the core mental models (the 20% of ChatGPT skills that deliver 80% of the results) to your actual daily job tasks within your first week.
- Build at least one complete real-world project — a marketing campaign, lesson plan, legal brief outline, business proposal, or equivalent — using ChatGPT as your co-pilot.
- Customize your ChatGPT workflow to your specific industry so the tool speaks your language, understands your context, and accelerates your most time-consuming work.
- Spot and fix the most common beginner mistakes (vague prompts, over-trusting outputs, ignoring iteration) that keep most users stuck at novice level.
- Walk away with a personalized next-step roadmap and a toolkit of reusable prompt templates, checklists, and shortcuts you can deploy immediately — and update as ChatGPT evolves.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 20 lessons
Foundations — The 20% That Drives 80% of Your Results
Session 1 (2 hours). This opening session rewires how learners think about ChatGPT before they touch a single key. We start with the mindset shift — you are not a passive user, you are the director of a brilliant but literal assistant. Learners choose their industry track here, which personalizes every lesson that follows. By the end of this session, every learner has written and submitted their first real power prompt and completed a progress checklist. No jargon without a plain-English definition. No overwhelm — just the essential 20% that unlocks 80% of the value.
- 1.1Segment 1 — The Mindset Shift: From Passive User to Confident DirectorIncluded
- 1.2Segment 2 — Your First Real Conversation: Setup, Interface & Prompt AnatomyIncluded
- 1.3Segment 3 — Your Industry Lens: Making ChatGPT Speak Your LanguageIncluded
- 1.4Segment 4 + Review — Your First Power Prompt & Session 1 Progress CheckIncluded
Core Mental Models & Essential Tools — Think Like a Power User
Sessions 2–3 (4 hours). This module is the intellectual engine of the course. Learners graduate from 'I know how to type a prompt' to 'I think like a power user.' Five proven mental models are introduced — the frameworks that separate people who get mediocre AI outputs from people who get professional-quality work on the first try. Hidden features most beginners never find are revealed. Learners build a living Prompt Library personalized to their industry. Dangerous beginner traps are named, demonstrated, and permanently dismantled. Every concept is grounded in the learner's own industry so nothing feels abstract.
- 2.1The Five Mental Models Every Power User Lives ByIncluded
- 2.2Features Most Beginners Never Find — Your Hidden ToolkitIncluded
- 2.3Building Your Personal Prompt LibraryIncluded
- 2.4Prompt Patterns That Work in Every IndustryIncluded
- 2.5Avoiding the Traps — Common Mistakes & How to Fix ThemIncluded
Guided Practice — Real Tasks, Increasing Difficulty
Sessions 4–6 (6 hours). This is where knowledge becomes skill through deliberate, structured practice. Learners move through three escalating difficulty levels — core daily tasks, analysis and creation, and complex multi-step workflows — all grounded in their chosen industry track. Every exercise uses real (or realistic) tasks from the learner's actual job, not hypothetical scenarios. The difficulty ramp is intentional: early wins build confidence and vocabulary; later challenges build the problem-solving muscle that separates power users from casual users. Learners accumulate new prompts for their library at every step.
- 3.1Level 1 Practice — Your Core Daily Tasks, SuperchargedIncluded
- 3.2Level 1 Practice — Communication, Emails & MeetingsIncluded
- 3.3Level 2 Practice — Analysis, Research & Decision SupportIncluded
- 3.4Level 2 Practice — Creating, Planning & Brainstorming at ScaleIncluded
- 3.5Level 3 Practice — Complex, Multi-Step WorkflowsIncluded
Real-World Projects & Scenarios — Build the Thing
Sessions 7–8 (4 hours). This is where learners stop practicing and start producing. Every learner builds a complete, real-world, industry-specific deliverable — not a simulated exercise, but something they can actually use, show, or submit in their professional life. The project is chosen at the start of Session 7, planned in detail, built with ChatGPT as co-pilot, refined through iteration, and finalized in Session 8. Common real-world scenarios and edge cases specific to each industry track are also addressed — equipping learners to handle the situations they will encounter once the course is over. Peer feedback and self-assessment are built into the structure.
- 4.1Your Industry Project — Planning, Scoping & First BuildIncluded
- 4.2Your Industry Project — Refining, Finishing & Common ScenariosIncluded
Advanced Shortcuts, Best Practices & Smart Evolution
Session 9 (2 hours). Learners have the core skills. This session makes them faster, sharper, and future-proof. Power-user shortcuts dramatically reduce the time from task to finished output. Best practices turn good results into consistently great results. And the evolution framework — how to track ChatGPT updates, test new features, and update a Prompt Library as the tool grows — ensures learners never fall behind again. This is the session that separates people who plateau at 'pretty good' from people who keep getting better every month.
- 5.1Power-User Shortcuts & Productivity MultipliersIncluded
- 5.2Staying Current — How to Evolve as ChatGPT EvolvesIncluded
Capstone Project & Your Personalized Next-Step Roadmap
Session 10 (2 hours). The final session is both a culmination and a launch. Learners produce their Signature AI-Powered Deliverable — a polished, professional-grade output that demonstrates the full range of skills developed across all nine previous sessions. Unlike the Module 4 project (which was a guided, structured build), the capstone is self-directed: learners choose the deliverable, design the prompt strategy, build it, and defend their process. The session closes with the construction of a personalized next-step roadmap — a living document that turns course completion into ongoing professional growth. Learners leave not just with a finished project, but with a clear identity: I am a ChatGPT Power User.
- 6.1Capstone Project — Your Signature AI-Powered DeliverableIncluded
- 6.2Your Personalized Next-Step Roadmap & Power User IdentityIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Small Business Owners
Use ChatGPT to write proposals, plan marketing campaigns, and handle communications — so you can run your business instead of being buried by it.
Teachers & Educators
Build lesson plans, differentiated materials, and parent communications in a fraction of the time, with an AI co-pilot that understands your classroom context.
Marketers & Creatives
Go from blank page to polished campaign brief, copy draft, or content calendar with industry-tuned prompts that actually produce professional-quality output.
Healthcare Professionals
Streamline patient communication drafts, research summaries, and administrative writing so you can spend more of your energy where it counts most.
Lawyers & Legal Professionals
Learn to use ChatGPT as a legal research and drafting co-pilot — building brief outlines, summarizing documents, and accelerating the prep work that eats your day.
Busy Executives & Managers
Master the advanced shortcuts and multi-step workflows that turn ChatGPT into a genuine decision-support and communication tool for high-stakes, high-volume work.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
If you've ever typed something into ChatGPT, stared at a bland, generic response, and thought "I must be doing this wrong" — I want you to know: you're not broken, and you're not behind. You just haven't had a clear playbook yet. That's exactly what I built this for.
I know what it feels like to look at a tool that everyone says is going to change everything, and still feel like you're missing some secret decoder ring. The internet is full of ChatGPT "tips and tricks" that are either too shallow to stick or too technical to touch. What's almost impossible to find is a structured, honest, practical path that meets you where you are — in your industry, with your actual workload — and walks you out the other side as a genuine power user. That gap is why this Playbook exists.
Here's what I want you to know about how I've designed this: every single segment ends with you finishing something real. Not a quiz, not a reflection prompt — a real task, done with ChatGPT, that you could use tomorrow. We start with the mindset shift (because how you think about the tool changes everything), move into the five core mental models that power users live by, and then spend a serious amount of time in guided practice at three escalating difficulty levels. By the time you hit your industry project in Module 4, you're not guessing — you're building with confidence.
I'm also a realist about the traps. Most people stay stuck at beginner level not because they're not smart enough, but because nobody told them about vague prompts, blind trust in outputs, and skipping iteration. We tackle all three of those directly, in Module 2, with specific fixes you can apply immediately. And because I know ChatGPT will keep evolving, I've built in a whole segment on how to stay current so this investment keeps paying off for years, not just weeks.
If you're a small business owner, a teacher, a marketer, a healthcare worker, a lawyer, a student, or an executive — this was made for you. Not a generic "you." Your-industry, your-tasks, your-language you. The industry-lens framework we build in Session 1 shapes everything that comes after it.
Twenty hours from now, you'll have a complete project, a personalized roadmap, and a toolkit of reusable prompts ready to deploy. More than that, you'll have a new relationship with the most powerful productivity tool of our era — and you'll know exactly how to use it. I can't wait to see what you build. Let's go.
— Leigh Baumann
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