# Train Your Skills

> Free courses on AI, automation and modern work skills


## Posts

- [Deliver and close](https://train-your-skills.com/deliver-and-close/): Tracking progress, recovering from slippage, handover, retrospectives and measuring value later.
- [Publish and look after it](https://train-your-skills.com/publish-and-look-after-it/): Publishing, domains, costs, owning your code, maintenance and when to bring in a developer.
- [Run it for real](https://train-your-skills.com/run-n8n-workflows-for-real/): Monitoring, costs, security, safe changes and documentation, and automating one real task.
- [Build your prompt library](https://train-your-skills.com/build-your-prompt-library/): Turn your best prompts into templates, set up your assistant to remember your context, and stay safe with what you share.
- [Measure and improve](https://train-your-skills.com/measure-and-improve/): How to track citations, mentions and AI visits with free tools first, and a monthly routine to keep improving.
- [Risks, changes and communication](https://train-your-skills.com/risks-changes-and-communication/): A risk register, a process for change requests, and status reports people read.
- [Test it like a user](https://train-your-skills.com/test-it-like-a-user/): A simple test plan, the cases AI-built apps miss, phones and accessibility, and fixing in priority order.
- [Make it reliable](https://train-your-skills.com/make-n8n-workflows-reliable/): Retries, error handling, error alert workflows and testing unusual cases.
- [Check before you trust](https://train-your-skills.com/check-before-you-trust/): Why assistants invent facts, a checking routine for work that matters, and how to test a prompt before relying on it.
- [Earn trust beyond your site](https://train-your-skills.com/earn-trust-beyond-your-site/): Why mentions, reviews and discussions elsewhere shape what answer engines say about you, and how to build them honestly.
- [Choose how to run it](https://train-your-skills.com/choose-how-to-run-it/): Predictive, agile and hybrid approaches, Kanban and Scrum, a working rhythm and the right tool.
- [Data, users and secrets](https://train-your-skills.com/data-users-and-secrets/): What changes when an app stores data, the security mistakes AI tools make, and a checklist anyone can run.
- [Add AI to a workflow](https://train-your-skills.com/add-ai-to-an-n8n-workflow/): The AI nodes worth knowing, prompts and costs, keeping a person in the loop, and an AI support triage.
- [Break big tasks into steps](https://train-your-skills.com/break-big-tasks-into-steps/): Turn big jobs into chains of smaller prompts that plan, draft, review and refine, and when to use reasoning models.
- [Make your site readable for AI](https://train-your-skills.com/make-your-site-readable-for-ai/): The technical checks that decide whether answer engines can reach and read your pages, explained without code.
- [Plan the work](https://train-your-skills.com/plan-the-work/): Work breakdown, honest estimates, dependencies and the critical path, milestones and owners.
- [Build in small steps](https://train-your-skills.com/build-in-small-steps/): One change per prompt, testing after each, precise bug reports, checkpoints and getting out of loops.
- [Connect your apps](https://train-your-skills.com/connect-your-apps-with-n8n/): Credentials, app nodes and HTTP requests, and working with lists of items, with a morning news digest.
- [Show the format, give examples](https://train-your-skills.com/show-the-format-give-examples/): Use examples, structure and precise output formats to get results in exactly the shape you need.
- [Write answers worth quoting](https://train-your-skills.com/write-answers-worth-quoting/): How engines pick the passages they quote, and six writing habits that make yours the one they choose.
- [Define the project](https://train-your-skills.com/define-the-project/): Goals you can check, scope in and out, a charter the sponsor agrees to, and a stakeholder map.
- [Plan before you prompt](https://train-your-skills.com/plan-before-you-prompt/): A one-page app brief, what to leave out, and a first prompt that makes the AI plan before it builds.
- [Triggers and data](https://train-your-skills.com/n8n-triggers-and-data/): Forms, webhooks and schedules, expressions, conditions and data tables, with a lead form you publish.
- [Brief it like a colleague](https://train-your-skills.com/brief-it-like-a-colleague/): Give an assistant the context in your head: goal, audience, background, constraints and what good looks like.
- [Find the questions that matter](https://train-your-skills.com/find-the-questions-that-matter/): How questions asked to an assistant differ from keywords, where to find the real ones, and how to turn them into a question map.
- [What a project is, and what success means](https://train-your-skills.com/what-a-project-is/): Projects versus routine work, value as the measure of success, and the habits that most improve results.
- [What vibe coding is good for](https://train-your-skills.com/what-vibe-coding-is-good-for/): What vibe coding is, the tools, where AI-built apps succeed and fail, and how to choose a first project.
- [How a workflow works](https://train-your-skills.com/how-an-n8n-workflow-works/): Triggers, nodes, items and executions, cloud or self-hosted, saving and publishing, and your first workflow.
- [How AI assistants read your prompt](https://train-your-skills.com/how-ai-assistants-read-your-prompt/): What an assistant knows when you ask it something, the four parts of a good prompt, and a baseline of your own prompts.
- [How answer engines choose what to cite](https://train-your-skills.com/how-answer-engines-choose-what-to-cite/): What AEO is, how ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers pick their sources, and where your site stands today.

## Pages

- [Project Management](https://train-your-skills.com/project-management/): Run projects from kickoff to delivery without losing scope, time or people.
- [Vibe Coding](https://train-your-skills.com/vibe-coding/): Describe what you want and build a working app with AI, step by step, without being a developer.
- [AI Automation with n8n](https://train-your-skills.com/ai-automation-n8n/): Build workflows that connect your apps and add AI steps where they help, with five tested templates.
- [Prompt Engineering](https://train-your-skills.com/prompt-engineering/): Write prompts that get reliable, reusable results from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI assistant.
- [AEO: Answer Engine Optimization](https://train-your-skills.com/aeo/): Get your content cited when people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers.
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- [Paid Courses](https://train-your-skills.com/paid-courses/): Our free courses give you a solid start on each skill. Paid courses will take you further, with more depth, more practice and more help along the way.
- [Free Online Courses](https://train-your-skills.com/free-courses/): Practical courses on the skills work asks for now: using AI well, automating repetitive work, building with AI, getting found in AI search and running projects.
- [Certificates](https://train-your-skills.com/certificates/): Every course on Train Your Skills is free, with its lessons, tests and workbook.
- [Certificate](https://train-your-skills.com/certificate/)
- [My courses](https://train-your-skills.com/start/)
- [About Train Your Skills](https://train-your-skills.com/about/): Train Your Skills makes free, practical courses on the skills work asks for now: using AI well, automating repetitive work, building with AI, getting found in AI search and running projects.
- [Courses](https://train-your-skills.com/courses/): Five areas, three courses each. Every course has 5 to 7 lessons, an exercise and a test in each lesson, and an optional certificate at the end.
- [Home](https://train-your-skills.com/): Short, practical courses on AI, automation and modern work. Every lesson ends with a short test, and every course comes with a workbook. All free.
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