Zenith Performance Solutions

Zenith Performance Solutions ZPS is your path to employee excellence. We offer learning and development services that .

Whether it is eLearning, virtual Instructor Led Training, or Instructor-Led Training, let us help you create custom content. We offer the following services:
* Custom Course Development (Instructor Led, eLearning,mLearning)
* Technical Writing
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Most people start using AI in the development phase.I get it. That’s where it feels most obvious. Write my script. Draft...
06/18/2026

Most people start using AI in the development phase.

I get it. That’s where it feels most obvious. Write my script. Draft my content. Build my Rise template.

But the phase where AI earns the most ROI in my workflow? Analysis.

Before I write one learning objective, I use AI to pressure-test my thinking on the performance problem. I share my hypothesis, the stakeholder request, what I know about the audience, and I ask it to push back.

It consistently surfaces questions I hadn’t thought to ask. It builds my SME interview question bank faster and better organized than anything I’d draft from scratch.

The analysis is better because I have a thinking partner available at any hour who will engage with my problem seriously.

That’s worth five minutes of setup before you ever open a design doc.

Try it on your next project. See what shifts.

What’s the first thing you usually hand off to AI? Curious what your starting point looks like.

Real talk: the AI workflow posts you’re seeing are mostly highlight reel.Nobody’s sharing the outputs they rewrote. The ...
06/17/2026

Real talk: the AI workflow posts you’re seeing are mostly highlight reel.

Nobody’s sharing the outputs they rewrote. The prompts that missed. The moment you realize the AI response looked right and wasn’t.

Here’s what I want you to know: that’s not a problem with AI. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

You bring the context. You bring the judgment. You bring the expertise that your organization actually hired you for. AI handles the parts that don’t require those things, faster.

That’s the version that makes you more effective.

Blog 3 of my “AI as Your Creative Partner” series is up, and it’s the real version, phase by phase, including what I had to fix. Link in bio.

What part of your workflow are you still figuring out with AI? Drop it below.

There's something AI cannot do, no matter how good the prompt is.Know your learners.It doesn't know your manufacturing f...
06/13/2026

There's something AI cannot do, no matter how good the prompt is.

Know your learners.

It doesn't know your manufacturing floor audience reads at a sixth-grade level. It doesn't know your sales team will click through anything that doesn't get to the point in the first 30 seconds. It doesn't know your new hire cohort needs psychological safety built into the experience before they'll engage honestly.

You know that. And that knowledge changes everything about how you design.

This is why AI is a multiplier of expertise, not a replacement for it. The people who use it well already know what good learning design looks like. They can tell when AI has given them something solid and when it's technically right but completely wrong for the audience.

That judgment is yours. And it's not replaceable.

If you want to dig into where AI actually earns its place in an in-house workflow, the full blog post is linked.

https://www.zenithperformancesolutions.com/what-ai-is-actually-good-at-in-an-id-workflow-and-where-it-still-needs-you/

Honest confession from an in-house ID: I used to spend 30 minutes building SME interview questions from scratch before e...
06/13/2026

Honest confession from an in-house ID: I used to spend 30 minutes building SME interview questions from scratch before every kickoff.

Not because it was hard. Because I knew what I needed to find out and it just... took time I didn't have.

Now I give AI the brief, the performance context, and the meeting window. It drafts a starting set of behavior-centered questions in minutes. I edit them for the SME, the context, and the gap I'm actually trying to understand.

30 minutes down to 10. And my kickoffs are better because I'm not scrambling to write questions on the drive over.

This is where AI earns its place in an ID workflow. Not the thinking. The setup before the thinking.

What's one task in your workflow that's technically correct but just... takes too long? Might be worth trying this with.

06/12/2026

How I’m using AI today: for every new project that I start, I typically create a project folder and then I upload all of the information related to that project. I add files instructions and sometimes a skill file. Then Claude and I start collaborating.

06/11/2026

You don’t have to start from scratch every time a proposal lands on your desk.

I sat down with Claude and built a custom skill file that generates my ZPS proposals exactly the way I want them. Same structure, same tone, same brand. Every time.

But the part I want you to take away isn’t about my proposals.

If you’re in-house, you’re building the same documents over and over. Training proposals for stakeholders. Onboarding outlines. Project scoping docs. Post-training summaries. Any document with a repeatable structure is a candidate for this.

You train the AI on your context once. It learns how your organization thinks, what your proposals need to include, and how to get to a usable first draft fast. You focus on the part that requires actually knowing your audience.

You already have the expertise. This just gets you to the draft faster.

What’s the document you rebuild from scratch every single time? Drop it below. 👇

06/10/2026

Team of one problems: nobody to catch what you miss before a deadline. Here’s one way to pressure-test your own work when the office is empty.

You're not using AI wrong. You might just be skipping the step that matters most.AI gives you a starting point. A faster...
06/10/2026

You're not using AI wrong. You might just be skipping the step that matters most.

AI gives you a starting point. A faster first draft. A pressure-test you didn't have time to run on your own.

It does not give you a finished product.

The IDs who are using AI well in their workflow aren't trusting the first output. They're editing it for their learners, their organization, and the performance problem they're actually solving.

That's the difference between AI content that lands and AI content that feels like it was written by no one, for no one.

One thing to try this week: take your next AI output and read it like your most skeptical stakeholder would. What would they push back on? What doesn't sound like your organization? That's where your expertise shows up.

Where are you in your AI workflow right now? Still exploring, or have you landed on what works?



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06/07/2026

The way most people try to start with AI isn’t working. Here’s what actually does. One tedious task. Real context. See what comes back. Edit it. Repeat. Come learn with us inside Ignite Learning. Link in bio.

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