Using skills

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OpenAI Academy guide on using pre-built and custom skills across business departments (Marketing, Sales, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Customer Success, IT, Legal) to automate routine processes and standardize outputs. Each skill is designed to convert inputs (notes, data, documents) into structured, consistent organizational deliverables.

Learn how to create and use ChatGPT skills to build reusable workflows, automate recurring tasks, and ensure consistent, high-quality outputs.
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# Using skills Source: [https://openai.com/academy/skills/](https://openai.com/academy/skills/) **Department** **Reusable process skill** **Tool\-based skill** **Conventions/standards skill** Marketing **campaign\-brief\-builder**Create a skill that turns a rough marketing idea into a complete campaign brief, including the goal, target audience, key message, channels, and timeline\. **multi\-channel\-performance\-digest**Create a skill that pulls key metrics from connected analytics sources and drafts a weekly multi\-channel performance summary with insights and recommended actions\. **brand\-voice\-content\-polish**Create a skill that rewrites marketing drafts to match our brand voice and standard content structure\. Sales **discovery\-to\-next\-steps**Create a skill that converts discovery call notes into customer pain points, qualification summary, and a clear next\-steps plan\. **sf\-opportunity\-health\-check**Create a skill that reviews Salesforce opportunity fields and recent activity, plus call notes if connected, to flag deal risks and recommend actions\. **outbound\-email\-personalization\-style**Create a skill that produces outbound sales emails using our team’s preferred structure, tone, and length\. Finance **monthly\-close\-narrative**Create a skill that drafts a monthly close readout summarizing variance drivers, key risks, and decisions needed\. **budget\-vs\-actuals\-explainer**Create a skill that pulls budget and actuals from connected sheets or finance systems and explains variances in plain language\. **finance\-memo\-standard**Create a skill that formats financial analysis into a consistent finance memo with assumptions, method, results, and sensitivities\. Engineering **design\-doc\-to\-plan**Create a skill that converts a design doc into an execution plan with milestones, owners, dependencies, and open questions\. **jira\-sprint\-planner\-from\-notes**Create a skill that turns sprint planning notes into Jira\-ready epics and stories with acceptance criteria and estimate placeholders\. **pr\-description\-and\-changelog\-style**Create a skill that standardizes pull request descriptions and release notes according to our engineering conventions\. Operations **ops\-playbook\-writer**Create a skill that turns an operational process into a standard operating procedure with steps, handoffs, SLAs, and exception handling\. **ops\-report\-from\-sheets**Create a skill that pulls operational KPIs from connected spreadsheets and drafts a weekly operations report\. **ops\-update\-template**Create a skill that writes operations updates in a consistent format covering what changed, impact, actions, and owners\. Customer Success **qbr\-storyline\-builder**Create a skill that builds a QBR outline covering outcomes, adoption, value delivered, risks, and renewal plan\. **account\-brief\-from\-systems**Create a skill that pulls account context from connected CRM, call, and usage sources to create an account briefing and recommended priorities\. **customer\-comms\-tone\-guide**Create a skill that drafts customer emails in our preferred tone—clear, direct, and professional—with standard sections\. IT **incident\-postmortem\-writer**Create a skill that produces a blameless incident postmortem including timeline, root cause, and prevention actions\. **servicenow\-ticket\-triage**Create a skill that summarizes new ServiceNow tickets, or similar IT tickets, and proposes routing, priority, and next actions\. **it\-change\-communication\-template**Create a skill that writes IT change notices with consistent language for risk, timing, and user impact\. Legal **contract\-review\-summary**Create a skill that creates a structured contract review summary with issues, fallback positions, and requested redlines\. **policy\-qa\-from\-knowledgebase**Create a skill that looks up and summarizes policy language from connected legal knowledge sources and cites the relevant sections\. **legal\-memo\-standard**Create a skill that drafts internal legal memos in a consistent format with the question, short answer, analysis, and recommendation\. HR **interview\-kit\-builder**Create a skill that creates role scorecards, interview questions, and evaluation rubrics from a job scope\. **job\-post\-from\-requisition**Create a skill that pulls role details from Workday or a similar system and drafts a job post plus an outreach blurb\. **people\-comms\-style**Create a skill that writes HR announcements in our standard tone with inclusive and compliance\-friendly phrasing\. Management **weekly\-status\-multi\-format**Create a skill that turns raw team updates into three outputs: a team update, an executive summary, and a risk\-and\-asks note\. **team\-health\-digest**Create a skill that pulls signals from connected tools such as Jira, Sheets, and Slack to summarize team momentum, blockers, and current focus\. **1on1\-agenda\-template**Create a skill that generates consistent 1:1 agendas with coaching prompts, goals, and follow\-up items\. Executives **exec\-decision\-brief**Create a skill that converts messy inputs into a one\-page decision brief with options, tradeoffs, and a recommendation\. **exec\-briefing\-from\-systems**Create a skill that pulls cross\-functional signals from connected sources to draft a daily or weekly executive briefing\. **board\-readout\-style**Create a skill that writes board\-ready updates with crisp structure, metrics\-first framing, and minimal jargon\.

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