When Marine Corps generals take a new command, the first thing they do is send their troops a user manual.
Their strengths. Their weaknesses. Their style. How to communicate with them. How to challenge them without getting your head bitten off.
Now it’s your turn.
A $10 toaster comes with a 60‑page manual.
And yet you — a complex, sophisticated, occasionally irrational human being — leave your team guessing.
How do you make decisions? What triggers you? What’s the fastest way to get your attention? What are the things your team figured out after 6 months of trial and error?
They know. They joke about it behind your back. They’ve adapted around your quirks.
But the new hire who just joined? The project team you’re working with for the first time? They’re starting from zero.
Write your operating manual. Share it. Save everyone 6 months.
The YOUSER Manual is an AI-powered skill that walks you through writing a one-page personal operating manual in about 60 minutes.
Not a personality test. Not a 360. Not a corporate exercise you’ll forget about.
A real, honest, one-page document that tells people how to work with you — written by you, sharpened by the people who know you best.
4 phases. 60 minutes. One page that changes how people work with you.
Phase 01 — Brain dump
The skill asks you targeted questions about your style, communication, strengths, and blind spots. You answer fast — bullets, not essays. First instinct, not interview answers.
Phase 02 — Sharpen
You pull in your 360, personality tests, performance reviews, and real quotes from colleagues. The skill helps you cut the generic stuff using a brutal filter: if saying the opposite would get you fired, the statement is too obvious — delete it.
Phase 03 — Pressure test
You send your draft to 1-5 people who actually know you. The skill gives you the exact email to send and the one question that unlocks the best feedback.
Phase 04 — Ship it
You finalize your one-pager and distribute it. The skill gives you 3 distribution levels — from your direct team to your entire LinkedIn network.
You’re not the first. This has been battle‑tested.
I’m kind of stunned that every manager on earth doesn’t do it. Those are things I would learn in six months of work with you anyway. Why would I not want to know them on day one?
Every time he starts a new project, he hands his team a one-page user manual — written entirely by the people who’ve worked with him before. His strengths. His triggers. His weaknesses. No guessing.
After sharing his “owner’s manual” with his team, formerly timid employees started questioning him in meetings and asking him to be more direct. His effectiveness improved — not because he changed, but because his team stopped tiptoeing around him.
If you know what your limitations are, you can compensate and warn people. They understand your intent better if they understand you.
Decades of experience, compressed into a conversation.
This skill was built from real methodology — the same kind I use to extract experience from experts and inject it into teams.
Marines, Bain consultants, Wharton researchers, hospital CEOs — they all figured out that a one-page user manual changes how teams work together. I took what they learned, stripped it down to what actually works, and packaged it into an AI skill that walks you through the whole thing.
That’s what I do. I run a lab called Madeleine where I capture experience that’s trapped in people’s heads — and turn it into tools others can use. The YOUSER Manual is one of those tools. It’s yours.
- A guided conversation that asks the right questions in the right order
- The “HR test” — a brutal filter to kill every generic, useless statement
- Ready-to-send email templates for peer feedback
- A one-page template with 4 sections: My Style, Communicate with Me, My Strengths, My Blind Spots
- A distribution playbook with 3 levels of sharing
Download the skill. Load it into Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI assistant. Start talking. The AI does the rest — it asks, it pushes back, it helps you cut the fluff. You end up with a one-page manual that’s actually worth reading.
Your team already knows your quirks. They’ve known for months. Why not make it official?
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