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One word a day to help you think, talk, and lead more clearly.

Word a Day is a free AI skill from The Kevin Eikenberry Group. Every morning it gives you, or your whole team, one precise word or one thinking tool worth owning. Each comes with what it means, why it matters at work, and one small thing to try today.

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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot. No sign-up required.

Today's wordVocabulary

tacit

TAS-it · adjective

In plain words: Understood or implied without being stated out loud.
Why it matters: Every team runs on tacit rules: who really makes the call, which deadlines are soft. New people fail by breaking rules nobody told them about. And when your most experienced person leaves, their tacit knowledge leaves too.
In use: "There was tacit agreement that nobody would push back on the plan. That's the problem."
Try it today: Ask one experienced person: "What do you do here that you've never seen written down?"

What you get

Ninety seconds a day. A sharper way of seeing your work.

Every word earns its place. After reading it, you can spot something you would have missed yesterday, or say something more exactly than you could before.

Precise vocabulary

Words you've seen but might not use with confidence, the ones that let you name what's happening instead of talking around it.

Like candor, equivocate, salient, perfunctory, zero-sum.

Thinking tools

Named ideas that change how you reason about decisions, people, and results. Once you know them, you see them everywhere.

Like Goodhart's law, survivorship bias, Chesterton's fence, regression to the mean.

In plain words

A one-sentence definition you could repeat in a meeting.

Why it matters

What the word helps you see, say, or decide at work.

In use

A realistic example drawn from your kind of work.

Try it today

One small action so the word sticks.

Built around you

For you, or for your whole team.

Answer four quick questions: how it should arrive, how many days a week, who it's for, and what time. The words and examples fit your world, whether that's a sales team, a hospital HR group, a plant floor, or just you.

Email

From your own inbox, to you or a small group.

Slack

A short post with a question that gets your team talking.

Microsoft Teams

The same, formatted for your Teams channel.

Text message

A two-line version that fits on your phone.

Weekly themes

Each week follows a theme, like "Words for hard conversations," so the words build on each other.

A Friday recap

A quick look back at the week's words helps them stick. Prefer a lighter Friday? Make it recap only.

No repeats

It keeps track of every word you've had, so you always get something new.

Get it free

Pick the AI tool you already use.

Both versions are free, and there's nothing to sign up for. Download one and you're three steps from your first word.

For Claude

The full version. Remembers your settings and past words, and can post or send for you if you connect email, Slack, or Teams.

Download the Word a Day skill file.
In Claude, open Settings, find Skills, and upload the file.
In any chat, say Set up my word a day.

Download for Claude

Don't see Skills in your Claude settings? Use the other version below. It works in any Claude chat too.

For ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and others

The same instructions in one document. Works in any AI assistant that can read a file or a long message.

Download the Word a Day file.
Start a new chat and attach it, or paste it in. It works even better saved in a project, a custom GPT, or a Gemini Gem.
Say Set up my word a day.

Download for any AI Markdown version

Most tools don't remember between chats. At the end of a session, ask for your settings and word list, and paste them in next time so words never repeat.

Questions

Good to know

Is it really free?

Yes, with our compliments. Use it yourself, use it with your team, and pass it along to anyone who'd benefit.

Does it send the words automatically?

In Claude it can, if you connect your email, Slack, or Teams and use a version of Claude that supports scheduled tasks. Otherwise it writes a week at a time, and you schedule them with the schedule-send feature your email, Slack, or Teams already has. It takes a few minutes a week.

Can I use it with my team?

Yes. Tell it what kind of team you lead, and it picks words and writes examples for that work. Slack and Teams posts end with a question to get people talking.

What kinds of words will I get?

A mix of precise vocabulary and thinking tools, about half and half, picked to be thought-provoking without being heavy. No obscure dictionary trivia and no buzzwords. Each one is useful in a real conversation this week.

How does it avoid mistakes?

It's built to check definitions, word origins, and who coined each idea. It leaves out origins it can't confirm, and it flags ideas whose evidence is disputed. AI can still get things wrong, so give each word a quick read before you share it widely.

Do you track me?

No. We count visits and downloads so we know whether this is helping, and we note which site sent you here, like LinkedIn or Google. That's it: no cookies, no names, no addresses, nothing that identifies you.

Who made this?

The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a leadership development company led by Kevin Eikenberry. We help leaders and organizations grow. Meet Kevin.

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