How can you use AI in YOUR work as a leader?

You have read and heard me referring to Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan’s “Who not how” multiple times – and I will keep doing so, because Repetition is Good!

What if the “Who” in this case is an AI?

What if instead of asking yourself “How can I do this” or “Who can help me do this,” you learned to ask, “How can AI help me do this?” Geoff Woods in “The AI-Driven Leader” goes into quite a bit of detail on how training yourself to ask that simple question can change your work – and life.

This includes the fact that AI can help you figure out how to best use AI to accomplish whatever it is you are trying to do.

Many of us have “dabbled” with AI; how can you not? I myself would utilize ChatGPT for suggestions (great for recipe ideas), to unlock my thinking, or to help code a quick function for my website. But that’s about it, and with results of varying quality. I’m sure many of you have done the same.

What Geoff’s book helped me to realize was AI has a role in the creative process – and the role is of a partner rather than a tool, which is how I had been treating it until that point. Just that simple mental switch supercharged the usefulness of my AI tools subscription immediately.

I then attended Callan Faulkner’s (of Uncommon Business) masterclass – and masterclass it was! There were many similar principles to Geoff’s (confirmation that it works), plus tons of hands-on examples right there and then. I didn’t learn many new concepts. BUT, my mind was further opened to the possibilities of AI in my and my clients’ line of work. I completed the masterclass with plenty of inspiration, and I can see the impact of that class in my work daily.

Am I an AI expert now? Absolutely not. However, I now do use AI much more, and by practice I am getting better and better results all the time. I know I am nowhere near the limits, and those limits are undoubtedly disappearing much faster than I will ever be able to inch near them.

I’m now – and I urge you to – constantly asking myself the question: “How can AI help me do this?” With this question in mind I am always finding new ways for it to do so.

Here are a few disjointed examples of how AI helped me just this last week:

• Sort out through my cards, figuring out connections, repeating themes etc. (ongoing process)
• SEO optimization of the cards, suggesting the right quotes, writing meta descriptions etc.
• Research and analysis of a client’s market
• Analysis of client’s financials
• Help with architecting an on-line assessment process I’m working on
• Jump-start of writing a step-by-step hiring process based on a conversation with a client
• etc.

In the past, I would either be slogging through those tasks myself, or look for the “who” for each of them. 

The one thing I’m not willing to partner with AI is help with writing the cards themselves – I enjoy it too much!

Where and how do you use AI? Does it feel like you are using it well or could learn more to leverage it better for your business?