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The AI Enhanced Leader: 7 Practical Ways AI Can Help You Lead More Effectively
Ai isn't perfect. But neither are your people. Get the best from both.
Dave Kline
April 05, 2024
The AI-Enhanced MGMT Accelerator
We’re making a big change to our Top-Rated MGMT Accelerator program.
In addition to:
An engaged group of 50 high-trajectory leaders
8 live sessions to co-create your management system
1:1 coaching with me to solve your biggest leadership challenge
We’re adding a highly practical way to get leverage from AI at every step of the management process. If you’re not hands-on with AI, you’re falling behind. Let us help get you started!
The program starts April 30th, and seats are limited.
Read Time: 4 minutes
"AI won't replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI"
I've always aspired for the MGMT Playbook to be a conversation, not a dissertation.
And this week might achieve that ethos most effectively. I asked my 65,000 LinkedIn followers for practical examples of how they're using AI.
Their answers did not disappoint.
Generate High-Signal Interview Questions
"ChatGPT and Perplexity have been helpful when designing interview loops. I'll start with the job description and break down the key skills I'm attempting to get signal for in each stage.
From there, I can use an LLM to generate a long list of example questions for that interviewer. The first draft responses from the model usually aren't good enough to be used directly, but it's a great way to build momentum and creativity when writing up interview questions."
I've worked with some leaders who keep going, getting drafts of rubrics for grading the questions based on their targets. They'll also have ChatGPT draft emails advancing or rejecting candidates based on specific information from the searches and interviews.
Draft Agendas
"My favorite use of late … developing agendas for monthly and quarterly meetings. Prompt it with your goals, KPI's and any specific areas of concerns. Give it the timeframe and you get a solid agenda. Has been working great."
Our friend Marco Andre recently posted about using this to design an offsite. The value wasn't that it made a perfect offsite agenda. The value was that instead of sending someone off to do work and circling back for another meeting, they started iterating on a draft in 20 seconds.
Real-Time Coach for Introverts
"A client uses AI to help her formulate clear thoughts when she's on a Zoom call, so when it's her turn to speak, her answers are more polished."
Related, I've heard several managers, especially if they're upset or have gotten feedback on their tone, using ChatGPT to give them feedback or rewrite it differently. Those longwinded become concise. Those terse become diplomatic.