PSA: I saw a post this morning about AI usage and how younger workers are going to educate the rest of us because "AI is second nature to them."
You can see my response in the picture. 🤦🏽♂️
Maybe they can educate us on text messaging and random made up words ("rizz" and "bruh" chief among them) but they are not going to educate most of us on AI.
Why?
Because those that get the most from AI know how processes work. They know how workflows happen. They know where information exists.
And they use AI to amplify their efforts in those areas.
I've been doing a number of trainings for internal HR, talent, and learning teams on AI across the country (⭐⭐⭐ping me if you want details on how I can come work with your team!) It's been an incredible opportunity to see the big ideas that come from all of you in the community. And I tell every one of those groups that the best users of AI know what happens next, and what happens after that, etc.
This is what I mean 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Example:
Junior staffer: I need a training curriculum for a leadership development course.
Me: I need a training curriculum for a leadership development course that weaves in our core values of integrity, service, and honoring others. With that, I need an icebreaker activity to kick off social connections, a feedback survey to follow up afterward, and a script for a video our CEO can record talking about why leadership is critical to the future of the business. 💡⚡💡
Those of us with experience get more out of AI because we know the right questions to ask. We don't just grab some random prompt off the internet and think our work is done.
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I have nothing against our junior staffers and team members, but while they can use AI to write that bussin' term paper and get away with it or use it for a number of random life applications, they don't know what they don't know about work. They might convince one of their more experienced peers to use ChatGPT or another app, but they won't know how to help them get the most from it because they lack context.
It's the same reason that every time I speak to an audience of HR leaders like I did earlier this week in Wisconsin, there's not a SINGLE HAND that goes up when I say "did you learn everything you need to win at HR in a classroom?"
I learned a lot of good things getting my degree in HR, but I didn't learn some of the most important parts of what it means to be good at HR sitting in college. I learned them hands on.
Let's stop saying this, it's sus. Thanks.
(my teens would be alternatively thrilled and horrified at my usage of their lingo here, no cap) 😂
You can see my response in the picture. 🤦🏽♂️
Maybe they can educate us on text messaging and random made up words ("rizz" and "bruh" chief among them) but they are not going to educate most of us on AI.
Why?
Because those that get the most from AI know how processes work. They know how workflows happen. They know where information exists.
And they use AI to amplify their efforts in those areas.
I've been doing a number of trainings for internal HR, talent, and learning teams on AI across the country (⭐⭐⭐ping me if you want details on how I can come work with your team!) It's been an incredible opportunity to see the big ideas that come from all of you in the community. And I tell every one of those groups that the best users of AI know what happens next, and what happens after that, etc.
This is what I mean 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Example:
Junior staffer: I need a training curriculum for a leadership development course.
Me: I need a training curriculum for a leadership development course that weaves in our core values of integrity, service, and honoring others. With that, I need an icebreaker activity to kick off social connections, a feedback survey to follow up afterward, and a script for a video our CEO can record talking about why leadership is critical to the future of the business. 💡⚡💡
Those of us with experience get more out of AI because we know the right questions to ask. We don't just grab some random prompt off the internet and think our work is done.
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I have nothing against our junior staffers and team members, but while they can use AI to write that bussin' term paper and get away with it or use it for a number of random life applications, they don't know what they don't know about work. They might convince one of their more experienced peers to use ChatGPT or another app, but they won't know how to help them get the most from it because they lack context.
It's the same reason that every time I speak to an audience of HR leaders like I did earlier this week in Wisconsin, there's not a SINGLE HAND that goes up when I say "did you learn everything you need to win at HR in a classroom?"
I learned a lot of good things getting my degree in HR, but I didn't learn some of the most important parts of what it means to be good at HR sitting in college. I learned them hands on.
Let's stop saying this, it's sus. Thanks.
(my teens would be alternatively thrilled and horrified at my usage of their lingo here, no cap) 😂
