Are You an ‘AI READY’ Leader: Beginner, Proficient or Expert?

Please see our ‘AI Ready’ Leaders checklist assessment below. These are the questions we are using to rate ‘AI Ready’ Leaders. They have been developed from our work with clients and extensive AI industry research.

Leaders are rated on 3 levels of mastery, Beginner, Proficient, or Expert. To move through these levels of expertise we are looking for their answers to demonstrate a deep understanding of the topic with examples of successful accomplishments. Once a leader finds their level of ‘AI Ready’ mastery the remaining topics and questions provide a road map towards becoming an ‘AI Ready’ Expert.

 

ARE YOU AN ‘AI READY’ LEADER?

MASTERY LEVEL – BEGINNER

1. GEN AI TASKS:
  • How many of the 10 plus tasks of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot et al have you used?
  • Which of the following use case actions have you found best to save time or eliminate the work you least like doing, generation, extraction, summarization, rewriting, classification, or Q&A?
  • How many of these have you integrated into your daily work life and which of these have you persuaded your team and organization to use on a regular basis?
2. GEN AI PROMPTS, UNIQUE CONTENT FOR  SPECIFIC AUDIENCES AND WORK ACTIVITIES:
  • How many of the following prompts do you use in your ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot et al enquiries… personal, context, task, format, exemplar, tone? What expertise have you gained in Prompt Engineering?
  • How do you go about generating unique content that is relevant and valuable (versus general) for a specific audience such as a unique customer or buyer persona? Which have you found to be the best prompt sequence and for what tasks and use cases?
  • Most business functions and almost half of all U.S. work activity can be augmented, automated or reinvented with Gen AI. What are the 3 most impactful AI Change-Driven work activities you have deployed in your organization and what was the impact on the people and the business?

MASTERY LEVEL – PROFICIENT

3. GEN AI AND ML BUSINESS APPLICATIONS:
  • What AI solutions have you used to date either internally as part of your products and services or externally as part of your customer offerings? What were the ‘use cases’ they addressed? How did AI accelerate this activity?
  • How did you go about selecting which AI solutions to use? Were they Gen AI or ML based. For those that were ML based, what kind of training data and algorithms did you use and for your predictions, did you use feature engineering or deep learning?
  • What challenges did you have to overcome? How has success with these use cases helped to delight your customers or grow your business?
4. WHAT TYPE OF AI CHANGE-DRIVEN LEADER ARE YOU?
  • Which of the following 3 AI Change-Driven Growth Profiles best matches your current expertise and where do you see potential for future growth?
  • How has your current expertise driven business growth and how might you impact this in the future?

MASTERY LEVEL – EXPERT

5. IS YOUR COMPANY ‘AI READY’?
  • How would you rate your company as being fully ‘AI Ready’? Strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree?
  • What have you put in place to make your company or your clients organization ‘AI Ready’?
  • Have you calculated the cost of not being fully ‘AI Ready’?
6. HOW MIGHT AI NEGATVELY IMPACT YOUR COMPANY, EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS?
  • What controls have you put in place to mitigate the risk of AI to your organization, employees, customers, and industry as a whole? Will this be more or less challenging when Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) applications become available?
  • How might AI impact your job over the next couple of years? What changes in roles and upskilling would be required to prevent you from slipping into career stagnation?
  • How could AI impact the jobs of your current team? What upskilling training are you putting in place?
7. HOW WILL AI MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY?
  • What are your aspirations for the AI Change-Driven world ahead for both the current task-like Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) applications and future human-like intelligence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?
  • How would you play a part in making this happen?
  • How would you help others to realize your AI aspirations?

If you are keen on gaining a better understanding of how ‘AI Ready’ you are or curious to learn more about how we source and evaluate visionary and transformative leaders that are ‘AI Ready’ and assemble high-achieving teams, then please reach out for a discussion

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