This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Mark Briggs, an govt coach, AI strategist, and creator from the Seattle area, explains why your “private working system” wants an improve, and find out how to use AI to get extra time again in your day.
- Mark shares sensible suggestions for turning scattered notes right into a helpful information base, consolidating your “digital junk drawer” into AI-powered instruments that may floor insights.
- He explains how giving AI assistants particular personas — whether or not it’s a stand-in on your boss or a colleague — can form the type of suggestions and steerage they supply.
- We additionally discuss utilizing AI to interrupt procrastination, generate assembly follow-ups, and flag the “most blatant objection” to your concepts.
- And for enjoyable, we play a spherical of “Bot or Not,” making an attempt to inform the distinction between bios of a human collaborator and an AI assistant.
Wait a second, what occurs to human govt coaches on the earth of AI? Mark solutions that query by stating that whereas teaching apps exist already, the accountability of trying one other individual within the eye is one thing AI can’t exchange.
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Put your notes in a single place: Cease scattering ideas throughout Google Docs, Evernote, paper notebooks, and sticky notes. Consolidating them into one platform lets AI summarize, join concepts, and extract insights you’d by no means discover by yourself.
Ask AI the “most blatant objection”: Earlier than you ship a proposal or share an concept, have AI let you know what the pushback will likely be. Mark makes use of this trick to see blind spots and strengthen his work earlier than others level them out.
Create a BossGPT: As an alternative of ready for a supervisor’s suggestions, prepare a customized GPT on their type and priorities. Use it as a stand-in to pressure-test your concepts and get instantaneous responses that mirror how your actual boss would possibly react.
Use AI to generate assembly follow-ups: On the finish of a gathering, ask three questions: What did we determine? Who’s accountable? Who else must know? Share the solutions together with your workforce to create accountability and use the output from the assembly to construct an institutional reminiscence.
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Summarize your individual progress: On the finish of a undertaking or a overview interval, ask your private AI to investigate your assortment of notes and assembly transcripts. Mark does this with six months of his shopper notes in Notion to search out “key areas of progress” and has even requested his AI to summarize his whole yr of labor to establish alternatives for the subsequent yr.
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Problem your workforce to rewrite their job descriptions: As an alternative of simply encouraging normal studying, give your workforce a particular mission: discover AI instruments to automate the tedious elements of their jobs to allow them to concentrate on work that requires uniquely human abilities.
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