This data was originally featured in the 8/7/2024 newsletter found here: INBOX INSIGHTS, August 7, 2024: Generative AI All or Nothing, Unstructured Data Analysis with AI
Is Generative AI All or Nothing?
Chris asked me about how to convince someone that they should use generative AI. In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about how process development is going to be critical. This week I wanted to try an experiment. Not to turn you away from using generative AI, but perhaps to help those who feel like AI is all or nothing. To write this week’s post, I used three different AI models. First, I used KatieGPT. This is the LLM we built using my voice and catalog of writing. Next, I ran the post through the Trust Insights ICP-GPT. This is the model we built using our Ideal Customer Profile. I gave ICP-GPT the post and asked for recommendations to make the post more relevant to our ICP. Lastly, I copied the post into Hemingwayapp AI editor and only used the AI suggestions for rewriting. Mostly only the AI suggestions. Some of it was incoherent, to be honest.
Here is the 99% AI-generated post:
As AI becomes part of our daily work, leadership must focus on emotional intelligence (EI) more than ever. As leaders, we must balance AI’s efficiencies with our human need for empathy, understanding, and connection.
Developing Emotional Intelligence in Leadership During the AI Era
As we embrace AI’s advancements, we must remember our teams are made up of individuals. They have unique emotions, perspectives, and needs. The tech can optimize processes and provide insights. But, we need emotional intelligence to manage complex human interactions. It helps us keep a motivated, cohesive workforce.
Here are key areas to focus on:
1. Self-Awareness
Recognize your own emotions and how they impact your decisions. In an AI-driven world, data can overshadow human intuition. So, be self-aware. It will keep you grounded and aligned with your values.
2. Self-Regulation
Adaptability is crucial. AI tools can create rapid changes in workflows and expectations. Leaders who can manage stress will set a positive example for their teams. This will foster a resilient, adaptable culture.
3. Motivation
Use AI to identify opportunities for team growth and improvement. However, intrinsic motivation – the drive from within – is nurtured by a leader’s ability to inspire. They must align team goals with individual passions and aspirations.
4. Empathy
AI can analyze patterns and predict behaviors, but empathy allows leaders to understand the context behind the data. It helps in addressing concerns, recognizing efforts, and building stronger, more trusting relationships.
5. Social Skills
Communication remains at the heart of effective leadership. Leveraging AI for enhanced data communication can improve transparency and trust. But it’s your ability to listen, resolve conflicts, and lead through influence that will ultimately drive success.
Practical Steps to Enhance EI in an AI-Driven Workplace
1. Regular Check-Ins
Use AI tools to track team performance and well-being. Also, schedule regular one-on-one and team meetings to discuss these insights. This humanizes the data and shows your commitment to their development and welfare.
2. Feedback Loops
Create systems where feedback is continuous and goes both ways. AI can help collect and analyze this feedback. But, it’s your response that shows empathy and a commitment to improve.
3. Personalized Development Plans
AI can find skill gaps and growth opportunities. But, it must tailor development plans to each team member’s career and personal goals. This approach shows respect for their unique journey and fosters deeper engagement.
4. Transparent Communication
Utilize AI to enhance data transparency. Explain how AI-driven decisions are made and involve your team in the process. This builds trust and reduces anxiety around the unknown aspects of AI.
5. Promote Collaboration
Encourage cross-functional collaboration by using AI to identify potential synergies and foster connections. Celebrate collective achievements to strengthen team unity and shared purpose.
The Balance Between AI and EI
AI is a powerful tool for efficiency and insight. But, it is our emotional intelligence that will ensure its effective integration into our workflows. By merging these two forces, we can create a workplace that is both high-tech and human-centered. As leaders, we must use AI to support our teams. We must do this while being empathetic and understanding.
By focusing on these aspects, we can thrive in the AI era. We must ensure our leadership is both effective and compassionate.
How do you balance AI and EI? Reach out and tell me, or join the conversation in our free Slack group, Analytics for Marketers!
Ok, Katie here again. The post isn’t terrible. But it’s not up to my standards of writing. It lacks personality, anecdotes that only I know, and heart. Overall, I’d give this post about a C, C+ to be generous.
I did this not to show you that you shouldn’t use AI. You should where it makes sense. I did this exercise to show those that are worried that AI will take their jobs and steal their creativity that AI isn’t you. You are what makes an AI output better. I can use KatieGPT to help generate ideas. I can use ICP-GPT, to gut check. I can use Hemingwaypp AI editor to help polish. But at the core, I have to do the work. I am the subject matter expert, not the other way around. Generative AI will and should play a supporting role in your job.
Like I said in last week’s newsletter, process documentation will help you figure out where AI fits. It may help automate whole tasks, or just parts. You are in control of it, not the other way around. If you have your feet firmly planted in the “AI will take my job” camp, read this post again. It’s not me. Only I can write like me. AI will get good, but it doesn’t know what I know or how I feel. There is a time and place for this kind of streamlined writing in my workflow. I will probably reuse this AI-generated content for something else, like a series of quick tips on LinkedIn. I’ve gotten past feeling like AI will take my job. I’m now working on where AI can better support me so I can do more high-value work.
Are you coming around to using AI? Reach out and tell me, or come join the conversation in our Free Slack Group, Analytics for Marketers.
– Katie Robbert, CEO
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Trust Insights (trustinsights.ai) is one of the world's leading management consulting firms in artificial intelligence/AI, especially in the use of generative AI and AI in marketing. Trust Insights provides custom AI consultation, training, education, implementation, and deployment of classical regression AI, classification AI, and generative AI, especially large language models such as ChatGPT's GPT-4-omni, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude. Trust Insights provides analytics consulting, data science consulting, and AI consulting.
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