Leading For AI
AI can analyse and synthesize information, but it cannot replicate the depth of human cognition – interpret and make judgements. Testing and implementing AI requires a unique set of leadership skills.
It requires leaders to create an environment of psychological safety, where risk taking is encouraged or even incentivised, while at the same time maintain legitimacy in our decision making as we test new ways of working.
We must be able to detect and handle inherent bias while interpreting data effectively and ethically. In this SkillStack you’ll learn the tips and techniques to bring your team with you on the journey of transformation through developing your Leadership skills for AI.
Learning Objectives
Stephanie will help you explore the opportunities and impacts of AI on the people, culture, and workflows in your organisation. She will share the key factors to help you get started with AI and how to implement value-add tech + human integration that’s relevant to your team.
This lesson will explore how transformational leaders create a vision that inspires their followers, challenge the status quo, encourage creativity, and provide personalized support to foster development and growth. This SkillStack aims to equip you with the skills to implement transformational leadership practices in with your team to achieving outstanding results.
If trying something new, we first must be prepared to be wrong. Barbara will guide you through the science an art of creating psychological safety, through identifying the signals and what steps to take to improve it. This SkillStack will unlock your ability to influence great change for the better in your work environment, striving to do better, be better and inspire better.
This SkillStack will enable you to add your own perspectives, evaluate sources, and navigate the ethical considerations and biases that are inherent in AI technology. Valerie will share some simple thinking techniques to enhance your thought process. These techniques will equip you to make sense of AI generated data, distilling fact from fiction and in turn make ethical decisions.
All decision making takes place in the midst of uncertainty and risk. So what are the processes and procedures that help managers make sound decisions? In this SkillStack, you will learn the 5 Questions to ask when making decisions, to assess the kind of decision that must be made, who needs to contribute to it, and how to judge whether the hypothesis behind your choice is sound.
Identifying the inherent or systematic biases held within this information requires new levels of critical thinking, bias detection and handling. This SkillStack will teach you how to harness the power of your diversity to help detect and handle systematic biases within technology and information if yields.
In this SkillStack you’ll learn storytelling tactics that will help you lead in a way that allows your followers to “see what you mean ” . You’ll discover which stories to tell when you’re trying to influence change and what kind of stories leaders use to set out a vision and build trust. These tactics are effective ways of simplifying complex models such as strategy in a way that’s memorable.
Leading AI Transformation 101 with People, Transformation & AI Leader, Stephanie Prenderville
What to Expect:
Stephanie is an international speaker, global people development leader and transformation consultant with deep specialism in AI. Stephanie has led people and transformation programmes that have enhanced organisational capabilities across sectors including pharmaceuticals, financial services, and technology.
In this SkillStack, she will share what she has learned though her global talent development and digital transformation experience to help you prepare for AI transformation, balancing technological advancements with human-centric strategies.
Learning Objectives:
In this session you will hear Stephanie share her stories and best practices learned from 20+ years as a senior HR leader enabling business growth and people development. Stephanie’s aim is to guide you as you explore the opportunities and impacts of AI on the people, culture, and workflows in your organisation. She will share the key factors to help you get started with AI and how to implement value-add tech + human integration that’s relevant to your team.
Key Takeaways:
This SkillStack you will learn the six factors to consider when getting started with AI.
1. Culture eats AI for breakfast
2. User Guidelines (safety and governance)
3. Augment vs Replace
4. Pain is Gain when you know what Gen AI is good for (use cases and data management)
5. Go Again: Trial, Learn, Refine, Repeat
6. Nerds Rule! Data management is the keystone
Transformational Leadership with Alphabet‘s Moonshot Factory, Head of Talent, AJ Thomas
What to Expect:
In this SkillStack you’ll hear AJ Thomas share stories from her time transforming and growing leadership teams in Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory (Google’s Innovation Lab).
Transformational leadership is a dynamic and influential style of leadership that motivates and inspires employees to exceed their own interests for the sake of the organization or a greater cause. Professional breakthrough is not possible without personal breakthrough.
Learning Objectives:
This lesson will explore how transformational leaders create a vision that inspires their followers, challenge the status quo, encourage creativity, and provide personalized support to foster development and growth.
Through real-life examples, fun frameworks, and case studies, this lesson aims to equip you with the skills to implement transformational leadership practices in with your team, driving positive change and achieving outstanding results.
Key Takeaways:
This lesson will cover the foundational aspects of transformational leadership: Inspiration, Influence, Innovation, Impact, covering:
- You as a leader: How to show up and influence change , through framing desired behaviours.
- Listen for the signals: How to tune into the mood and emotion of your team.
- Create the right environment: How to create an environment of risk taking through appropriate incentives to encourage risk and failure.
Creating Psychological Safety with EQ and Leadership Expert, Barbara Nugent
What to Expect:
In this SkillStack you will hear Barbara Nugent share stories, strategies and lessons on how to create psychological safety. Barbara, EQ expert and Founder, coaches executives around the globe, advocating for enhanced self-awareness & emotional intelligence, where you can tune in to your ability to respond to the situation at hand, rather than react.
Barbara will guide you through the science an art of creating psychological safety, it’s impact on you and others. Understanding your ability to influence great change for the better in your work environment, and indeed your personal world, striving to do better, be better and inspire better.
Learning Objectives:
In this SkillStack you will learn:
- What psychological safety is and why it matters.
- What signs of low psychological safety are.
- What steps you can take to foster psychological safety in your team.
- How you can contribute as a team member.
Key Takeaways:
1. The four pillars of psychological safety.
2. Signs of low psychological safety.
3. How to foster psychological safety
4. The four actions to take to create it.
Critical Thinking
with Professor & Author, Valerie Pierce
What to Expect:
AI can analyse and synthesize information, but it cannot replicate the depth of human cognition – interpret and make judgements. Critical thinking enables you to add your own perspectives, evaluate sources, and navigate the ethical considerations and biases that are inherent in AI technology.
In this SkillStack, Valerie Pierce (Author, Professor and Founder) will share some simple thinking techniques to enhance your thought process. These techniques will equip you to make sense of AI generated data, distilling fact from fiction and in turn make ethical decisions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Success in the workplace is knowing how to drive high performance behaviours with:
- Clear focus
- By asking the right questions
- Changing negative thinking into positive action
2. This SkillStack will help you understand what differentiates:
- Truth from logic
- Fact from fiction
- Emotion from passion
Key Takeaways:
1. How to think with passion, not emotion
2. Lead with good questions to achieve best results
3. Be innovative through the power of negative thinking
Good Decision Making with award-winning Author & TED Speaker, Margaret Heffernan
What to Expect:
In this SkillStack, you will learn from award-winning author, TED Speaker and world renowned entrepreneur, Margaret Heffernan on how to approach decision making. It is the bread-and-butter of management but also its most difficult part. Managers feel pressure to make popular decisions but yielding to that is not always the right thing to do.
The business ethos today often prioritises speed and confidence, but doubt and delay can be very helpful. Every decision is really a hypothesis about the future: if we do X, then we expect Y as a result. That means all decisions address uncertainty with imperfect information.
Each choice is made in a specific context, so what worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. What this means is that all decision making takes place in the midst of uncertainty and risk. So what are the processes and procedures that help managers make sound decisions?
Learning Objectives:
In this SkillStack, you will learn the 5 Questions to ask in how to approach decision making, to assess the kind of decision that must be made, who needs to contribute to it, and how to judge whether the hypothesis behind your choice is sound.
Key Takeaways:
1. Definition: What is a good decision?
2. Agendas & Stakeholders
3. Exploring the options
4. Pre & Post-mortems
5. Cooling off periods
Bias Detection & Handling with award-winning DEI Leader, Dr. Joanna Abeyie, MBE
What to Expect:
In this lesson you’ll hear from Dr. Joanna Abeyie MBE CC, a multi-award-winning Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) leader, pull from her pioneering work as a Civil Service Commissioner, a Common Councillor for the City of London, a Co-Secretariat of the Creative Diversity All Party Parliamentary Group and as former Head of Creative Diversity at the BBC.
As we face into an increasingly complex augmented working world, how we detect and handle bias in technology, information and systems will determine fact from fiction, opportunity from risk. In this SkillStack, Joanna will share a toolkit to helps navigate this.
Learning Objectives:
AI is generating an unprecedented volume of information that’s reshaping work as we know it. Identifying the inherent or systematic biases held within this information requires new levels of critical thinking, bias detection and handling.
This SkillStack will teach you how to harness the power of your diversity to help detect and handle systematic biases within technology and information if yields.
Key Takeaways:
1. Understanding unintentional structural bias in technology and data generated by AI
2. Start with the end user in mind
3. Test tech and data with a diverse internal group of stakeholders
4. How to handle bias once detected
Storytelling to Lead with Author & former BBC TV Journalist, Steve Rawling
What to Expect:
Steve Rawling is a former BBC TV journalist, international author and business storyteller. His Storyteller methods are used by companies all over the world including Meta, Google and Rolls Royce. Steve reckons has helped over 20,000 leaders tell their stories, in his career, so he can probably help you tell yours.
Learning Objective:
In this SkillStack you’ll learn storytelling tactics that will help you lead in a way that allows your followers to “see what you mean ” stick in their memory and move them to take action. You’ll discover which stories to tell when you’re trying to sell and what kind of stories leaders use to set out a vision and build trust. These tactics are effective ways of simplifying complex models such as strategy in a way that’s memorable.
Key Takeaways:
This SkillStack you will learn how to structure stories that lead, through simple methods and tactics:
- Strategy. Good story frameworks explain strategic direction, simply.
- Transform. How to use a story structure to map a realistic view of the journey ahead.
- Trust. How to show your character in action.
