The Future-Ready Leader’s AI Advantage:

Using AI tools to achieve a more strategic focus, increase personal productivity and become a better leader.

Future-ready Personal Productivity with AI:
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The AI Productivity Advantage
Using Artificial Intelligence tools to save time, drive better results and future-ready your career.

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The Future-Ready Leader’s AI Advantage
Using AI tools to achieve a more strategic focus, increase personal productivity and become a better leader.

The Managing Me suite of core courses:

Planning & Prioritizing for Change
How to manage your priorities, time and energy in the new game of hybrid work and constant change.

Planning & Prioritizing for Change: Leader’s Version
How to get out of the weeds and carve out more time for your strategic priorities. Leading Self in order to better Lead others.

Preventing Burnout
Practical strategies to help busy, time-crunched people prevent burnout.

Other Programs:

Masterful Meetings (Virtual, In-Person & Hybrid)
Making our Meetings Engaging & Productive.

Strategic Thinking
Tools & techniques to help you spark innovation, achieve better results and turn challenge into opportunity.

Managing Expectations & Negotiating Priorities
How to prioritize, and when necessary, diplomatically negotiate some incoming demands on your time.

Mastering the Mental Game of Resilience
Easy to implement best practices to help you stay energized, resilient and focused.

Taming the Email Monster
More Control. Less Stress.

New! On-line, on-demand:
Pay Your Priorities First
How to carve out more time for the strategic priorities that will most help you grow and succeed.

AI, arguably the largest tech change we’ve ever seen, is here to stay. We either embrace AI now to gain advantage, or risk being left behind in a world that won’t wait.

This course will help you cut through the AI overwhelm and get future-ready fast. You’ll walk away with practical tools that you can start using right away to lead more strategically and take your own personal productivity to a whole new level. And collaborating with your peers will enable you to connect, share insights and reinvent what’s possible in your organization, team and career !

This content is best split into a 2-part format (two, 2-hour virtual sessions or two, half-day in-person sessions) or it can be facilitated in a longer, single session format.

The AI practices covered are applicable across popular tools like Ms Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, with content adjusted to leverage your organization’s specific AI ecosystem and policies.

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Part 1: Your Kickstart to an Unprecedented level of Leadership Productivity

Introduction: AI as Your Strategic Leadership Partner

    • Meet AI: Your always-on partner that can help you free up time for the important things—thinking strategically, leading your team, and pushing innovation forward. Let’s get clear on where AI can help you work smarter and where it’s just a shiny time waster.
    • 3 simple but powerful productivity principles to help you get the most out of AI.

Prompt Engineering: The New Meta-skill for Future-ready Leaders. (applicable to all AI tools —Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)

    • The PRIMER 6-Step Framework for Crafting Effective Prompts: Get better output, faster, by mastering prompt design.
    • Hands-On Practice: Creating prompts to use on your own work tasks for immediate learning application.
    • Tips for Power Prompting. Key best practices to help you design great prompts that will generate the results you want.

AI Time Savings: Doing some things faster = more time for Strategic Work.

    • Create compelling, higher quality content (emails, reports, presentations, proposals, etc.) in record time. Overcome “blank page” paralysis and use AI to get started, edit and complete work far more quickly.
    • Your AI Idea factory. Generate creative options, ideas, and suggestions faster.
      From information overload to clarity: Master the art of AI-powered research and information organization & summarization.

Strategic Focus with AI: Elevating your work to the next level.

    • AI-First Leadership Thinking: We’ll share some amazing examples of AI applied to strategic work, opening eyes, and sparking ideas (Most of us have no idea of what AI is truly capable of in terms of strategic work).
    • Hands-On Practice: Getting a start with prompts designed for strategic work: innovation, planning, developing teams, etc. This sets the stage for more advanced applications in Part 2.

Action Plan: Your 30-Day Strategic AI Sprint

    • Develop a personalized 30-day action plan to incorporate AI into your leadership role, using 10 minutes a day to gain a career-boosting productivity edge.
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Part 2: To the next level with AI Leadership Productivity

Keeping the focus on using AI Productively.

    • You’ll learn 3 more advanced level personal productivity practices to help you stay focused on high-impact leadership tasks and make certain that the time savings gained through AI are put to good use. This is about making sure that you’re using AI to help you achieve greater results, not distract you.

AI as Your Strategic Thinking Partner.

    • AI is far more than just a time saver – it’s an incredible tool to amplify your strategic thinking and innovation too. Understanding how AI can be used to gain fresh insights, challenge assumptions, and innovate.
    • Advanced Prompting: We’ll dive into more sophisticated ways to ask AI questions that push your thinking and bring more value to the table.

AI as Your Executive Coach.

    • Using AI to reflect, gain perspective, and identify specific next steps to grow as a leader.
    • Coaching & developing your team: Leverage AI to improve conversations, and better develop and delegate to your team.

More Applications to enhance Your AI Productivity Advantage

    • Better meetings: Automatically summarize and analyze meeting transcripts to capture key takeaways and actions.
    • Custom GPT models: Explore how creating your own tailored GPT models can drive even more precise results and automation for your unique needs.

Your AI Advantage Action Plan: Sustaining your competitive edge.

    • Mapping out clear, actionable next steps for your ongoing AI learning journey.
Doug Heidebrecht

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