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The AI Success Framework emphasizes building effective human-AI collaboration by cultivating three key elements: self-awareness about one's own AI adopter persona, a clear understanding of AI capabilities ("AI awareness"), and the collaboration skills required to engage in conversational prompting. Its value lies in encouraging users to adopt a flexible and curious mindset, empowering them to interact dynamically with AI as a collaborator—leading to enhanced productivity, innovative thinking, and more effective outcomes.

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AI Adoption Personas​

​AI Adoption Personas offer a practical starting point for navigating AI by highlighting your natural inclinations, strengths, and possible blind spots. By recognizing your persona—whether you're an enthusiast eager to experiment, a skeptic cautious about risks, or somewhere in between—you can better leverage your unique strengths, anticipate challenges, and become more comfortable exploring AI. Ultimately, understanding your persona empowers you to engage confidently with AI, accelerating adoption and amplifying its positive impact on your work.

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​​Personas from the exercise posted to LinkedIn

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Each person selected one of two of the six personas

1. Enthusiasts eagerly champion new technologies.

2. Skeptics demand evidence before engaging.

3. Pragmatists adopt AI based on clear, measurable business value.

4. Observers prefer learning from others’ experiences before acting.

5. Advocates ensure AI aligns with ethical standards and responsible practices.

6. Traditionalists value established methods and may resist changing to incorporate AI.

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AI is Not Search.  

AI is fundamentally different from search—it's conversational, interactive, and adaptable, inviting users to explore rather than just retrieve. The confusion often arises because the entry points—simple text boxes—look nearly identical, but adopting a mindset geared toward dialogue and curiosity unlocks AI’s real potential.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prompting / Conversation Skills

If you're in the early stages of using the AI models, it helps to have a frame to ensure you cover the basics.  You do not need to be formal about how you enter a search.  Experiment with these

• Give it a clear ROLE to play

• Provide Plenty of Clear CONTEXT & BACKGROUND

• Specify the OUTPUT & FORMAT you want

• Specify the STYLE & TONE of the output

• Identify the AUDIENCE

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ChtGPT Example of the C- prompt and a revised prompt.  HERE

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 Check out the full prompting guide HERE: 

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• Claude (Anthropic)

• Gemini (Google)

• Copilot (Microsoft)

• Perplexity - Perplexity is an AI-powered search and conversational engine that delivers accurate, concise, and transparent answers by synthesizing real-time information from multiple sources.

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AI Hands-On Exercise

We shared an exercise in which all 120 people got onto ChatGPT on their phones to run through two distinct scenarios designed to illustrate how AI can be used in the HR world.  The first scenario was based on building an employee engagement program and the second focused on leading a confidential search for a new C-Level leader.

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Here is the document that we uses as the guide for the two scenarios.  HERE.  

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The HR Leader's Role​

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As a senior leader, the most impactful step you can take is modeling active, positive, and responsible AI use—demonstrating to your team that integrating AI is encouraged and expected. When reviewing projects, consider asking, supportively, how AI helped shape the outcome; this establishes clear expectations, normalizes AI as a productivity tool, and positions you as a resource to guide and accelerate your team's learning.

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Identifying and cultivating internal AI champions is essential—they serve as enthusiastic advocates who inspire curiosity and experimentation throughout your organization. Often, the best champions aren’t highly technical but are approachable, relatable team members who can model openness, help colleagues feel comfortable engaging with AI, and serve as valuable partners to senior leaders in fostering an AI-positive culture.

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Prioritizing AI training across your team is essential—not to build deep technical expertise, but to cultivate the AI Mindset --  curiosity, experimentation, and habits for responsible use. We've found these trainings work best in small-group settings, enabling participants to comfortably share experiences, learn from one another, and collectively build confidence in exploring AI’s practical benefits.

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Companies and Services in the HR and Talent space
 

• Findem - Findem.ai leverages AI-driven talent intelligence to identify, engage, and hire top candidates faster by analyzing diverse, real-time data sources.

• Wisq - Wisq is an AI guide that develops effective leaders through smart, real-time personalized coaching, creating more engaged and successful teams at every organization.

• Yoodli - Improve your communication skills and interview skills  with private, real-time, and judgment-free coaching — powered by AI. Like Grammarly, but for speech!

• HeyGen - HeyGen is an online video tool with built-in talking AI-avatars that unleash people's creativity by removing the costly barriers of traditional video filming and editing.

• HireVue - Human Potential Intelligence. Past achievements don’t predict future success. But AI-driven tech to measure and unlock the potential of candidates does. Hope is not a hiring strategy. HireVue is.

• Read.ai - Read AI makes your meetings, emails, and messages more efficient with AI-generated summaries, transcripts, playback, and highlights.

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