Situational AI Based Leadership Actions

I’m a big believer in the usefulness of the multitude of AI engines when used appropriately. There are some personal experiences that give me an edge with that thinking. I have a degree in computer science, was a application and OS coder way early in my career, lead and consulted in complex global technology artitecture roles. The sum of those diverse career and leadership experiences left me with a mindset of adaptabilty and “never finished” in my thinking and unique ability to appreciate the abstactness of how technology can come across to the many.

Having said all that, I am continuig to encourage individuals to explore their use of AI engineness for personal use, development, productivity and growth. I’m not encouraging anyone to replace their critical thinking and cognitive learning processes with AI. Rather, to encourage use of the tools to augment your knowledge, here with leading, team motivation and organizational change.

To make most effective use of AI, consider what you are asking it. The more specific your request, the more finely tuned the results will be. Asking “tell me how to lead” will only provide you generalized approaches which will lack situationaly specificity. You will be getting a bulletized list that will lack contextual application. Giving the AI tool very specific, detailed instructions, will cause it to parse and summarize from more diverse and useful data (LLM) sources. Ask it to provide reference sources. For more complex situations, you should highly consider how you cross check its sources and validate the suggested actions. The data sources (LLM again) is the sum of both research based information, opinions and biases. Know that and be discerning with how you consider application. Every situation is different and the leadership action order in one situation, will not transfer readily to another.

The tools are not designed to replace forms of deeper individual performance and developmental coaching. The tools lack understanding of human dynamics and emotional IQ which coaches and therapists provide. Rely on the AI tools for the right purposes and not overextending their current capabilities. You want information that is personalized for you, not generalized for milltions of others.

Think of this in the same way you should consider how you apply feedback that others provide you. If they don’t know you or your situations well enough, their feedback will not be as immediately useful as it needs to be.