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Generative AI for Leaders and Managers

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Use ChatGPT and Claude to help you set goals, delegate, coach, and give feedback

Course outcomes

  • Discover how generative AI can enhance various leadership functions
  • Develop practical skills in using generative AI to address leadership challenges
  • Create a comprehensive action plan tailored to your context
  • Understand how to integrate AI into strategic leadership planning

Course description

Harness the power of generative AI to expand your leadership toolkit. In this innovative course, leadership coach Dave McKeown shows you how to leverage large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude to help develop solutions and insights to common leadership challenges.

Through practical demos, you'll learn how generative AI can help you set clear, actionable goals using AI-powered insights, navigate complex priorities with AI-assisted decision making, delegate tasks more effectively using AI-driven analysis, create personalized coaching plans tailored to each team member's needs, and more. Join in to build your confidence with AI tools and start integrating them into your daily leadership practices—saving you time, expanding your capabilities, and improving your results.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Learn to utilize GenAI to define clear, actionable SMART goals aligned with personal and organizational objectives
  • Discover strategies for managing conflicting priorities by leveraging GenAI to adjust plans and accommodate new high-priority tasks
  • Develop skills to identify tasks suitable for delegation and create effective delegation plans using GenAI
  • Craft personalized coaching plans for team members taking on new responsibilities, using GenAI to support their development and success
  • Improve your proficiency in preparing for and conducting feedback sessions by using GenAI
  • Learn to set clear expectations and implement follow-up mechanisms with the assistance of GenAI, fostering independence and growth without micromanaging

This live event is for you because...

  • You're a manager, team leader, or aspiring leader who wants to know how GenAI can help elevate your leadership skills, save you time, and improve your results.
  • You work with teams of various sizes and are responsible for setting goals, delegating tasks, coaching team members, and driving projects to successful completion.
  • You want to leverage GenAI tools like ChatGPT or Claude to enhance your leadership effectiveness, improve team performance, and achieve organizational success.

Prerequisites

  • Sign up for a ChatGPT or Claude account (optional, if you’d like to follow along with the hands-on portion of the course)

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Introduction and setting personal context (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Primer on prompting best practices; key risks and limitations to keep in mind

Setting goals for the next month (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: The importance of goal setting and PACT criteria; the role of clear goals in leadership; the SMART framework
  • Hands-on demo: Crafting PACT goals with GenAI
  • Q&A

Handling conflicting priorities (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Managing conflicting priorities; techniques for prioritization and adaptability in leadership
  • Hands-on demo: Adjusting priorities with GenAI
  • Q&A

Delegating tasks effectively (20 minutes)

  • Presentation: The art of delegation
  • Hands-on demo: Delegation planning with GenAI
  • Q&A
  • Break

Coaching a team member (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Coaching for development; the role of coaching in empowering team members
  • Hands-on demo: Developing a coaching plan with GenAI
  • Q&A

Delivering constructive feedback (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Techniques for effective feedback; delivering feedback with the SBI (Situation, Behavior, Impact) model
  • Hands-on demo: Preparing for feedback sessions with GenAI
  • Q&A

Holding team members accountable (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Establishing accountability; the importance of accountability and how to foster it
  • Hands-on demo: Building accountability measures with GenAI
  • Q&A

Creating a comprehensive action plan (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Integrating leadership actions
  • Hands-on demo: Creating a comprehensive action plan with GenAI

Wrap-up and Q&A (5 minutes)

Your Instructor

  • Dave McKeown

    Dave McKeown is the CEO of Outfield Leadership, a leadership consultant, and the author of The Self-Evolved Leader: Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. He has a wealth of experience in connecting individual and team performance to improved business results, with a particular focus on fast-growing, complex organizations. Dave speaks, coaches, and trains on moving from execution to excellence. His goal is to help organizations build a culture of real, authentic, and ultimately results-driven leadership. He’s shared his leadership strategies at the Inc. 500 and GrowCo Conferences, for Bank of America, the British Government, Entrepreneur's Organization, and Bamboo HR, and with countless others. He’s the host of the podcast Lead Like You Give a Damn and writes a regular leadership column for Inc.com.

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Skill covered

Generative AI