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Prompting proficiency makes more of a difference in saving time with AI than you might think – and fewer people can do it well than you might assume. Here’s where most people go wrong: 👎 They don’t provide any helpful background context 👎 They don’t give clear instructions for what output they want 👎 Their prompts are unstructured and open ended Why does this matter? The people saving 12 hours a week with AI are in the top 8% in terms of prompting skill. Download our free report and dig into the data for yourself - Link is the comments (make sure your filter is on "most recent"!)

Being an AI leader means mastering two distinct skills: Setting strategy with AI, and deploying AI in your team. Here’s how you can learn both in 10 days: First in AI for Strategic Decision-Making, Taylor Malmsheimer will show you how to map AI’s strengths to the core part of making a decision: Identifying solutions, pressure testing them, and getting buy-in. Then in Integrating AI into Team Workflows, Dan Slagen will guide you through the AI-Fueled Workflow Framework to pick high opportunity workflows for AI augmentation, break it down into tasks AI can do, and outline a pilot for your team. Round it out with AI strategy resources built by experts and an office hours session with an AI consultant to get feedback, suggestions, and new ideas. Link to learn more is in the comments (p.s. make sure your comments filter is on most recent!)

When Ashley Gross launched her business, she Googled the top 3 reasons small businesses fail. Then she picked AI tools to make sure hers didn’t: 1. To ensure product-market fit: Crimson Hexagon to run surveys and product market research 2. To offset lack of business know-how: Butterfly.ai to aid her in upskilling 3. To build a solid business plan: Wave HQ and Expensify to manage bookkeeping and projections By using AI, Ashley can run her business for $400 a month (!). Read more in last week’s Strategy Brief (link in comments).

Still thinking about how AI slots into your business? Our two upcoming free events might answer most of your questions. First up to bat is NYU Stern’s Conor Grennan, who is sharing the successful path to rolling AI out to your entire org. Then Hebbia AI’s former CRO David Morse will be talking about which AI business models have viability and which are temporary. Whether you just want to optimize your team or you want to roll out an AI product (or both), don’t miss this chance to ask the experts your burning questions. Link to RSVP in the comments.

See a few areas of inefficiency or friction on your team? Dan Slagen is an expert on supercharging workflows with AI, without your team skipping a beat. Here’s how to use his AI-Fueled Workflow Framework: 1. Make a list of workflows that are high frequency, high effort, or high importance 2. Pick one that can map to AI’s superpowers: Generating ideas & content, or analyzing and giving feedback 3. Map out the workflow end to end and pick tasks AI can do 4. Outline a pilot to implement it and decide on metrics to track Then share the results to get buy-in for more. Dan is teaching Integrating AI into Team Workflows on September 10th, if you want to learn more. Link in the comments to enroll.

With AI as a copilot, you spend less time preparing to make a decision and more time analyzing it, pressure testing it, and getting to a better decision with less friction. Taylor Malmsheimer will show you how in our AI for Strategic Decision Making workshop. Over 2 hours, you’ll learn how AI plugs into every phase of making a decision and apply it to a decision you’re trying to make right now, so you can get back to work with an edge. The next cohort runs on September 5th. We’ll leave the link to enroll in the comments.

AI initiatives seem like Big Tech’s thing, right? Wrong. Small businesses are leading the AI charge. The majority of AI Class members are in companies that range from 1-500 employees. They get the most training, the most approval, and the most access to paid LLMs. The lesson: You don’t need big budgets or to be big players to pull ahead in AI proficiency. We broke down what they do differently in our free report. Link to download in the comments.

Brian Kolodny has designed chatbots for 37 Global 100 companies, including Universal Theme Parks. Here’s how he built an AI agent to streamline their entire park process: - Laid out his logic tree – everything everyone could want to do, eat, ride, and buy across Universal’s 10 lands. - Designed an AI agent that could gather a family’s preferences and length of stay, and create a streamline itinerary of things to do. While you’re in the park, your agent is notifying you of ride wait times, allowing you to order food and souvenirs ahead, and providing you with realtime alternatives if your itinerary changes. And this entire experience is managed within one AI chatbot. He broke down how he did it, and how he designed Toyota’s very first chatbot experience, in last week’s Strategy Brief. We’ll leave the link for you in the comments, if you missed it.

Jody Geiger says the skills you learn in sales are the exact skills you need to master AI. In her workshop next week, she’ll teach you how to use them to close more deals. She’ll cover the parts of your pipeline AI slots into, how to leverage its different strengths, and walk you through a series of activities so that you leave with use cases you can apply right away. It’s all happening on August 20th, so claim a seat before they run out. Link in comments to enroll.