You Ask, I Answer: Getting Teams Excited About AI?

In today's episode, Aditya asks, how can AI be used to get different teams like recruiting and operations excited about using it? It's like saying, How can I get someone excited about blenders? Nobody cares. People care about results. People care about outcomes.

People care about saving time, saving money, making money. Bigger, better, faster, cheaper. What problem does someone in recruiting have that they desperately wished would go away? You have to ask people. If you go to the Trust Insights website, go to TrustInsights.ai/slash trips, T R I P S.

That's our trips framework for figuring out what tasks need AI. How much time does a task take? How repetitive is the task? How important is the task? How painful is the task?

And how much data, how do you have sufficient data to do the task well that you can give to AI? The pain one, the P in trips, I argue is the most important for getting buy-in on about AI because a lot of the time people are racing ahead using AI to do things that they enjoy doing. Let's say, all right, this cover plays all the writing in our company, and people who do writing are like, I like that part of my job. Go through your company and say, who loves expense reports? And it was like, nobody.

Nobody loves expense reports. Even finance doesn't love expense reports. Finance sees them as a necessary evil. That is the candidate, the first candidate to say, let's have AI do that. Because guess what?

No one's gonna miss it. No one's gonna say, ah, I feel like AI is taking a really important task away from me. I feel like I'm gonna be replaced. No. No one says that's an expense points.

People are like, please, please take this task as quickly as you can away from AI from me and let AI drip because I don't ever want to see another expensive port again. That is how you get people excited about AI, not by looking at the technology, but by looking at the problem you're going to solve for them that's going to make the most painful things go away. What are the painful things that in your organization nobody loves? Think about it in your own life. What are the things in your own life that you don't love doing, right?

That you wish would go away. Obviously, there are plenty of things in the physical world. You know, not a lot of people uh like dusting or vacuuming, but there's even robots or for some of the robot vacuum cleaner that wanders around the house and stuff like that. But what are the what are the knowledge work things that you don't like doing? Oh, I really don't like keeping track of when to file my taxes.

I really don't like filing my taxes. I really don't like doing this or that or the other thing. And if it's fits in one of those five categories, you know, time repetitiveness, importance, pain, and sufficient data, and it scores well product. A task that takes a long time, it's highly repetitive. It is sort of important, very painful, but you do have plenty of examples of how to do it right.

Give that to AI. Excitement for AI begins with excitement for bigger, better, faster, cheaper, and taking people's pain away. My friend Mitch Joel said this about agencies and it applies to AI just as well, which is don't be one more thing on somebody's to-do list. We were talking to him in the early days of the trust of Trust Insights to say, like, yo, how do we structure the agency? How do we structure our consultant program so that people want to do business with us?

And his advice was simple: he said, don't be one more thing on someone's to-do list. Your job is to take things away from people's to-do lists, make their to-do lists shorter, take away the stuff they don't want to do on the to-do list so that they have time to do what they really enjoy doing in their jobs. That is what AI is for. What can AI take off your to-do list that you don't want to get to? How do you make it through that?

That's how you get buy-in. Good question. Thanks for asking. Talk to you on the next one. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button.

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