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AI adoption isn’t about learning more technology—it’s about unlocking people’s potential in partnership with it.
When leaders create the right conditions, they speed adoption, boost engagement, and deliver higher value faster—driving impact and outcomes across the organization.
Because AI sparks both excitement and fear, people are more likely to adopt new tools when they feel motivated and confident in the results they can achieve. Great leadership is the catalyst for this shift.
Leading AI Adoption equips leaders with the skills to build AI momentum on their teams, rooted in empathy and action. Leaders clarify the game plan, spot high-value AI opportunities, and celebrate wins with their teams in everyday work. The result is a team that partners with AI and each other to think, decide, create, and communicate more effectively, delivering the outcomes that matter.
Leaders will discover how to:
- See where their teams are in the adoption journey and identify the right next step.
- Model empathy and action to accelerate AI adoption.
- Build trust by clearly communicating the game plan—what the team is doing, why it matters, and what it means for each person.
- Spot opportunities where AI and human strengths can deliver better results.
- Use creativity to help build team and AI skills and capabilities.
- Showcase wins to highlight team progress and enable others to replicate.
Yet 80% of individual contributors describe their manager’s AI leadership as “hands-off,” while over 40% say their managers don’t know how or if they’re using AI in their roles.*
The hype surrounding AI can cause anxiety, fear, and confusion. Some teams may avoid AI due to overwhelm, while others race ahead to use AI tools with little guidance—resulting in uneven utilization, missed opportunities, and even liability risks. When leaders remove roadblocks, model effective AI use, and provide a clear path to discovery and practice for their teams, they turn hesitation into synergetic action and widespread adoption.
*FranklinCovey’s AI General Attitudes Survey (September 2025)
- Not modeling AI confidence, so teams don’t follow
- Lack of visibility into who’s using what and how
- Inconsistent adoption across teams
- Struggle to connect AI + human capabilities to real work
- Accelerate translation to business value
- Standardize adoption across teams
- Engage people to find and scale what works
- Increase customer value through better outcomes
- Leading AI Adoption is an interactive 90-minute module, available Live In-Person or Live-Online with reinforcement tools.
- Leaders engage in polls, small-group discussions, and practical exercises with tools to increase AI adoption with their teams.
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