We’ve been talking a lot about how targeted AI implementations can solve problems for mid-sized businesses – more specifically, freeing up time for staff to focus on higher-value tasks. We haven’t yet discussed how CEOs might use AI to make their own jobs easier.
The reality is that helping leaders be more effective can be a transformation in itself. Reducing admin burden, improving decision-making, and creating more time to think can have an outsized impact.
A few suggestions for how a business leader might start:
- Finding and summarising information
Leaders are often thinly spread in scores of different conversations and initiatives. AI can help us quickly find and distil conversations, emails and reports so we spend less time hunting or trying to remember. - Acting as a strategic sounding board
AI can help leaders challenge assumptions, test ideas, better articulate plans and predict others’ reactions and objections. Whenever I try this, I always find insights into how others might think. - Improving decision-making
By analysing large volumes of data, customer feedback, and operational information, AI can reveal patterns and insights to support better business decisions. AI can make us Excel experts to rapidly go from hunch to facts. - Preparing communications
AI can reduce the time CEOs spend creating and tailoring communications. Good communication takes time and needs the personal touch, but AI can help arrive there faster! - Managing schedules more effectively
AI can scan forthcoming meetings, pull together documents and other content in advance, and help you prioritise and feel less overwhelmed.
Again, none of these ideas will change the world. But they provide time and energy and genuinely increase my bandwidth and effectiveness.
We’ll be discussing leadership and AI in depth in our upcoming AI masterclass: beyond the headlines. It will be online 20 November at 12:30. Register for what promises to be an informative hour on AI in mid-sized businesses like yours.
Or of course contact us for a no-pressure conversation about AI, or anything IT-related in your mid-sized business.