This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication:
- How To Leverage AI For Your Communications
- FREE Webinar on AI & Communications
- Mastering the Science of Conversations
- The DNA of Engagement
How To Leverage AI For Your Communications
AI is not just a productivity tool.
It can also transform your leadership communications.
True, AI can save you a full day every week.
That’s exactly what my team and I have achieved by integrating AI into our communication workflow.
And you can do it too.
By using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude as your sidekicks, you can communicate faster, better, and more effectively – as long as you have the communication skills to judge what AI suggests.
But thinking deeply about the impact of AI on leadership for my upcoming TEDx Talk, I noticed the wider implications for leaders everywhere.
I will share more on that in my free webinar next week (see below).
For now, here are my favorite use cases you can start doing today:
#1 Presentations
Craft a text, including your role, the task, client details, desired tone, and writing style, asking it for an outline.
Include the right method or structure, like the presentation structures you received when you signed up. (That's the secret sauce – because AI usually picks the wrong one.)
Engage in a dialogue with the AI, refining the outline and applying critical thinking to ensure it meets your needs.
When you're happy with your outline, build your presentation either yourself or with AI.
Gemini or ChatGPT can build it for you (here’s a guide), or you can use tools like Gamma and SlidesAI to generate and edit slides quickly with AI.
#2 Personalized Content
Within ChatGPT, you can build a custom GPT (if you use Gemini, it is called a Gem), where you train it to help you based on your specific content.
Give it your best-performing content (like this newsletter!) and share examples of your writing style.
Craft detailed prompts with all the relevant context (role, goal, task, client details, tone, writing style) and guide the AI on using the resources you've provided.
This can be used for newsletters, podcast texts, social media, etc.
#3 Storytelling
From brainstorming ideas to crafting compelling narratives, generative AI chatbots can help you.
Similar to presentations, I recommend sharing a specific story structure in combination with a detailed ask to get started and, from then on, engage in a dialogue with the chatbot to refine.
#4 Strategic Brand Building
While AI can help refine your mission, vision, and messaging, I recommend having your leadership team develop these core elements.
However, once you've shared these with the chatbot and created a custom GPT or Gem, you have an AI assistant who can generate on-brand content for press releases, social media, your website, and more.
This ensures consistency and speed.
Want to learn more? Join my upcoming webinar ↓
FREE Webinar on AI & Communications
How to use AI to become a top 1% communicator
Join me join me on January 29th to find out how to use AI to create...
- Killer presentations in minutes
- Content that stops the scroll and
- Stories that build real connection with your audience.
📆 Jan 29th, 5pm CEST
It is free but places are limited to 100.
PODCAST
Mastering the Science of Conversations
I do a podcast to help you become a Top 1% communicator.
You build your life and career one conversation at a time. But how can we be authentic and impactful while connecting with others?
To find out, I sit down with Dr. Alison Wood Brooks, celebrated behavioral scientist, Harvard professor, and author of Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves.
Her transformative framework, TALK, is designed to make every conversation more impactful:
T – Prepare Topics in advance to ease anxiety and create engaging discussions.
A – Ask open-ended questions and follow-ups to foster deeper connections.
L – Add Levity through humor and warmth to keep interactions lively and engaging.
K – Approach every conversation with Kindness, offering grace to yourself and others.
Alison also shares insights on managing emotions, bridging cultural and personal differences, and navigating the complexities of digital communication.
Plus: she shares how her research ended up in a Pixar movie.
Listen on Spotify and Apple:
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
The DNA of Engagement
Building trust and influencing change has never been more important. Trust is low across the board, and businesses have to do more to build trust with their employees and society at large.
Enter “The DNA of Engagement”. In this short, actionable guide, David Pullan and Sarah Jane McKechnie show us a story-based approach to solving this dilemma.
Three take-aways:
- Building trust needs a combination of emotional intelligence and strategic planning.
- Our logical ideas will only be accepted if they get past two gatekeepers in our listener's brain: the instinctive and the emotional brains.
- Use three narrative steps for storytelling: Dream, Nightmare, Action. It's the equivalent of Acts I, II, and III, or Set-up, Conflict, Resolution – but has more metaphorical power.
Have an inspired week,
Oliver
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