Transforming Leadership Skills with AI-Powered Training
Leadership training is becoming increasingly necessary. According to the World Economic Forum, 61% of employers are looking for leadership and social influence skills. But leadership is a soft skill that requires feedback and interaction to learn properly - a textbook or e-learning module can only take you so far.
RISEUP Global, a consulting firm, discusses how AI fundamentally changes leadership training and makes it less exclusive to the executive class. According to a 2023 International Journal of Business Administration survey, AI is improving leadership training in personalization, decision efficiency, emotional intelligence, and collaboration.
AI-powered leadership training allows learners to hold realistic conversations, chart learning paths, and receive real-time feedback and coaching. The CEO of Jotform, Aytekin Tank, recently wrote an article for Fast Company about his exploration of AI leadership training tools and his experience trying out some of them.
Less Stressful Communications Coaching with AI Simulators
AI simulators bring communications training to everyone. Usually expensive and delivered by expert consultants, this training was typically reserved for C-suite executives, owners, and founders due to its price tag. With CodeSignal’s Conversation Simulation, learners can hold conversations with a dynamic AI partner and practice critical skills such as:
- Active listening
- Conflict resolution
- Delivering feedback
An AI simulator makes communications and leadership training available to everyone, from individuals to middle management. It teaches how to run meetings, enhance collaboration skills, and become a “super communicator.”
Tank mentions in his Fast Company article that having these interactions with an AI partner turns the experience into a judgment-free zone, which he prefers. Traditional communications training usually involves playing to an audience, which can increase stress and reduce the effectiveness of this training.
Pandatron is another solution that functions as an AI coach. It’s less communication-centric and more of a work sidekick, but CodeSignal’s basic principles remain. Another tool, Tenor, has much of the same functionality as CodeSignal.
Teaching Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is one of the traits that younger generations most value in their leaders. Humu’s Nudge Engine boosts team cohesion by offering personalized suggestions based on workplace data. It provides “nudges” to suggest specific actions and tasks to move the needle on behavioral change.
While he doesn’t name specific tools, Vladimir Novac writes in a post on his company’s blog that AI can help improve emotional intelligence in leaders by offering sentiment analysis in written communication, analytical insights about leader behavior and performance based on large datasets, and interaction monitoring to help them self-coach.
Using AI tools, leaders can:
- Conduct AI-powered role-playing scenarios
- Use sentiment analysis in crafting emails and other communications to make sure they have the right tone
- Create gamified learning modules
Prodoscore: Self-Monitoring and Coaching
If you want to monitor how new tools and solutions improve collaboration and productivity, look at Prodoscore. Our employee productivity monitoring solution offers critical insights into how your people work, so you can make better-informed decisions that drive success.
The solution seamlessly fits into the AI leadership training tech stack by visualizing the adoption of AI tools and providing self-coaching recommendations directly to employees. From a leadership training angle, you can use Prodoscore to better understand team collaboration and pinpoint communication silos. The solution is noninvasive and supports success at every level within the organization.
The democratization of leadership training, made possible by AI tools, can have a massive impact on your business. Now, everyone can learn the soft skills necessary to become a good leader without the costs usually associated with executive training. While it doesn’t completely replace legacy leadership training for executives, it does offer significant improvements and ongoing tools that can be used to boost performance.
