AI-Era Survival Skills Self-Guided Workshop

MODULE 1 · JOB EXPOSURE

What happens to your job when AI can do more?

Start with your work, not with AI. Identify the parts of your role that create value today and where that value may shift.

Your role

Industry

List three significant activities you spend time on

Separate them with semicolons.

Repetition

How much of your role follows repeated patterns?

Judgement

How much depends on context and judgement?

Human interaction

How much value depends on trust and relationships?

If AI removed 30% of your current workload, what higher-value work should replace it?

MODULE 2 · AI OPPORTUNITY

What should you actually be using AI for?

AI opportunities should come from friction and value, not from collecting random use cases.

Where does your work currently get stuck?

What important work are you not doing because you lack time, people, information or capacity?

AUTOMATE
Remove routine manual work. ACCELERATE
Do existing work faster. AUGMENT
Improve human thinking or quality. EXPAND
Do work you could not previously do. CHALLENGE
Use AI as a critical thinking partner. CREATE
Generate new assets, ideas or experiences.

Your first AI experiment

MODULE 3 · AI CAPABILITY

Are you actually good at using AI?

Using AI often is not the same as using it well. Choose the strongest response in each situation.

1. A CEO asks AI: “Why are customer complaints rising and what should we do?” What should happen first?

Ask AI for the top five likely reasons. Define the decision, evidence available, missing information, constraints and what a useful answer must enable. Ask AI to make the answer more detailed.

2. AI gives you a polished answer with statistics and benchmarks. What next?

Identify which claims matter, ask for sources and assumptions, then independently verify critical claims. Trust it because the answer sounds specific and professional. Ask it to shorten the answer.

3. AI gives you a generic first answer. What is the strongest next move?

Ask it to expose assumptions, argue against itself, identify competing explanations and show what evidence would change the conclusion. Accept it if it is directionally useful. Ask for more bullet points.

MODULE 4 · INFORMATION BOUNDARIES

What should never casually become a prompt?

Information judgement is part of AI skill. Decide what you would do.

A confidential client contract needs summarising.

Upload it because the client sent it to me. Check authorisation and the AI environment first. Possession does not equal permission.

A screenshot contains an error message, plus an employee email, internal URL and access token.

Redact the image before using AI. It sees what I give it, not only what I intend it to notice. Upload it because the error message is the only relevant part.

Before-I-paste rule: Whose information is this? How sensitive is it? Am I authorised to share it? Where is it going? What happens if it is exposed?

Your personal information boundary

MODULE 5 · AI TRUST

Can you trust this AI answer?

Fluency is not evidence. The right level of trust depends on the consequence of being wrong.

AI says: “Companies adopting AI assistants typically improve productivity by 37% within six months, making rapid deployment the obvious choice.” It sounds confident. It cites no source.

What should you do before acting on this?

Act because the claim is plausible. Separate claims from assumptions, verify the statistic, examine context and ask what evidence would challenge the recommendation. Ask AI to sound less confident.

LOW CONSEQUENCE

Brainstorming, rewriting, ideation.

VERIFY

Research, analysis, recommendations.

HIGH SCRUTINY

Financial, legal, people, safety, strategic decisions.

Complete this sentence

MODULE 6 · AI AUTHORITY

What should AI be allowed to do for you?

AI capability and AI authority are not the same thing. Choose the level of authority you are comfortable granting.

Draft a routine email

Send the email automatically

Approve a customer refund

Commit company money

Make a hiring decision

Make a high-consequence strategic decision

Where will you draw the line?

MODULE 7 · CAPACITY REINVESTMENT

AI just gave you 8 hours back. Now what?

Productivity is not value until something valuable happens with the capacity created.

Customers

Thinking / strategy

Learning

Innovation / new projects

Existing workload

Meetings / admin

Your allocation should total 8 hours. The goal is not to refill every minute. It is to deliberately reinvest capacity.

What valuable outcome should those 8 hours create?

MODULE 8 · YOUR AI-ERA SURVIVAL PLAN™

Your plan is ready.

—AI exposure signal

—AI capability score

—information judgement score

1. Your job exposure

2. Your human value direction

3. Your AI opportunity

4. Your AI capability gap

5. Your information boundary

6. Your trust rule

7. Your AI authority boundary

8. Your capacity reinvestment plan

Your next 30 days

WEEK 1 · PROTECT

Identify exposure and set your information boundaries.

WEEK 2 · EXPERIMENT

Run one meaningful AI experiment on real work.

WEEK 3 · IMPROVE

Practise your weakest AI capability deliberately.

WEEK 4 · REDESIGN

Change one part of how you work permanently.

Don't try to become AI-proof. Become increasingly valuable because AI exists.

Where do you want to go next?

Your workshop is complete. The options below are entirely optional.

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THE SELF-GUIDED WORKSHOP

What happens to your job when AI can do more?

What should you actually be using AI for?

Are you actually good at using AI?

What should never casually become a prompt?

Can you trust this AI answer?

What should AI be allowed to do for you?

AI just gave you 8 hours back. Now what?

Your plan is ready.

1. Your job exposure

2. Your human value direction

3. Your AI opportunity

4. Your AI capability gap

5. Your information boundary

6. Your trust rule

7. Your AI authority boundary

8. Your capacity reinvestment plan

Your next 30 days

Where do you want to go next?

The Executive AI Decision System™

The Consultant Reinvention System™

Executive AI Growth Strategy Session™