HR BESTIES - Using AI at Work

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 So, job titles. You know I've had titles that have been people, legal, but what about global business development? Sounds fancy. It does, right? And so I've always had this creative bent. And one thing that I think is really important is to find things that drive your teams and things that they want to get into and giving them opportunities. So when I was living in Australia, I was head of people and legal for a media company, but
Starting point is 00:00:43 we created magazines all over, largely all over the US, a little bit international, but certainly nothing in Australia. But when I lived there, Australia is like, I swear, it's like going back in time, like 10, 20 years ago, not from a, like, you know, rotary phone or whatever, but from like, when you go to like the shops, like when I was there, Amazon was not a thing in Australia. And so everyone go to like the shops, like when I was there, Amazon was not a thing in Australia. And so everyone goes to shops and you, you're right. And you like see people. And so still magazines, like the touch of them was really big. And we did these like luxury magazines, including some custom publications. And so I told my boss, the CEO, I was like,
Starting point is 00:01:21 I think there can be opportunity here. And he was like, have at it. What do you want to do? And so I was like, I want to start reaching out to some of these. And I had done sales before I went to law school. But I said, I'd love to set up some of these opportunities. And he's like, love it. Go for it.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Tell me what you need. And so I added, because I was like, well, that would be very strange if you were, for example, I reached out to a brand new six-star hotel they were building there, make different companies to create these publications. And I'm like, it would be very strange to have someone reach out that's legal. So I was like, I got to have a good title. So I was like, what about global business development? And so I ended up, I still did my job, which I do think is important. I still did the core
Starting point is 00:02:01 aspects of my job, people and legal. But I created these emails. I worked with our custom sales team to vet things out, get the media kit. All of a sudden, I have meetings with these heads of marketing, a large hotel chain and things like that. And it was like, I just so invigorated. I got such a kick out of it. And I feel like I brought a new energy to the other things
Starting point is 00:02:24 that I did, and I handed everything over. It's a lesson that I think if you have employees and you're like, what's something you've always wanted to try that you haven't? Sometimes the answer will not be, yes, what can I do? I get that, and I'm sure I had other ideas that weren't. But I always appreciated that having a leader that was like, tell me what you want, what do you need? Let's talk about always appreciated that having a leader that was like, tell me what you want. What do you need? Let's talk about ways to make it work. And I really got a kick out of that. So my, you know, my tenure, it's you will not see that if you're going to my LinkedIn to see that because it sounds a bit, you know, I don't need that many words in your LinkedIn bio, but, but yeah,
Starting point is 00:03:01 fictitious global business development title. I love that. Give people opportunities. Yeah. Titles can open doors. Right? I don't know if you all have been in this situation where internally people had to be aligned and like they had to have the same titles, right? But, you know, they changed their titles externally because the market demanded that. That's the
Starting point is 00:03:27 only way they can get the foot in, right? They had to have, you know, the big long title, you know, so they could go to those big hotel chains and weasel themselves in there to make a deal, you know? Like, it's true. When I had first moved to Australia, I'd rejoined. This is a prior company I'd worked for. My title, my first go around when I was part of a much larger public company was corporate counsel. It's about the most junior that you're going to get in a legal function, corporate counsel. There are junior corporate counsel, but I was that.
Starting point is 00:03:58 When I rejoined, so my title was senior corporate counsel when I rejoined, but I would be on calls with people and they'd say, oh, well, we're having our senior most, so make sure you're senior most. They'd say, well, that's also me. And so that's how I got my general counsel title when I had said to the CEO, I'm like, people are asking. And he's like, so just, yeah, that's fine. Make it general counsel.
Starting point is 00:04:15 And I remember in my mind thinking, I'm so proud of myself, like in my 30s, I'm getting this title. This is amazing. And I just changed it in my system. And I think probably went and bought myself a Vegemite scroll. But yes, titles do matter. It is hilarious, the titles that you will see sometimes, especially if you look at people you used to work with. And now a couple of jobs pass and you see how they describe their job and the title
Starting point is 00:04:42 they have. You're like, maybe not so much. Yeah. No, that wasn't it. Chief everything officer. Well, you were an account coordinator, but cool. Whatever works. Hey, whatever, right? Yeah. I mean, look at me, chief meme officer. True. C-suite, baby. Exactly. You can be anything you want to be. I did. And that with and you would you as would have loved it. Lee, with the accents you would have like I would meet with these like Australian executives, you know, there they have like their their their suits are all real tightly, tightly tailored, like, you know, the short pants,
Starting point is 00:05:16 like they're going on The Bachelor, like that, you know, the all that. So so Lee, if you ever want to book, just change your title, get schedule some meetings and we'll all go on a business trip together. So, there we go. That sounds like something I'd do. Hold on, I'm brainstorming. I feel like there might be a trip. I know.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Global business development person. Ashley, work your magic. I know. We're all senior executive global business development extraordinaire or aficionados, something I don't know, something long. The CFO and I even, she and I took over some accounts
Starting point is 00:05:52 even when I came back and we worked together. The CEO, we were like, I'm looking in the CRM, these accounts, these are great accounts. We use these products, we should market to them. And he was like, have at it. And so we like, it was, you know, giving people some creativity. Don't stay in your lane. Drive all over the highway like a,
Starting point is 00:06:09 like a mad woman. Exactly. Exactly. You got to develop, you know? Come on. Gosh. Oh, the power of titles though. That's some hot goss there in the water cooler. Just make up your own jobs, people. That's the messenger. You know what I mean? Call yourself whatever. No one gives a shit. All right? How can you be sure your child is making the right decision when choosing a university? The smart approach is to look at the facts, like the fact that York U graduates have a 90% employer satisfaction rate.
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Starting point is 00:07:30 brought to us today by Jamie. Thank you in advance for covering that. And then we are going to shift into our hot topic of the meeting today and it is all things using AI at work. What can AI do for you? Well, we're gonna explore that a little bit, maybe share what we use it for and definitely encourage you all to reach out on the socials and we'll share your best tips as well in our stories. And then as always, we'll save some time for some cues and sees, questions and comments before closing out the meeting.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Jamie, what do you have for us from a cringe speak perspective? Yeah. So today I have Aligned and I know all three of us are guilty of using this in our own little text chat groups. But I've seen it a lot more recently and maybe it's cause we are using it, but I even see it in business emails now. I got one just last week. It said, we're aligned. I'm like, oh my God.
Starting point is 00:08:32 It's now the new overused phrase when we're like, yep, got it. Good to go. Gotcha. I said it earlier in this meeting already. In my defense, though, I've been saying a line for a decade, probably. That has definitely been a word, right? Aligned.
Starting point is 00:08:51 We're aligned, right? Yeah. I remember when I had joined a company, literally almost exactly 10 years ago to the day. And I had never heard this in corporate. We used to use, even where I'd come from a public company, but it was no corporate speak whatsoever, no meetings, like kind of do your thing. I know, it was nice, but I switched to a culture. I had like 40, literally like 45 meetings a week,
Starting point is 00:09:16 but like a day one or two, my senior to me colleague sat aligned and it was like, I felt like all of a sudden it was transformed into like a power suit. Like I thought, that's a very powerful word. So I adopted it really quickly to really upskill myself and sound completely unnatural and like, you know, like I had shoulder pads on. So yeah, but I agree. We're not just in agreement.
Starting point is 00:09:39 We are aligned. Like we are lock arm, lock step, right? Like, who aligned, aligned, lock, step, right? Yeah. Like, woo, aligned, aligned, aligned. Totally. But that is, it is funny. I mean, it's cringe because it is, it basically means agreement, but it does sound,
Starting point is 00:09:56 I do think it adds a certain cache to it. Yeah, it's just a little more proper. It's kind of got like that superhero vibe. I don't know, something about it, right? Is it sexier? Cause it's got a silent vibe. I don't know, something about it, right? Is it sexier? Because it's got a silent G? I don't know. KATE LASERYSKA Like my name, like my name.
Starting point is 00:10:11 I just made that connection. I didn't say it on purpose. KATE LASERYSKA Literally, literally. No, I did too, literally. I was literally about to say that. We did. I was like, well, you have a silent G, so that's, you know, you're certainly the sexiest voice I've ever heard.
Starting point is 00:10:28 So there we go. But while it's cringe, it is a savior corporate word, because it's absolutely one of those you can say if you have not been paying the most attention in a meeting. You can say, well, I'm really trying to get to alignment here. Someone will chime in. That's all you got to say. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:10:47 There you go. God, I love the word alignment too. That's hot. Yeah. Oh, God. Shall we shift over to the hot topic of all things AI? And you all are really in for a treat today because we do have an AI expert here with us, and that is Ashley. We have a SME, a subject matter expert in Ashley,
Starting point is 00:11:09 who has courses on this. She's legit and totally encourage you all to look those up, LinkedIn Learning, shout out. And just her content, her newsletter, sign up for that as well. But we're going to talk a little bit about all things AI at work, right? And what it can do for you, actually kick us off like what the hell even is AI? What does it mean?
Starting point is 00:11:31 Well, I'll I'll talk about it. But like a leader, I'll talk about myself first is that when you said expert, I thought to myself when you were little in school, did you read like it wasn't highlights, but it was like Roger Reader or those like little paper magazine things. Library highlights. Okay, so maybe it was similar to highlights. I think it was the highlights they delivered to classrooms
Starting point is 00:11:50 in the 1980s. And the stories, they'd never named a name, but it would always say, experts say. And I remember being in third grade and thinking to myself, wow, what would it be like to have someone call me an expert one day? And so, you know, I feel like in addition to getting my global business development title, this is really
Starting point is 00:12:08 a peak of my professional career that I'm called a. Been promoted. Yeah, been promoted to an expert. And so that feels good. An expert, what it really means is you've just done it and tell people about it. So you can be an expert in a lot of things. But with AI, I think what AI can do that's really helpful,
Starting point is 00:12:27 no matter what your role, but in HR, at work, is it can be like your personal coach in your pocket or on demand. And it also can be really, really objective. Because when you're going through things at work, you may think, OK, I want someone's opinion on this. Well, you reach out to somebody, and they may even be your work bestie, but they're busy. And so they kind of have that interior like, okay, give me, give me five minutes. They can't be available
Starting point is 00:12:52 or they bring their own thoughts. They don't, they don't, they think something's awful or you should totally rephrase it, but they don't want to hurt your feelings. So they're not giving you full feedback. Chachi BT does not give a shit about you. And that's a wonderful, a wonderful thing because that makes it really valuable for you. And that's a wonderful, a wonderful thing because that makes it really valuable for you. And I mean, it doesn't bring preconceived things, but so I say ChatGPT, AI, artificial intelligence, there's generative AI, which are things like ChatGPT
Starting point is 00:13:18 and tools that they build on each other. So you can have prompts, you ask it questions, and then whatever it says, you can continue it like it's a conversation. There's other non-generative AI, which is just kind of like, you ask it one question. But there's a lot. So there's now, like there's Copilot, Microsoft. There's one that I don't love, which is on Instagram.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Now, if you go to search for someone and you're trying to search for something, sometimes you'll look, and there's also that's the same search bar for AI. So I know, I know Matt is trying there. And so I think they're still kind of figuring that out. But a lot of these are like computer learning and they're doing what, what I've assumed for a long time when you do things on a computer, like it's taking your information, making it valuable. And so, chat GBT or AI tools overall can make things really, really efficient.
Starting point is 00:14:10 And so, if you are listening and you've never really gone to explore AI things and you're feeling kind of anxious about it, you are in the majority of people I've spoken with. This is why I have LinkedIn learning courses on it, because I've done regular management training sessions and I'd said, hey, who's ever used ChatGPT? And no one's hands were raised.
Starting point is 00:14:31 And so go to ChatGPT.com and start asking questions. One thing is, any time if you're doing it for work is to be mindful of your organization's policies. Although organizations are kind of playing catch up, so a lot still don't have policies. But again, always make sure you're following those. But my rules of thumb are AI and chat GPT are not diaries and they're not encyclopedias. So don't put in things like your company's name, employee, personal information, anything
Starting point is 00:14:56 like that. But use it for more general tips. It's also not an encyclopedia, it's getting better. But so it's not facts. But the things it can be great for are if you're going to write a message and you think, OK, I want to rephrase it, copy and paste it and write rephrase to sound more professional or things like that.
Starting point is 00:15:16 And all of a sudden, it's generating things. And there it is. It's like you're literally, it's like your editor coach in a second. But ladies, how do you use AI? I remember the conversation on AI really started hitting like a couple of years ago. I mean, it's always been a buzz, right?
Starting point is 00:15:33 It's coming, it's coming, it's been here, whatever. But it just really came to the forefront. And I was on a business trip last summer in France. And my team that I was with, we were at lunch and we started talking about chat GPT and several people on the team had never heard of it at all. And so someone had pulled it up and they said, hey, give me an email to a customer
Starting point is 00:16:04 from a sales point of view. And it pulled up a real email, right? That could be sent like from the business I was with. And someone at the table obviously was French, right? We're in France. And he's like, see, this doesn't sound like me though. And so the coworker goes, hey, chat GPT, make me French though, make it sound French. We were dying laughing because it put Z.
Starting point is 00:16:31 We, we. Z. Yeah, no, it was literally doing that. It was like Z-client, the, the, the, the, the, the, like it literally made it sound French and like short and kind of curt and stuff like that. And the guy's like, holy shit. He's like, this sounds like me. And it did. I mean, it sounded like what he would say. It was so clever. That's so funny. And so that's what has fascinated me is that as I use generative AI more and more, it sounds more and more like me. And I mean, that's kind of mind blowing, right? It kind of can,
Starting point is 00:17:03 it's starting to understand like my humor or it's putting in some sarcasm. And I barely touch the surface. I mean, I'm just dipping toes in still. I'm still Googling all like old school geriatric millennial, you know, but the more and more I use it, I'm just fascinated about how it really does to your point, become like this buddy for you, this assistant, this coach. Like it really does to your point become like this buddy for you this assistant this coach
Starting point is 00:17:25 Like it really starts understanding you and can almost read your mind in a way, right? Well, hold on before Jamie you say something substantive When you said France, I thought you were gonna say, you know chat GPT in France people found it hilarious because Chat GPT is in French That when you say in the French language, it basically means cat I farted. It's like, no way. Yes. That's what you were saying. Yes. That's why they were laughing at it. That's the way it translates. And I think there's some slang that's a bit less appropriate even. So when you said that, I thought you were going to
Starting point is 00:18:03 talk about it. And so that's what makes me laugh. So the pronunciation literally of chat GPT, I guess they still call it that in France. Are you serious? Cat eye farted? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's...
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Starting point is 00:19:45 See Shopify.com slash POS 20 for details. All right. Give us your substantive advice or example. Well, what I was going to say was I, same thing. I heard it really at ChatGVT, so like last year, was I same thing. I heard it really chat GBT. So like last year, but I love it. And I use it a lot for when I'm trying to sound professional, but it's three in the afternoon and I can't get the words out. I mean, not just for that reason, but it really helps me with verbiage. And sometimes I know what I want to say. and so I can easily type it, but I really just want to
Starting point is 00:20:27 dress it up a little bit. And so it kind of remakes. Wee-kee-wee-kee! I just did the hand motion like I'm scratching an album. It kind of remixes it for me. And I love it. And at work, they apparently, IT can tell how many times you use it. And so I told one of my friends at work, apparently IT can tell how many times you use it. So I told one of my friends at IT, I was like, girl, feel free to tell on me. I use that shit all the time. I was like, it dresses up my emails and my verbiage for me. It's not doing my work. It's not, but it just helps me, especially on days. sometimes, you know, I had a really bad open enrollment and just I was mentally and emotionally and physically drained because there was a giant issue that happened and responding to emails, I really want to be
Starting point is 00:21:17 like, someone fucked up. It wasn't me. Exactly. We're going to get a fix. But instead, you needed a communication, right? Yes. Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:21:28 I wanted to make sure that it sounded professional and not Jamie is crying in the corner in the field position. Yeah. A few ways to think of it is, like I said, personal coach, and I'll talk about those, but also people feel like, is AI going to come for our jobs? And there are some areas of like there's certain graphic design. I played this a while ago where I was like,
Starting point is 00:21:49 can you come up with an image of Jamie Lee and me from HR Besties? I am telling you, Chagy BD is not here yet to take our job. I mean, it did not look like us. It had random text misspellings on the screen. And again, more and more, it's figuring it out. But even when you give it feedback, no, you have random letters on the screen.
Starting point is 00:22:11 OK, it regenerates it. Still random letters. It's still random letters on the screen. It's figuring things out. But there are some aspects that it definitely will. But it's the people that learn how to master it and leverage it into your work. But things like Excel, we hear from people that are like, I don't know how to use Excel.
Starting point is 00:22:28 You can write in ChatGPT, how do I make a formula? If I have last name, comma, first name, how do I have a formula to do that? Or in Copilot, you can do that with Microsoft and add that, and it can help you like, oh, this is how you do it. And so what I like is you can speak to it like a real person and it can create the formulas and things that you need if you don't know how to use those technical tools. So it's kind of cool to do it that way. I did recently, oh, I was coming up with a list of my, to try to figure out percentages
Starting point is 00:23:01 of like my manager 101 course. Like what percentages is each module at? If I move them around and I just copy and paste at the name of the modules and the time, and it's 7% this, and if you want to divide it evenly, this, here's some options to restructure these topics. It can be good at doing that data, but in a much better way than you could do it in Google.
Starting point is 00:23:20 But things like using it as a coach, if you're coming to AI and you really haven't used it before, like, think of it for personal use. Like, Jamie, if you're feeling down in the dumps, you can go to ChatGPT and say, I'm having a bad day. Can you just say a kind word about me? And I mean, if you just need that. And it will be like, sure. Like, it comes and it has this voice.
Starting point is 00:23:44 And it's not a substitute, certainly not a substitute for real human interaction. But when you just need something in a pinch and you're like, I don't want to ask anybody else. Yeah, if you just need a quickie, if you need that quick. But also, if using it for things like work, again, rephrase this, how do I say it? Or topic, I'm thinking about next steps in my career path. What would it look like if my title is this? What would that look like? What are questions I should ask in my, in my interview? It can, it can just help make your life easier. But even flipping outside of work, like, you know, you're listening to this and you're like, someone's like, what's for dinner tonight?
Starting point is 00:24:17 You're like, fuck my life. I don't know. You can say like, what would something be good for dinner tonight? If these are things I have in my refrigerator or talk now, a lot of times people are in the sandwich generation where you have kids, you're caring for your kids, you're caring for your aging parents, and it's a phase of life most people aren't prepared for. It's hard to prepare for that. But so you can say, can you help me come up with a schedule or questions to ask my parents' healthcare provider about this? Or how can I have a schedule to help my parent
Starting point is 00:24:46 with some of the medications? And so you can put some of that information in that can really help in that way. And so I also, the last thing I'll say on this is like a few weeks ago, we were at urgent care, my son was sick, and I was like so tired because he hadn't slept well the night before. I had not slept well.
Starting point is 00:25:03 And I'm trying to keep him entertained, and I don't want to sit there on the phone. I had not slept well. And I'm trying to keep him entertained. And I don't want to sit there on the phone. I cannot physically think of a story at this point in time. But I was like, hey, buddy. I was like, do you want me to ask Chachi BT to think of a story? And he was laughing.
Starting point is 00:25:13 He's like, can I do that? And I was like, let me tell you. And so I was like, can you think of, hey, Chachi BT, can you write a story for a 10-year-old boy named his son's name? And he's a fan of the Atlanta Braves. And he likes acting and something else. And it's like, sure.
Starting point is 00:25:30 And it comes up. And so I'm like laughing reading the story. And so we're chuckling. And it can't take out all the creativity and all the things that make you human, but in a pinch, it can just make things, absolutely make things easier. So I recommend trying it out, even if you want to dip your toe in the water. I'm Natalie Barbou, host of the RealReal Podcast, where we go behind the highlight
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Starting point is 00:26:17 miss a beat. What I really love about it is that I'm a strategist. I love all things strategy. I'm not really in the, I suck at admin and tactical things, right? And ever since I became an entrepreneur with HR Manifesto, that is so hard for me. Keeping up on the emails or my schedule or just some of the behind the scenes more administrative tasks. And that's what I've been leaning into it on,
Starting point is 00:26:47 so that then I can turn and focus on my writing, focus on my content, focus on my brand relationships, my follower relationships, my comments. It has freed up a lot of time for me to focus on the things I really enjoy doing in my business. For me, that's been so invaluable. Back in the day, like six months ago, when I was working in corporate, I started using it for communications, for consistency sake.
Starting point is 00:27:22 I have all the information and the data. But with the lack of a comms professional or whatever, you can put that there. Put just kind of the main things you need conveyed. And it's like, ah, there we go, right? How wonderful. I can get a succinct message like Jamie's talking about, right?
Starting point is 00:27:40 Or I'm in a brain fog. And ah, here we go. Help with an email real quick, right? Things like that, that they don't need a lot of creativity or trying to create just a message real quick that's succinct and makes sense, my goodness, you know, it's a lifesaver, oh, big time. Yeah, I think we're all aligned here.
Starting point is 00:28:00 Oh, there she goes, there she goes. Always so good. Well, I'll put in the HR Besties stories Oh, there she goes. There she goes. So good. Well, I'll put in the HR Besties stories, and then this show notes the links to LinkedIn Learning. I think I have like two nano courses, which are short under 10 minutes each on different AI topics. And really it talks about chat GPT, because it's really aimed towards people who are getting
Starting point is 00:28:18 into it. And then I have a longer one where I'm dressed as a robot, becoming an AI powered manager, that I think you need to have LinkedIn premium for, but we'll see. But anyway, I'll put those, but it's just try it out. And if there's a question that you're gonna go to like a private Facebook group for to get group input, I promise you, if you ask Chachi PT,
Starting point is 00:28:38 like what's a transition plan for my HR coordinator starting? Like you can probably get a really quick one, literally in seconds, a good template to start from. Oh my God. Love that. Woof, job descriptions. Shall we transition into questions and comments? Questions and or comments? I have a quick comment. My comment is if AI wants to take my job, please have it. Take it. Bye. Yes. Bye. I love that. I love that. I think that's funny.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Like, when is it going to take my job already, please? Yeah, like, hurry up. Like, do we have a date? Do we have a date on that so I can exhaust my vacation? An exit plan. My quick question for all of you all. So not a comment, but just a quick question. Just shout out one creative use for AI or make that make sense.
Starting point is 00:29:34 You know what I'm saying? Something you used AI for that we haven't yet talked about, just a quick one. I'll go first. I've been doing trip itineraries. Ooh. And it's brilliant. Like, hey, like, you know, I went to New York City recently and I said, hey, going to New York City these dates, here's my flight. Here's what I want to do. I need three restaurant options for each meal. Put the Uber time, like put the travel time for each location. I mean,
Starting point is 00:30:09 and it just boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo. I mean, it was brilliant and it was a wonderful starting point. So highly recommend Trip Itineraries. I like that and mine to piggyback to use our corporate speak from many episodes ago is when I'm traveling with my kids and they're like, do I need a packing list? Now I get chat GPT and I'll say, can you do a packing list for like a 10 year old boy for four nights at the beach? Again, it's a start. Sometimes I look at it and I'm a little questioning the pajama to underwear ratio, but generally it's very good.
Starting point is 00:30:46 When my daughter and I had gone to, she came to see me speak at a women's leadership conference, and then we went to Olivia Rodrigo, Chachi Petey encouraged her to look at the arena's policies of whether she'll need a clear purse for the concert. It's like, hey girl, that sounds like an amazing weekend. That's brilliant. So we look at it together.
Starting point is 00:31:05 That is, I said family. I love that. But yeah, it's so it can be helpful to make traveling even easier. Jamie, what do you got? Well, mine is not as fun. Oh, that's okay. Mine is...
Starting point is 00:31:17 It can be boring and shitty. I'm just kidding. Actually, Ashley, you told me about it and it's to help with performance reviews. I have a really hard time bragging about myself. Yes, I keep a kudos file. Yes, I know exactly what I did, but it's very hard to brag on myself. I actually used it recently to complete my performance review where I plugged in my kudos and what I accomplished, and it helped me with the wording.
Starting point is 00:31:48 And that's all to Ashley. I believe you mentioned it in one of your courses. I don't think it's the nano, I think it's the longer one. And I highly suggest it, it was very helpful for me. Like I said, just the verbiage alone, I didn't feel like I was like, I did this, and I did this, even though a robot wrote it. Love that. That's brilliant. That is so clever.
Starting point is 00:32:09 It's all Ashley. Thank you. That's all. Chasubitur. It's all the kitty. That's all the kitty. Love that. It's all kitty farts. Oh, wow. I love that. That is a great idea. Love it. Now I have that yin yang song in my head. If you know, you know. I know. I know. I do not know. I'm out of it. Ashley, question or comment? What do you got? Close us out. My last comment is for managers and leaders, which is as you think about things like innovations, like a chat GPT or AI. Talk about it with your team and share these things, just like we're doing here.
Starting point is 00:32:48 Talk with your team about how they effectively use AI. But do not do it to just think, how can I then get more and more and more out of my team? Because your team can end up getting burnt out if they feel like, and they'll hesitate to give suggestions on how they're more efficient, if they feel like it's just going to make them exhausted on how they're more efficient, if they feel like it's just gonna make them exhausted. And so as you have innovations, just be mindful,
Starting point is 00:33:09 you should be able to then bear some benefit to that as well. And whether that's your team, you know, finishes their day 15 minutes early. So have the conversations, talk about it, but also reassure them that it doesn't mean you're just gonna continuously pile on. Oh, that's a mic drop right there if I ever heard one. I love it. Oh gosh, well besties,
Starting point is 00:33:29 we appreciate you. And we did not put that into the chat GPT to say it. Like that is straight from us right there. No catfarts. No catfarts on that one. But we appreciate you listening. Definitely a little quick CTA call to action. Go and follow us on our social channels, if you have not already, and share in the DMs your favorite way to use AI, especially at work or in your personal life. And we'll certainly share those in our stories.
Starting point is 00:33:59 Thank you so much. Keep like, following, sharing, listening, all of that fun stuff. Bye, besties. Shake it, following, sharing, listening, all of that fun stuff. Bye besties. Shake it like it's salt, shake it.

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