technologyreseller.co.uk 33 Useful apps Amelia Kallman also advocates learning through experimentation and suggests leaving time in your schedule to discover new AI apps, such as USnap, which employs all the large language models in one application with 30 different personas for writing in different styles, and Flow from Wispr, a voice-first writing tool that lets you dictate responses to email and other apps almost four times faster than by typing. From a management standpoint, Anatoliy Polyanker recommends identifying the early adopters in your teams and making them AI evangelists. “These people will fool around with AI and will learn how to use new tools. They will bring insights and they will share best practices with the rest of the organisation. We’ve done it with our team and the overall level of AI awareness is growing,” he said. This is an approach that Grace Beverley feels strongly about too, drawing an unexpected analogy between AI and air fryers. “As a founder, what I really like to see is more sharing of the great things we’re all using and all these new AI products that are coming out. You’re never going to use something if you don’t start integrating it. If you get an air fryer and you don’t use it in the first week, you’ll never “One of our biggest downfalls is that we don’t have that good a hold on how long things take us. We have it in our heads that composing a longer email takes 15 minutes, when a lot of the time it might take half an hour or 45 minutes. I used to recommend spending a week or two recording in a notebook what you did and how long it took you. Instead of that, start plugging it into ChatGPT. Get ChatGPT to learn how long you take to complete each task. Then, when it comes to time-blocking at the beginning of the day, when you have several meetings and need to get a report done and respond to this and that, getting ChatGPT to do it for you based on a memory and understanding of how long each of those tasks takes you could be hugely effective.” “We get very comfortable with the way that we do things every day, so you have to create that disruption. Almost every single time I think ‘Ugh, I don’t want to spend 10 minutes doing that or 20 minutes doing that or 30 minutes doing that’, I realise there is a way that AI could do it. If I am in a rush and my approval is needed for something that requires me to read a big block of text, I can put that into ChatGPT and break it down into bullet points and get highlight actions. Or I can use ChatGPT to turn meeting notes into actions or to present data clearly in a table. That’s how I’m disrupting my routine.” She advises people, especially those who don’t identify as early adopters, to begin by measuring how long it takes them to complete everyday tasks. Ask the experts Meet the panellists Moderator Viviane Paxinos: CEO of AllBright, the career network for women. Panellists Grace Beverley: Founder of Retrograde, an AI alternative to talent management, as well as fashion brand Tala, fitness tech brand Shreddy and personal productivity business The Productivity Method. Amelia Kallman: Leading futurist, speaker and author, specialising in emerging and future opportunities, trends and risks. Anatoliy Polyanker: VP and GM of Logitech MX, creator of workplace solutions for creative professionals, software developers, data analysts and other advanced computer users. continued...
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