How to Coach a Human with AI 🧞♂️
What you're in for
🚀 Why my client cried tears of joy when I used AI
🚀 The basics of prompt engineering
🚀 How to create an AI toolset to augment your workflow
🚀 How to treat AI like your intern
What you'll need
✅ A device (computer is best)
✅ A generative AI, such as ChatGPT (chatGPT.com) or Claude (claude.ai)
✅ A sense of curiosity
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Things I've been paid to do
ICF-Certified Life & Engagement Coach
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I help people find meaning the midst of turbulent change. 🚢
CoachGPT
GPT: What's your takeaway from today?
Me: That AI is going to replace coaches??
GPT: Don't worry.
Human coaches can't be replaced by computers.
ChatGPT, write a poem like Ada Limon...
I felt nothing.
"Not very creative."
AI is algorithmic.
Algorithm: a set of instructions
"If the client uses sad words, show concern, and offer them a tissue."
"If they use happy words, ask them how they would like to celerate."
Coaching is creative
Creativity: something new and useful in a sociocultural context (Plucker, et al., 2016)
AI can create, but it is not creative. It has no context unless humans provide it.
What will shift in an AI-powered world?
- Customer service
- Some forms of music/film
- Books
- Healthcare
- Education
- Finance
- Legal services
- etc.
What will we crave?
- Outside-the-box thinking. AI is literally inside the box.
- Moral and ethical reasoning; computers don't have core values.
- Emotional intelligence: we learn through experience
- Embracing vulnerability and incompetence
- Creating and guiding communities
- Interpersonal skills
- Using somatic (body) information
- Genuine human warmth
- Personal connection
This is what we help people do.
We are the future.
Let's have some fun
Poetry time
Let's engineer a prompt
ziahassan.space/promptengineering
Objective: get AI to tell you about your core values without telling it any of your values.
Hint: if you're not sure how to do this, ask ChatGPT.
Zia's technique for Core Values
"GPT, ask me at least 3 clarifying questions before moving on."
Hallucination
When AI makes up information; use your human brain
That time AI made my wife cry 😢
I help non-profit organizations create impactful public policy changes by leveraging my strategic thinking and strong work ethic, along with my ability to build and maintain strong relationships. I do it because I believe in the power of empathy-led advocacy to bring about meaningful change for those in need.
Try it
Explain your story, your background, your core values, your aspirations, and then ask your AI to tell you 3 versions of your mission statement.
Awareness of resonance
AI is generative. Ask your client what resonates.
Try it
Your client needs career direction and you want to use AI to assist. What do you do?
Examples of Coaching Prompts
http://ziahassan.space/aicareerpivot
Let's use AI like an intern
Pick a task (make sure to iterate)
- Get AI to figure out your niche (who you serve and how you serve them).
- Get AI to generate a list of progressive accountabilities (atomic habits) to move toward their goal.
- Get AI to write a business plan.
Try it
A client wants to write a book. How could you use AI to help your client create micro-actions?
Pick one
- Practice having a difficult conversation
- Get AI to help you reframe a perspective
- Get AI to give you feedback on something in a coachy way
- Get AI to create a metaphor for your topic
- Get AI to generate reflective/powerful questions about a topic
- Come up with your own!