AI Readiness Workshop
Any team — all-hands, department meetings, training sessions
Help a team surface their current AI knowledge, concerns, and priorities — and align on next steps.
Workshop Goal
The Problem
Help a team surface their current AI knowledge, concerns, and priorities — and align on next steps.
What You'll Achieve
- Surface current AI attitudes and usage patterns
- Reveal where team opinions diverge on AI tradeoffs
- Generate ideas for AI adoption or concerns to address
- Align on which AI priorities matter most right now
Facilitator Value
Safe For The Office™ handles the technology, timing, and participant experience. You focus on the conversation.
Workshop Timeline
A step-by-step structure for the full 60-minute session.
- Icebreaker Experience 10 minWarm up. Lower defenses. Get people talking.Open with: "We're not here to decide anything today. We're here to understand where we are as a team."
- Team Polls 12 minSurface current AI attitudes and usage patterns.Pause on any question where the split is 50/50 or surprising. Ask: "Does this result surprise anyone?"
- Would You Rather 10 minReveal where opinions diverge on AI tradeoffs.The goal is not consensus — it's conversation. Let disagreement breathe.
- Idea Storm 12 minGenerate ideas for AI adoption or concerns to address.Read ideas aloud before moving to Priority Poker. It primes the room.
- Priority Poker 12 minAlign on which AI priorities matter most right now.After reveal: "Look at where we aligned. That's your starting point."
Facilitator Guide
Key Notes
- Open with: "We're not here to decide anything today. We're here to understand where we are as a team."
- After Polls: pause on any question where the split is 50/50 or surprising.
- After WYR: the goal is not consensus — it's conversation. Let disagreement breathe.
- After Idea Storm: read ideas aloud before moving to Priority Poker.
- After Priority Poker: "Look at where we aligned. That's your starting point."
Discussion Tips
- What did you learn about your team just now?
- Where did you expect agreement and find disagreement?
- What's one thing you'd want to explore further after today?
Closing Prompts
- "What's one thing you're taking away from this session?"
- "What's one question you still have about AI at work?"
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