60 min 5 activities LearningInsightPlanning

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.

  1. Icebreaker Experience 10 min
    Warm 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."
  2. Team Polls 12 min
    Surface current AI attitudes and usage patterns.
    Pause on any question where the split is 50/50 or surprising. Ask: "Does this result surprise anyone?"
  3. Would You Rather 10 min
    Reveal where opinions diverge on AI tradeoffs.
    The goal is not consensus — it's conversation. Let disagreement breathe.
  4. Idea Storm 12 min
    Generate ideas for AI adoption or concerns to address.
    Read ideas aloud before moving to Priority Poker. It primes the room.
  5. Priority Poker 12 min
    Align 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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