How I use AI with my Coaching Clients
If you read my last blog, I gave you three tips for using AI – especially if you are brand new to tools like ChatGPT.
The last tip was about ChatGPT being a powerful tool when used in partnership with a human. However, the human should stay in charge. Ultimately, you are responsible for your actions and work.
From a coaching perspective, AI can be useful. For example, let’s say I ask a client what their options are, and they are struggling to identify any options. We might ask AI for its top six options. Then as my client reviews those options, they can quickly weed out the bad options and see the good one – which might be a combination of options and/or their own ideas. ChatGPT can help spur the client’s thinking when they feel stuck. (And notice in the partnership that the human is still in charge.)
Another way in which folks are using AI is in their job search. They use ChatGPT to optimize their résumé and/or cover letter. I think it’s fine to ask AI to make improvements to your résumé for a specific job application. Here’s how I would suggest you do it, to keep you in charge. Don’t submit the AI-optimized résumé! Rather, look at it and see what specific things are truly better, and then you make those changes to your original résumé.
I suggest you do it this way in order to keep you in charge of your résumé. I remember ten years ago a client brought me a résumé, and as I reviewed it I had a question. The client couldn’t answer the question because someone else had written that résumé for her! It’s the same issue here with AI. Anything on your résumé, you are going to have to be able to talk about and own in an interview. That is hard to do if you didn’t write it.
Remember, if everyone is optimizing their résumé with AI, then no one has an advantage anymore. Your real advantage is your authentic voice. (Sure, check that key words are represented on your résumé, but avoid long sentences laden with jargon that sound “smart,” but lack meaning.)
And don’t forget, AI isn’t always right! Confidence does not equal competence, and ChatGPT always sounds super confident. (I thought Ryan Holiday’s story – @ryanholiday – was very instructive: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNgfaftBJ3x/?igsh=MnFzenh0ZGR5dzZy)
Here’s a personal example from my last blog when I asked ChatGPT to create a meme for me, using the quote in the picture. ChatGPT assumed that my quote was combative, although that’s not my voice at all! It even made AI the scary statue guy in the background. This is fascinating: when AI got the chance, it didn’t use a neutral voice – it assumed it understood my mood from the words. Amazing! And it got it wrong.
So beware of this powerful tool and use it wisely!
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