What Should a Principal Do When Parents Demand an AI Ban?
Parents who demand an AI ban usually want an answer to the worry underneath it. Here is the Ten-Day Reply, an answer, a concession and a date, with a template a principal can adapt this week.
Filed under
AI Adoption and Organisational Change
Adoption, culture, resistance, champions, pilots, scaling and behaviour change.
This section brings together 11 insights on AI Adoption and Organisational Change, with research, practical frameworks and lessons from working with leaders.
11 pieces
Should Teachers Use AI to Write School Reports? Where to Draw the Line
Thirty-nine percent of teachers already use AI on pupil reports, and most schools have no rule for it. AI may write the sentences. It may not supply the particulars. Here is the test, and the six lines to settle before this term's reports go home.
What Should Leaders Do When Staff Get AI Wrong?
Treat an AI error as misconduct and you will not hear about the next one. Treat it as nothing and the rule was decorative. The Rule-First Test asks whether the organization had a rule specific enough to break before it asks anything about the person.
What Do You Tell Staff Who Fear AI Will Replace Them?
When a member of staff asks whether AI will take their job, they are asking about their tasks, not their title, and most of those tasks have already moved. Four answers a leader can give that are true, and the one promise you can actually keep.
Your Staff Know More About AI Than You Do. Now What?
Leaders who feel outpaced by their staff on AI try to close the gap by learning the tool. That is the wrong gap. Operating skill spreads on its own; understanding what the organization has already changed does not, and only a leader can supply it.
Why AI Champions Programs Fail: The Ceiling Nobody Plans For
Most AI champions programs do not fail. They stop, at the point where the next thing needed is a decision rather than a demonstration. The Champion's Ceiling names the four things no champion can do for you, and what a leadership team should do when the program reaches it.
Shadow AI: What Should Leaders Do When Staff Use Unapproved Tools?
Two thirds of office professionals have used AI at work believing they were not permitted to. Blocking it first takes away your visibility without changing the behavior. A way to diagnose what you find, and the three decisions that follow.
How to Move From AI Experimentation to Organization-Wide Adoption
AI use has already spread through your organization one person at a time and changed almost nothing about how it works. Scaling adoption is not a persuasion problem. It is a transfer problem, and there are four specific transfers to make.
How to Bring the AI Skeptics With You
Teacher opposition to classroom AI is rising. Dan Fitzpatrick explains why the skeptics are often right, gives leaders one question that finds what each skeptic is actually objecting to, and shows what to do with the one who will never be persuaded.
Why AI Pilots So Often Go Nowhere
Most AI pilots do not fail. They finish, somebody says "interesting", and nothing changes. Here are the seven leadership mistakes that leave pilots stranded, and the one question that stops them.
Why AI Adoption Is Really a Leadership Problem
When AI adoption stalls, organisations buy training or licences. The pattern underneath is almost always a leadership problem: nobody has decided what AI is for, modelled its use, removed what it replaces or made it safe to be seen using it.