6 Question AI Era Readiness Assessment

The fastest path to discovering your AI Era readiness, adapted from The Jensen Group’s 50-75 question Future Strong Assessment?.

One Rule: Be Courageously Vulnerable

In taking this assessment, your goal is not to impress yourself or to look great. Be truly candid and truthful with your replies. (Nobody’s recording your replies. This is just for you.) Your goal is to discover areas that possibly need upskilling, mentoring, or additional work and discipline.

Consider each question carefully before responding. (As with all assessments, there can be nuanced layers built into each simple question. Also: Be sure to enable images: Questions are in the pix.)

• Only respond Strongly Agree if you’d consider your performance among best-in-class.
• Respond Agree if you perform that skill well — but not as well, or as often, or as consistently, as you know you should.
• If you believe that a skill is not your strength, and that your performance needs to improve: Then Disagree or Stronger Disagree.

1. In the AI Era, algorithms do more managing than managers do, and many of our behaviors will be driven by technologies that can outthink most of us. Your success in this era will depend on your ability to create and control your own destiny — which begins with constant focus on your personal definition of success, and how you’ll get there.

2. In the AI Era, the need for your ability to... A) Cut through all the clutter and crap... B) Be a trusted source of information as disinformation ramps up... C) Communicate clearly, concisely, quickly, and with intense value... Will exponentially increase.

3. The AI Era will continuously force you out of your comfort zone. How prepared are you to take that on — proactively? Intentionally taking yourself outside of your comfort zone?

4. The AI Era will continuously push your limits. Do you have a disciplined, rigorous approach for learning how to do that? And are you skilled at proactively learning to push your limits through digital simulations? Or are you still an Old School learner? (Old School is fantastic, but probably not fast enough for you to keep up.) ?

5. The AI Era will demand of all of us to rapidly unlearn, relearn, upskill. Again, again, and again. Under constant pressure. Have you mastered that?

6. The AI Era doesn’t care if you burn yourself out. But you need to.

Scoring

Next Steps

How did you do? For those who truly answered with courageous vulnerability — deeply honestly — if you scored Future Passive, with three or more AGREES, welcome to the club! You’re among the majority of us. Most of us are not quite ready for the AI Era.

Remember the context: This assessment is NOT about workplace AI initiatives, or your ChatGPT superskills, or your ability to turn descriptions into AI-created articles, images, or videos.

The focus of this newsletter, and this assessment, is on YOU. Your ability to leverage what makes you, you… in an era driven by analytics and algorithms. The hard and soft skills you’ll need to thrive in an era that’s highly disruptive, with tools that are smarter than all of us.

If you scored Future Passive (3 or more Agrees)...

Or Future Shackled (3 or more Disragrees, Strongly Disagrees)...

• Discuss your results with friends and family. As they know you the best, ask for their insights. Ask them to also take the assessment and compare notes.
• Target the Agree/ Disagree/ Strongly Disagree areas for rapid improvement.
• Seek coaches or mentors — someone you trust to push you out of your comfort zones, and provide tough love when needed.
• Seek learning programs to develop those areas.
• Set by-year’s-end improvement targets

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Bill Jensen is a seasoned strategy and transformation executive, advisor to C-suite execs, globally-known keynote speaker, and author of nine best-selling leadership and change books, including Simplicity, Disrupt, Future Strong, and The Day Tomorrow Said No. Reach him at [email protected] .