You Ask, I Answer: Generative AI For Developing Thought Leadership?

In today’s episode, you’ll explore how to use AI to develop compelling thought leadership content. You’ll learn what constitutes true thought leadership and discover effective frameworks for structuring your ideas. I’ll also share crucial tips for ensuring your content stands out from the crowd, so tune in to elevate your thought leadership game with the power of AI.

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In today’s episode, Liza asks, “What are some frameworks for developing thought leadership concepts using AI?” That’s a big question. First, we should probably try to define what some of these terms mean. A framework is a structure. It’s a structure to help people remember how to do something and remember the concept around something. For example, the Trust Insights REPEL framework for AI prompt engineering: Role, Action, Prime, Prompt, Evaluate, Learn. That six-step process gives people memory anchors for what they’re supposed to do when writing a great prompt for generative AI. So that’s what we mean by frameworks—some kind of structure.

Developing thought leadership concepts is a really amorphous expression. “Thought leadership” alone is a challenging and challenged term. In my younger, more spiteful days, I used to say that thought leadership was thinking about leading, and one day you might actually do it. That’s not so helpful. Today, my definition of thought leadership that is a little more helpful is that one person’s thinking changes how someone else leads. So, if you are a thought leader, your thinking changes how I lead as a leader within a business.

We need to define thought leadership concepts or content as the kind of thinking you want to share that would change how other people lead. So, what are some frameworks for developing that kind of thinking? The easiest way to do that with AI is to ask AI to help you with that and to provide these exact definitions (or whatever your definitions of thought leadership or framework are) and then say, “Here’s a concept I would like to build a thought leadership concept or framework around.” It really is just asking the machine, “How do you do this thing?”

For example, here I asked a generative AI to come up with a generic (and to be clear, this is very generic) framework for thought leadership, and it came up with SPARK: Strategize, Personalize, Analyze, Research, and Kindle, which is fine. It’s okay. It needs some refinement. Part of thought leadership—and this is an ongoing challenge—is having a unique and clear point of view. Using generative AI to just build a thought leadership framework is probably not going to create something unique. By definition, it’s going to create things at a higher probability.

So, you need to go into your work with generative AI for thought leadership with a clear point of view and a clear opinion: “This is the way that I think about this thing; help me build this into a framework, but this is my unique perspective.” This is as opposed to, “Hey, machine, give me a thought leadership perspective.” That’s not going to go well because it’s going to be filled with trite and unoriginal stuff.

So, the big question for you as someone who’s thinking about this is, what thinking (because remember, your thoughts change how someone else leads) are you doing right now that would change how someone else leads in whatever your field is? Once you’ve figured that out (which is the hard part), then you can have generative AI help you build a nice framework around it. It’s a good question, a challenging question, but I hope that is helpful.

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