Let’s be honest, most leaders today are maxed out.
You’re running from one meeting to the next, triaging a never-ending stream of emails, and trying to be thoughtful in your communication—but time is always working against you. You want to respond quickly, but also personally. You want to stay on top of industry trends, but who has hours to dig through reports? And when you’re finally ready to make a decision, you’d love sharper insights, not just more noise.
This is the reality for most modern leaders: high expectations, limited time, and an ever-growing demand to communicate with clarity, empathy, and speed.
That’s exactly where AI can help.
Used intentionally, AI won’t replace your leadership—it will amplify it. It can help you communicate faster, make better use of the data in front of you, and carve out more space for high-value thinking.
The Leadership Coach Group’s new playbook, AI for Personal Effectiveness Leadership Playbook, was built with your reality in mind. It offers clear, practical ways to use AI that keep you authentic, sharp, and focused on what matters most.
AI is here. Leaders who understand how to leverage it (without losing their voice or values) will move faster, make better decisions, and create more connections.
In this blog post, we walk through key strategies from the AI for Personal Effectiveness playbook—showing you how to lead smarter in a fast-moving world. You’ll learn how to delegate the draft (not the discernment), personalize communication at scale, and use AI tools to enhance clarity, connection, and impact—without compromising your authenticity.
1. Start With Strategic Prompts: The COMPASS Framework
AI is only as effective as the prompt you give it. For leaders, this isn’t just about being technically correct—it’s about being strategically clear. When you use vague or generic prompts, AI outputs can feel off-base, tone-deaf, or just plain useless. But when you’re intentional, you get results that reflect your voice, values, and vision.
That’s where prompt engineering becomes a leadership skill.
The AI for Personal Effectiveness playbook introduces a simple yet powerful tool to guide your prompts: the COMPASS Framework. It helps ensure your AI interactions are precise, purposeful, and aligned with how you want to lead.
Here’s what it includes:
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Context – What’s the situation or background?
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Outcome – What do you need the AI to produce?
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Model a Role – What leadership lens should the AI adopt (e.g., CEO, coach, strategist)?
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Presentation – How should the information be delivered (e.g., email, bullets, table)?
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Audience – Who is the message for, and what do they care about?
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Style – What tone best represents you? (Warm, direct, inspiring?)
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Scope – What boundaries should the AI follow (e.g., length, number of points)?
Used together, these elements help you get responses that save time, reduce back-and-forth, and feel authentically you.
2. Create a Custom GPT That Writes Like You
One of the biggest concerns leaders have about using AI is this: “It doesn’t sound like me.” That’s where a Custom GPT changes the game. A Custom GPT is your own tailored version of ChatGPT—built to understand your tone, values, communication style, and recurring leadership tasks. Instead of sounding generic, it starts every draft closer to how you would naturally speak or write.
To create one, you’ll need a paid ChatGPT plan (like Plus or Pro), a few short writing samples (think: recent emails, team updates, or LinkedIn posts), and a clear sense of how you want to show up as a leader—decisive, warm, clear, concise. From there, you can train your Custom GPT to reflect your voice, stay within brand guidelines, and generate consistent, on-point content for everything from executive messages to meeting briefs.
The AI for Personal Effectiveness playbook offers a clear, step-by-step activity to walk you through building your own Custom GPT—from initial setup to refining your voice, use cases, and guardrails. If you want to move faster without sacrificing authenticity, this is your next leadership edge.
3. Use AI to Analyze and Synthesize Faster
In today’s fast-moving environment, leaders don’t have time to wade through dense reports or lengthy slide decks. Tools like Gemini can do the heavy lifting—quickly summarizing key trends, highlighting critical insights, and structuring decision-ready briefs in formats that fit your workflow. Whether you need a TL;DR to skim before a meeting or a comparison table to weigh options, Gemini helps you cut straight to what matters.
It doesn’t stop at text, either. Gemini can even turn a long document into an audio overview—a podcast-style summary you can listen to on the go. So whether you’re prepping for a board meeting during your commute or catching up on industry research between calls, you get what you need, when you need it, in the format that works best for you.
4. Tailor Communication with AI-Powered Personality Insights
Whether you’re preparing for a high-stakes negotiation, delivering feedback, or aligning with a key stakeholder, one-size-fits-all communication won’t cut it. Understanding who you’re speaking to—and how they prefer to receive information—can make the difference between connection and confusion.
That’s where Humantic AI comes in. It’s an AI-powered tool that analyzes publicly available data, such as LinkedIn profiles, to generate personality insights and behavioral cues. Based on models like DISC and OCEAN, it identifies key traits—like whether someone is data-driven, detail-oriented, fast-paced, or relationship-focused. From there, it offers actionable guidance: how to structure your message, which words to avoid, how much detail to include, and the best way to make your ask.
By adjusting your tone, language, and approach based on the person you’re engaging with, you not only increase your chances of being heard—you build trust faster, reduce friction, and lead with greater emotional intelligence.
AI is powerful, but it’s not perfect. It doesn’t replace your judgment, your values, or your ability to lead with empathy and clarity. Tools like ChatGPT and Gemini can accelerate your workflow, but they still need your discernment. They can draft, summarize, and suggest—but only you can decide what’s meaningful, what’s ethical, and what’s right for your team.
That said, AI isn’t going anywhere. It’s already transforming the way we lead, work, and communicate. The leaders who thrive in this next chapter won’t be the ones who resist it, they’ll be the ones who learn to use it wisely and stay grounded in who they are while doing so.
If you missed our recent webinar, Leaders Leveraging AI for Personal Effectiveness, or if you want to revisit the tools and strategies we covered, you can:
Watch the full webinar replay
️ Explore the resource page
Download the free AI Playbook
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