How To Build AI Workshops That Actually Work - AI Moment Longer Episode 1

In this week's episode of The AI Moment, Jonathan Wagstaffe and I tackle a critical question facing almost every business leader right now: how do you run an AI workshop that actually changes behaviour?

Recorded on a day when half the internet (including ChatGPT) went down thanks to Cloudflare, we discuss why reliance on tools isn't enough you need resilience and a proper strategy. We break down the reality of the "AI bell curve" in your teams.

In any room of ten people, you’ll have two power users and two sceptics who refuse to engage. The magic happens when you can move that middle majority from fear to fascination.

• The Pre-Work Requirement: Why I never start a workshop without surveying the team first. If you don't know the problem they are solving, you are just teaching them features, not workflows.

• Breaking Muscle Memory: How to use practical exercises like "True or Fake" or "Vibe Coding" to force marketeers and sales teams out of their old habits and into immediate prototyping.

• The EIE Framework: My "Educate, Inspire, Entertain" model. If you aren't entertaining your team, you aren't removing the fear barrier.

• Sales Team Resistance: Why sales teams are often the hardest to crack but the quickest to convert once they see AI as a coach rather than a replacement.

Stop treating AI enablement as a "one-and-done" training day. You need to identify internal "Captains" and "Champions" to keep the momentum going. If leadership doesn't drive this top-down, you will remain stuck in a cycle of "start-stop" innovation.

Don't outsource your brain to an agency. Your goal must be self-sufficiency. Start your first internal experiment today—even if it's just getting your sales team to roleplay a difficult customer with an LLM. If you need a framework to get started, look at our "Educate, Inspire, Entertain" model or reach out to us for a workshop that moves the needle.

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Danny Denhard & Jonathan Wagstaffe

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