Summary: AI Lens is an optional, no-cost enhancement to our Manager Core workshops that helps managers practice timeless leadership skills in AI-enabled workplace scenarios. Learn how it works, how it’s personalized, and why organizations are using it to support AI transformation.
AI is showing up in every planning conversation, and it’s quickly becoming part of learning and development strategies, too. Many HR and L&D leaders face growing pressure to show how leadership development supports AI transformation while preparing managers for new ways of working.
That’s why we created AI Lens.
What is AI Lens?
AI Lens is an optional, no-cost enhancement that updates our flagship Manager Core Program for an AI-enabled workplace, while preserving the proven leadership skills managers need most.
Going beyond technical skills such as prompt engineering, it focuses on the more human side of AI enablement by integrating AI-driven scenarios, discussion prompts, and practice activities into our existing Manager Core workshops: Coaching, Feedback, Effective 1-1s, and Delegation. Managers learn the same science-backed Tipping Point Skills™ with updated context for today’s workplace.
We created AI Lens because the leadership skills managers need haven’t changed, but many of the situations they’re leading through have.
The foundation stays the same:
- The same Manager Core workshops
- The same science-backed Tipping Point Skills™
- The same learning objectives
- Live facilitation and practice
AI Lens adds:
- AI-enabled workplace scenarios
- Updated examples and discussion prompts
- Practice conversations around AI-assisted work
- Opportunities to build judgment, accountability, and ownership in AI-enabled environments
How AI Lens shows up in each workshop
Each AI Lens enhancement helps managers apply evergreen leadership skills to the new conversations AI creates around judgment, accountability, clarity, and ownership.
Coaching in AI-enabled workplaces
As AI takes on more of the work, managers play an even bigger role in developing judgment, confidence, and ownership.
In Coaching with AI Lens, participants practice the same coaching tools and behaviors in scenarios where AI is part of the workflow. Managers explore how to coach employees through uncertainty, strengthen critical thinking, and build ownership as AI becomes part of everyday work.
Feedback on AI-assisted work
As organizations adopt AI tools, people need clarity around expectations, transparency about impact, and psychological safety to discuss AI use openly. Strong feedback habits help create the trust, fairness, and accountability teams need as work changes.
In Feedback with AI Lens, managers explore how to set expectations around AI use and help employees build the judgment needed to evaluate, refine, and take ownership of AI-assisted work. It helps managers navigate new questions around quality, accountability, and employee development.
Example: Deblurring feedback on AI-assisted work
Participants learn to Deblur common feedback on AI-assisted work. Deblurring means converting any blurred words (words that can mean different things to different people) into clear, observable behaviors.
| Blurred Feedback on AI-assisted work | Deblurred Feedback on AI-assisted work |
| “Your proposal feels AI-generated.” | “The draft included claims that were not verified against the source material.” |
| “You relied on AI too much.” | “You pasted AI output into the client memo without adding your own recommendation or noting uncertainties.” |
| “Your summary is awesome.” | “Your summary included all dates, owners, and action items.” |
1:1s through AI-driven change
As roles evolve, regular 1:1s are an important opportunity for managers to create clarity, support learning, and keep people engaged through change.
In Effective 1:1s with AI Lens, managers explore how to use 1:1 conversations to discuss AI adoption, clarify expectations, support career growth, and help employees navigate change. It helps managers build trust and connection as work evolves.
Delegation across people and AI
Effective delegation now requires managers to make thoughtful decisions about what to delegate to people and what AI can support. When delegating to AI, they must then determine how to maintain ownership, accountability, and opportunities for growth.
In Delegation with AI Lens, managers explore how to divide work between people and AI while maintaining accountability, developing employee capabilities, and reducing overload. It helps managers make better decisions about how work gets done in AI-enabled workflows.
Example: Diagnosing when and how to use AI on work
Participants receive a quick diagnostic framework to use when a team member is deciding whether and how to use AI on a piece of work. Higher stakes, uncertainty, and irreversibility should shift the balance toward more human ownership; not less AI, but more deliberate human involvement at each step.
Why organizations choose AI Lens
AI Lens gives HR and L&D leaders a way to align leadership development with one of their organization’s biggest strategic priorities, without replacing programs that already work.
AI Lens modernizes proven manager training by placing timeless leadership skills in present-day, AI-enabled scenarios. Managers build the same core capabilities while gaining language for judgment, accountability, boundaries, and responsible decision-making as AI becomes part of everyday work.
For organizations investing in AI, adding AI Lens means leadership development can advance alongside technology adoption rather than trail behind it. As AI increases the volume and velocity of work, managers learn the leadership behaviors that help teams adapt without losing trust, ownership, or high standards.
| Leadership matters for AI adoption. Teams are 2x more likely to have high AI usage when managers clearly communicate a vision for AI, support employees in using it, and encourage AI skill development. Source: Gallup |
Organizations choose to add AI Lens because it helps them:
- Protect their investment in proven manager training with a credible modernization path.
- Equip managers to guide AI transformation through stronger coaching, feedback, delegation, and 1:1 conversations.
- Help employees build better judgment, accountability, and confidence as AI becomes part of their daily work.
- Help managers become confident guides through AI adoption, so new technology is matched by the leadership habits employees need to use it well.
How AI Lens is personalized for your organization
Whether you’re rolling out enterprise-wide tools, experimenting team-by-team, have well-defined policies, or are still figuring out what responsible AI use looks like, Manager Core with AI Lens can fit into your training strategy and help accelerate your AI transformation.
Before the program begins, your consultant works with you to understand your organization’s AI tools, policies, expectations, and constraints. That way, facilitators can tailor examples, discussions, and practice scenarios to your managers’ day-to-day realities. Rather than speaking about AI in general, participants practice leadership skills in situations that reflect the opportunities and challenges they’re actually facing.
We explore:
- What success looks like for your AI strategy over the next 12-18 months.
- Where your managers feel least prepared as AI changes the way work gets done.
- What is slowing AI adoption or making it difficult for teams to realize its full value.
- How AI is changing employees’ work today, and where they are struggling most.
With this strategic context, your leadership training can reflect your organization’s unique AI journey, not just the broader market conversation.
Leadership development shouldn’t fall behind your AI strategy
AI is changing the conversations managers have every day about quality, ownership, decision-making, learning, and accountability. AI Lens allows managers to practice those conversations before they need to have them on the job.
Whether your organization is just beginning to explore AI or scaling it across teams, AI Lens helps managers build the leadership habits for successful AI transformation and lasting behavior change.
Want to see how AI Lens could fit into your Manager Core Program? We’d love to show you how it works. Get in touch
Is AI Lens a separate workshop?
No. AI Lens is an optional enhancement to our Manager Core workshops. It adds AI-related scenarios, examples, and practice while preserving the same learning objectives and leadership skills.
Is there an additional cost?
No. AI Lens is available as a no-cost enhancement to eligible Manager Core workshops.
Which workshops include AI Lens?
AI Lens is available for Manager Core Program workshops:
Coaching
Feedback
Effective 1:1s
Delegation
How is AI Lens different from AI training?
Most AI training focuses on tools; AI Lens focuses on leadership skills. Managers learn how to lead people through AI transformation by strengthening judgment, accountability, communication, coaching, and decision-making.
Do participants need AI experience?
Not at all. The workshops are designed for organizations at different stages of AI adoption, from early experimentation to more mature implementations.
Can AI Lens be customized?
Yes. Before the program begins, we work with your team to understand your organization’s goals, AI initiatives, policies, and challenges. Facilitators then tailor examples and practice scenarios so the learning reflects your managers’ day-to-day reality.
How do we know if AI Lens is right for our organization?
If your organization is exploring, adopting, or expanding AI and you want your manager training to reflect those changes, AI Lens is designed for you. We’ll work with you to understand your goals and tailor the workshop to your AI strategy.
Is AI Lens available for all LifeLabs workshops?
Today, AI Lens is available as an enhancement to our Manager Core workshops in Coaching, Feedback, Effective 1:1s, and Delegation.
