Applying AI Discernment Workshop

Tipping Point Skills Taught:

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Productivity

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Strategic Thinking

AI adoption can create real value, but more AI use doesn’t automatically lead to better work. Poor task-level decisions can introduce errors, create costly review cycles, and replace valuable skill-building with unnecessary automation.

This workshop helps employees make better everyday decisions about where AI adds value and where human judgment matters most, improving the quality and consistency of AI adoption across your organization.

Participants learn a shared approach for deciding when AI belongs in the work, when it doesn’t, and how to hand off AI-assisted work without creating more work downstream.

Skills Taught:

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Teaches Instantly Useful Methods for
 Applying AI Discernment, Like:

MOP the Slop™

Method

MOP the Slop™ helps prevent AI-assisted work from turning into “workslop”: polished-looking output that creates confusion, extra review, or rework downstream. The method helps people make their judgment visible, take responsibility for what they share, and give others the context they need to evaluate and use AI-assisted work well.

The payoff: clearer handoffs, less avoidable rework, and stronger shared standards for quality AI-assisted work.

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What This Workshop Delivers

During this workshop, participants will:

  • Challenge common assumptions about AI, productivity, and performance so they can evaluate AI use more critically.
  • Use the four-check FLOW Method to decide whether to automate a task, augment it with AI, or keep it human-led.
  • Assess whether AI can perform a task reliably by separating evidence from assumptions and accounting for the full effort required, including setup, direction, verification, correction, and approval.
  • Protect important human skills by identifying where continued practice and judgment still matter.
  • Reduce risk by breaking complex tasks into smaller parts, testing assumptions, and adding human review where it matters most.
  • Use MOP the Slop™ to review and share AI-assisted work with the right context, accountability, and quality checks.
  • Make their own AI judgment visible, including mistakes and misses, so teams can learn from one another and build stronger shared norms.
  • Respond constructively when low-quality AI-assisted work creates confusion or extra work downstream.

After this workshop, participants will know how to:

  • A shared approach for deciding where AI belongs in the work and where it doesn’t.
  • The science-backed FLOW Method for making task-level AI decisions more consistently.
  • The MOP the Slop™ Method for reviewing and handing off AI-assisted work without shifting the burden downstream.
  • Shared language and standards for quality, accountability, and human judgment in AI-assisted work.
  • A FLOW score and a clear decision for a real task from their own work, including the reasoning behind it.
* Workshop details reflect the 120-minute workshop. Content and activities may be adjusted for the 60-minute and 90-minute formats.
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How this workshop accelerates your AI transformation

AI adoption depends on teams knowing when AI belongs in the work, how much human oversight a task requires, and what quality looks like before work moves forward. Applying AI Discernment helps teams make those calls by weighing AI reliability, effort, consequences, and the value of human practice. Participants learn shared standards for quality, ownership, and context in AI-assisted work. The result: more consistent AI decisions, reduced avoidable rework, strengthened review practices, and clearer accountability across teams.

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