 Your source for remarkable recruiting strategies, tips and trends  New tools! Innovative pilots! Dazzling dashboards! And then … a nap. If you’re feeling a little snoozy or burned out on AI adoption, executive coach and talent development expert Naphtali Bryant is here to help. His new course, Accelerating AI Adoption: Leadership Strategies for Talent Development, is unlocked through May 14 to help you find the energy, tactics, and impact to lead with heart. Naphtali starts from a clear premise: AI adoption doesn’t succeed or fail because of technology alone. It succeeds — or stalls — based on leadership behavior. His course covers the inspirational side of leadership (cultivating exploration, building bravery, and remaining centered amid turbulence) as well as the practical side — how to run successful pilots and sustain adoption in daily workflows. An idea to use right away: Get the right feedbackWhen AI adoption loses speed, leaders often look first at the tool itself. Is it intuitive enough? Is it the right platform? Do people need more training? But as Naphtali explains in the course, a more revealing question is often this: What aren’t people saying yet? People may be unsure whether struggling is acceptable. They may not know if their experience truly matters. And they may not feel confident that speaking up will lead to meaningful change. When that uncertainty goes unaddressed, learning slows. Experimentation drops — not because people lack capability, but because they lack clarity and confidence. How asking questions fuels faster AI adoptionWhen leaders ask for honest feedback on themselves and how they are leading, something important shifts. Bryant illustrates this with an example from his work with a financial services leader who was driving change. Instead of pushing harder, the leader shifted how he listened. At the start of every monthly team meeting, he asked three simple questions about how the change was going: - What helped?
- What got in the way?
- What should I adjust?
At first, responses were careful and surface-level. Over time, that changed. People stopped sugarcoating. They began naming what they actually needed. Within a quarter, the leader’s division was moving faster than others, and integrating AI in ways that drove immediate results — not because it had better tools, but because people trusted the process and believed their input mattered. A simple framework: Ask, Align, AdjustTo make feedback practical and repeatable, Naphtali’s course offers a clear, three-part structure: ASK: What are people actually experiencing?Start with real, recent work — not hypotheticals or future plans. Helpful questions include: - Where did you feel supported trying something new this month?
- Where did I unintentionally get in the way?
- What’s one thing that would help you try again next week?
These questions work because they keep feedback specific. They bring leadership behavior into the conversation. And they signal confidence without defensiveness. ALIGN: What matters most right now?Next, turn input into shared understanding by focusing the group on what matters most. Key questions include: - Where are early signs of value showing up?
- Where are people getting stuck, and why?
- What decision or clarification does the team need?
Alignment reduces noise and focuses energy where it counts. ADJUST: What will be done with what was heard?This step determines credibility. Ask: - What small change will be made this month based on this feedback?
- Who owns the adjustment, and how will progress be checked?
- What will be communicated so the team knows it was heard?
Public adjustment builds trust. People believe what they see leaders do — not what leaders say they’ll consider. Feedback without action erodes momentum faster than silence. Final thoughts: Momentum is built through leadership, not pressureAI adoption doesn’t require leaders to have all the answers. It requires creating the conditions where learning can happen quickly and safely. That’s the throughline of Naphtali’s course. Sometimes, the fastest way to pick up speed is to pause, ask better questions, and show people that their voice truly matters. Watch the course now: Accelerating AI Adoption: Leadership Strategies for Talent Development. 
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