<h2 id="ac480301-f78d-4150-9417-56eb01e6bbfe" data-toc-id="ac480301-f78d-4150-9417-56eb01e6bbfe" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Give people a shared starting point</h2><p>AI tools often show up long before a team agrees on how to use them well. A shared foundation helps people ask clearer questions, check results and notice when a task needs human judgment.</p><p>The Conference Board's 2026 skilling release reports that 28.3% of surveyed workers said their employer provided no AI training. That's a worker-reported finding. It isn't a census of organizations, and it can't describe your own team.</p><h2 id="11ca8e4c-becc-45a8-8990-f03dda45c74b" data-toc-id="11ca8e4c-becc-45a8-8990-f03dda45c74b" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Teach habits that travel and rules that stay local</h2><p>Some habits work across tools: explaining the task, giving relevant context, checking a source and noticing uncertainty. People also need guidance for the actual tools, accounts and information your organization approves.</p><p>Foundations and tool-specific training support each other. Waiting for every technology decision to settle can delay useful learning, and practicing in an unapproved environment creates its own problem. Start with an approved, bounded exercise.</p><h2 id="79de51e2-a79b-4814-8dc5-20364310ed2a" data-toc-id="79de51e2-a79b-4814-8dc5-20364310ed2a" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Build a practical baseline</h2><ul><li><p>Explain what the model can help with and where its output may be unreliable.</p></li><li><p>Write a task with clear context, constraints and an expected result.</p></li><li><p>Check claims, calculations and quoted sources against reliable evidence.</p></li><li><p>Recognize information that shouldn't enter the chosen environment.</p></li><li><p>Know who reviews external work and where to escalate uncertainty.</p></li></ul><p>Then ask the learner to show those habits on a realistic example, with a plausible error to find. Confidence is worth talking about. The output and the explanation show what someone can do.</p><h2 id="141c7e2c-5087-4e12-beab-43c4cae5175a" data-toc-id="141c7e2c-5087-4e12-beab-43c4cae5175a" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Make room for practice</h2><p>Give people time, access and someone who can answer questions. Follow the foundation with a task from the learner's role, then feedback and another try. People learn at different speeds from casual experimentation, so don't assume everyone has picked it up.</p><p>Microsoft and LinkedIn's 2024 Work Trend Index reported surveyed leaders' views on AI skills in hiring. That's historical context. It doesn't guarantee a career outcome, and it doesn't set your current hiring policy.</p><p>What AI task does your team already attempt, and how do you check that it's done well? Use that answer to choose your first learning exercise.</p><p>Sources: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.conference-board.org/press/ai-skilling">The Conference Board, 2026</a>; <a target="_blank" href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/08/microsoft-and-linkedin-release-the-2024-work-trend-index-on-the-state-of-ai-at-work/">Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2024</a>.</p>

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