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Session Focus:  A peer design charrette focused on moving AI adoption beyond training programs toward shared practice and sustained learning.
Many organizations can launch AI upskilling. Far fewer build the change conditions that make it stick—communication, manager support, and reinforcement in real work.
This design charrette builds on insights from Kate Haney’s October  <a href="https://www.ele.llc/insights/ai-practical-lab-from-whiteboard-to-workflow">✨ AI Practical Lab: From Whiteboard to Workflow</a> and recent community discussions around enterprise AI deployment.

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Borrowed from architecture, a design charrette brings experienced practitioners together to solve complex problems quickly. ELE Design Charrettes—introduced by <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/alaska-fu">Alaska Fu</a>, ELE’s Experience Designer—are focused, peer-powered working conversations that help leaders co-create and refine practical approaches in 50–90 minutes.
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Together, we’ll examine what it takes to move AI adoption from training to shared practice—where communication, support, and reinforcement drive real use. The focus is not on vendor selection, but on how leaders create conditions for experimentation, feedback, and real use.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-44503" src="https://wp.ele.llc/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ELE-POV-AIQ-EQ-IQ.png" alt="Diagram showing AIQ overlapping with IQ and EQ, illustrating how AI-enabled human judgment drives performance." width="699" height="393" />
Expect thoughtful peer input, design questions, and early patterns leaders can adapt inside their own organizations.
In our October AI Practical Lab, Kate Haney—leading enterprise AI reskilling at Zurich North America for more than a year—shared what’s working (and what’s stalling) in real organizations. One insight resonated deeply across the group:

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Successful AI upskilling isn’t just about training programs—it’s about communication, support, and real success stories that make it stick.
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That insight frames the AI Transformation model below—and why human-centered transformation requires far more than content or tools.

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Who Should Join

Leaders who are past experimenting with AI and now wrestling with a harder question: Why isn’t it sticking?
If you’re responsible for scaling AI use across managers, teams, or functions—and you’re seeing uneven adoption, stalled momentum, or “great tools, little behavior change”—you’ll be in the right room. This is especially relevant for HR, talent, learning, and transformation leaders who know AI adoption is no longer a training problem, but a practice, support, and reinforcement challenge.
How This Works

This 50-minute ELE Design Charrette isn’t a presentation. It opens with a short framing insight, then quickly moves into peer work. Participants compare notes on what actually shifts behavior at scale—how communication, manager support, and real success stories accelerate adoption, and where well-intended efforts quietly break down.
You’ll leave with clearer design patterns and sharper questions—not a framework to admire, but practical moves you can test immediately inside your organization.
Join the ELE Conversation
These every-other-Friday discussions are part of ELE’s ongoing peer exchange for leaders shaping talent and work in the AI era. Come ready to listen, contribute, and learn alongside peers testing ideas in real organizations and sharing what they’re learning.
Recordings are posted to <a href="https://www.ele.llc/insights">ELE Insights</a> within 2–4 business days.

Design Charrette: From AI Adoption to Shared Practice at Scale

single-event

future of work

learning strategy

Your Teams

Learning Circles

digital transformation

tracey.wik

teri.hart

innovation

Change Management

upskilling

talent development

Complimentary

online event

complimentary event

Culture Change

communication

collaboration

jason.gallo

Future of Work

Engagement &amp; Culture

continuous learning

reskilling

organizational change

peer-learning

L&amp;D

HR leaders

AI in HR

AI transformation

workplace adaptation

AI Adoption

knowledge sharing

michael.hruska

actionable insights

practical strategies

cindy.pinkstaffmiller

AI literacy

alaska.fu

1Q2026

AI maturity

manager capability

AI and learning

AI reskilling

ai resk

Design Charrette

reframing hr

scaling AI

practice at scale

reinforcement

manager support

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Session Focus: Managing Projects with Microsoft Teams
Case study: Embracing agile Project Management with Teams

Are you prepared for the future? Organizations need us, HR and L&amp;D, to help enable new ways of collaborating that engage, streamline, and keep people connected. We can make this happen with a focus on the critical team and individual practices and leveraging the right tools, which we may already have at our fingertips.

During this series of six one-hour interactive sessions, we will learn together. Both the challenges and best practices for leading a remote/hybrid team while increasing collaboration using MS Teams correctly:
<ul>
 	<li>Leveraging Teams for Learning</li>
 	<li>Managing Your Personal Experiences with MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Finding and managing files, chats, people, and more</li>
 	<li>Moving from Zoom/Adobe Connect/GoToMeeting to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Transitioning from MS-Outlook to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Managing projects with MS-Teams</li>
</ul>
Going back to the office will never be the same. After the pandemic, hybrid teams are now the new normal.
<ul>
 	<li>Use this as an opportunity to change your organization for the better by learning practical tips and best practices in effectively leading hybrid teams</li>
 	<li>Learn new approaches for virtual meetings using Microsoft Teams</li>
</ul>
This highly interactive session will allow you to upskill yourself while experimenting with MS-Teams for delivering online learning.

ELE produces this Upskilling HR for Digital Transformation Learning Circle that explores one or more of The Three Gaps uncovered by i4cp research on Automating Work: The Human/AI Intersection
<ul>
 	<li>The Organizational Capability Gap</li>
 	<li>The Workforce Motivation Gap</li>
 	<li>The HR Readiness Gap</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/work-automation-and-ai-mind-the-three-gaps" data-elementor-open-lightbox=""><img src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019CHIE_WorkAutomationResearch_i4cp2-300x156.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019CHIE_WorkAutomationResearch_i4cp2-300x156.jpg 300w, https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019CHIE_WorkAutomationResearch_i4cp2-768x399.jpg 768w, https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019CHIE_WorkAutomationResearch_i4cp2.jpg 770w" alt="Work Automation Research (2019, 4cp)" width="300" height="156" data-pagespeed-url-hash="1829386431" /> </a>

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Managing Projects with Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams for L&D 6

Digital &amp; AI

Project Management

collaborative learning

jesse.james

richard.rykhus

virtual teams

Upskilling MS-Teams

Are you prepared for the future? Organizations need us, HR and L&amp;D, to help enable new ways of collaborating that engage, streamline, and keep people connected. We can make this happen with a focus on the critical team and individual practices and leveraging the right tools, which we may already have at our fingertips.

During this series of six one-hour interactive sessions, we will learn together. Both the challenges and best practices for leading a remote/hybrid team while increasing collaboration using MS Teams correctly:
<ul>
 	<li>Leveraging Teams for Learning</li>
 	<li>Managing Your Personal Experiences with MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Finding and managing files, chats, people, and more</li>
 	<li>Moving from Zoom/Adobe Connect/GoToMeeting to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Transitioning from MS-Outlook to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Managing projects with MS-Teams</li>
</ul>
Going back to the office will never be the same. After the pandemic, hybrid teams are now the new normal.
<ul>
 	<li>Use this as an opportunity to change your organization for the better by learning practical tips and best practices in effectively leading hybrid teams</li>
 	<li>Learn new approaches for virtual meetings using Microsoft Teams</li>
</ul>
This highly interactive session will allow you to upskill yourself while experimenting with MS-Teams for delivering online learning.

What to register for the next, one-hour session in two weeks?
Click here to open a new browser window for <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/upskilling-teams-lc-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Upskilling HR for Digital Transformation: Teams Basics for Purposeful Collaboration 5</a> so you finish registering for this session first.

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Session Focus: Driving Collaboration in Microsoft Teams
Case study: Collaborating using Tabs, Forms, Polls, OneNote in Teams

Are you prepared for the future? Organizations need us, HR and L&amp;D, to help enable new ways of collaborating that engage, streamline, and keep people connected. We can make this happen with a focus on the critical team and individual practices and leveraging the right tools, which we may already have at our fingertips.
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During this series of six one-hour interactive sessions, we will learn together. Both the challenges and best practices for leading a remote/hybrid team while increasing collaboration using MS Teams correctly:
<ul>
 	<li>Leveraging Teams for Learning</li>
 	<li>Managing Your Personal Experiences with MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Finding and managing files, chats, people, and more</li>
 	<li>Moving from Zoom/Adobe Connect/GoToMeeting to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Transitioning from MS-Outlook to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Managing projects with MS-Teams</li>
</ul>
Going back to the office will never be the same. After the pandemic, hybrid teams are now the new normal.
<ul>
 	<li>Use this as an opportunity to change your organization for the better by learning practical tips and best practices in effectively leading hybrid teams</li>
 	<li>Learn new approaches for virtual meetings using Microsoft Teams</li>
</ul>
This highly interactive session will allow you to upskill yourself while experimenting with MS-Teams for delivering online learning.

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What to register for the next, one-hour session in two weeks?
Click here to open a new browser window for <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/upskilling-teams-lc-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Upskilling HR for Digital Transformation: Teams Basics for Purposeful Collaboration 5</a> so you finish registering for this session first.

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Team Leaders

Digital

Johnson Controls

Watch Kimberly Bors share Johnson Controls insight on the next generational global workforce.

Trends with GenY for a Global Workforce

onboarding

mentoring

Millennials

multicultural

high potential

kimberly.bors

In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. It's a single page divided up into nine squares. With it, you can map out your sophisticated marketing plan and go from zero to marketing hero.

To build a learning organization as a business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Creating a marketing plan has traditionally been a difficult and time-consuming process, so it often doesn't get done.

Whether you're just starting or an experienced entrepreneur learning leader, this book is the easiest and fastest way to create a marketing plan to propel your business growth.

In this groundbreaking new book you'll discover:
<ul>
 	<li>How to get new customers, clients, or patients and how to make more profit from existing ones</li>
 	<li>Why "big business" style marketing could kill your business and strategies that work for small and medium-sized businesses</li>
 	<li>How to close sales without being pushy, needy, or obnoxious while turning the tables and having prospects begging you to take their money</li>
 	<li>A simple step-by-step process for creating your personalized marketing plan that is one page</li>
 	<li>How to annihilate competitors and make yourself the only logical choice</li>
 	<li>How to get excellent results on a small budget using the secrets of direct response marketing</li>
 	<li>How to charge high prices for your products and services and have customers thank you for it</li>
</ul>

1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, And Stand Out From The Crowd

dirk.tussing

Operations

social media marketing

marketing learning

stakeholder alignment

Thought the years we allwish we had known some of the things found in this book. It is as enlightening as it is fun. Some of the stories and insights these authors had were downright hilarious, some were amazing, and all were thought provoking

Getting Things Done: Keys to Communication, Sales and Service

Coaching

virtual presentations

sheri.jeavons

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.

We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people’s heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now when leaders are expected to do more with less.

In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman explores these two leadership styles, persuasively showing how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation.

In analyzing data from more than 150 leaders, Wiseman has identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use—even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. This revered classic has been updated with new examples of Multipliers, as well as two new chapters one on accidental Diminishers, and one on how to deal with Diminishers.

Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how.

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

leadership

Leadership

kery.mortenson

new manager

middle-manager

heather.tunison

emerging leaders

potential

productivity

frontline managers

motivation

inspiration

teamwork

excutive leadership

TalentManagement

Management

OrganizationalCulture

EmployeeDevelopment

DecisionMaking

Growth

Self-Help

terresa.bubbers

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for your work and personal life.

Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in a hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out.

In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer guides you through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

culture

keri.kersten

global

kelly.wojda

international

ann.klaus

The New York Times best-selling team leadership handbook for modern executives, managers, and organizations

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before.

For twenty years, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.

Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting every one rowing in the same direction.

Today, the lessons in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are more relevant than ever. This special anniversary edition celebrates one of the best-selling business books of all time with a new foreword from the author that reflects on its legacy and lessons.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

team-building

leadership development

employee engagement

accountability

organizational development

organizational culture

Conflict Resolution

Team Dynamics

jim.orheim

Trust Building

laura.sandera

High-Performance Teams

Management Skills

catherine.hebel

Is it possible to grab an audience’s attention in this noisy, confusing world? According to Steven Woodruff, the solution can be summed up in clarity.

Clarity-fueled communication is using the fewest words to make the most significant impact. The Point unveils how the overloaded human brain wants information packaged and how to craft brain-friendly messages that break through the noise.

Steven Woodruff’s Clarity Fuel Formula is the universal recipe for communication success, from email to sales pitch workshops to resumes. The Point includes four simple actions and eight compelling shortcuts that anyone can use to get to the point and get others on the same page.

The Point: How to Win with Clarity-Fueled Communications

corinne@innovatingresults.com

Empathy

influence

messaging

clarity

simplicity

marketing

writing

presentations

persuasion

Collaborating using Tabs, Forms, Polls, OneNote: Microsoft Teams for L&D

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