AI Positioning Session
Connect your experience to a practical direction and one small project.
Use this guide to structure a discussion, then record your answers in the editable template or printable PDF. Use synthetic or authorized information. A named person owns each decision.
1. Find a problem you understand
Start with your experience and access to real work. A leadership role is a contribution you can demonstrate, not a personality label.
- Experience
- What work do you understand well enough to notice failures and judge a useful result?
- Evidence of contribution
- What have you already improved, built, explained, or coordinated?
- Direction
- Which contribution fits: Navigator, Builder, Practitioner, or Amplifier?
- Small project
- What can you complete with approved tools and synthetic information?
See a completed companion example
- Experience
- An HR operations specialist understands recurring policy questions and service handoffs.
- Evidence of contribution
- Standardized escalation guidance and trained analysts on policy lookup.
- Direction
- Practitioner and Amplifier initially; grow Builder capability through a bounded prototype.
- Small project
- Create a synthetic policy-question set and evaluate cited draft answers.
2. Turn the direction into a learning experiment
Use a short project to test your interest and build evidence. Keep your next move reversible.
- Skill to practice
- What specific capability does the project require?
- Support and access
- Who can review the work, and what can you use?
- Evidence to show
- What will demonstrate learning rather than attendance?
- Next review
- When will you decide whether to continue or change direction?
See a completed companion example
- Skill to practice
- Define expected answers, inspect source support, and log exceptions.
- Support and access
- Policy specialist reviews synthetic cases; approved AI tool only.
- Evidence to show
- Ten annotated cases, a failure example, and a revised workflow brief.
- Next review
- After two weeks, review the artifacts with a trusted colleague.
Use this self-contained prompt
Paste the prompt below into your preferred assistant. Answer with generalized or synthetic information; do not paste confidential work material.
- Prompt
- Copy the complete text below.
Copy this positioning prompt
- Prompt
Act as a practical AI work-positioning partner. Ask one question at a time. Help me identify: (1) work I understand deeply; (2) evidence of my current contribution; (3) a useful direction as Navigator, Builder, Practitioner, or Amplifier; (4) one small project using approved tools and synthetic or authorized information; (5) the skill to practice, review partner, and evidence to produce in two weeks. Treat these roles as complementary contributions, not fixed personality types. Do not invent my experience or promise a career outcome. End with a short project brief and a next review decision.
Record the next decision.
What will you do next, who owns it, and when will you review the evidence? Keep unresolved assumptions visible.