WEBVTT 00:00:01.284 --> 00:00:02.708 Hello, habit Mechanics. 00:00:02.708 --> 00:00:03.830 It's Dr John Finn here. 00:00:03.830 --> 00:00:10.000 I hope you're having I hope you can hear those birds singing behind me. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:12.608 I hope you're having a great week so far. 00:00:12.608 --> 00:00:17.000 So I'm walking to work, so I thought I'd do a quick pod. 00:00:17.562 --> 00:00:29.030 Now what I want to talk about is human AI teams, so that is, teams made up of humans and machines. 00:00:29.030 --> 00:00:37.871 It's not humans being replaced by machines, it's humans being supported by machines. 00:00:37.871 --> 00:00:52.212 Just in the same way that the Industrial Revolution supported manual labour, we now have machines that can support cognitive labour. 00:00:52.212 --> 00:01:02.780 And this is what I see is emerging People who are getting success from AI technologies, and some are. 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:17.834 If you just look at some of the testimonies we we're getting from the people we're working with, they are getting seismic advantages or the other people that are not either using AI technologies or or getting the most out of them. 00:01:17.834 --> 00:01:33.236 And what's actually happening here is that the people and the businesses that are getting success, they're not just buying a tool or an AI bot or an AI system. 00:01:33.236 --> 00:01:47.468 They are actually creating human AI teams and again, it's for the individual as well, so you can create your own human AI team. 00:01:47.468 --> 00:01:51.143 So I have my own human AI team. 00:01:51.143 --> 00:01:54.831 I use AI technologies daily and they're like team members. 00:01:54.831 --> 00:02:12.614 They can do the tasks that I would otherwise pay humans to do, but they help me to do things more efficiently and effectively in a way that helps me to grow my business and help others to do well and create growth. 00:02:12.614 --> 00:02:23.468 So these machines they are not a threat, they are not a competitor. 00:02:23.468 --> 00:02:37.742 They are a team member, and the way that we harness the power of human AI teams is through human AI performance psychology the new field of psychology we've created and we are pioneering now. 00:02:39.591 --> 00:03:06.951 I've not heard anyone else talk about it in these terms, but I think this is the way forwards and the foundations of my professional career began in elite sport and predominantly team sports, and I was very fortunate to be able to work with a professional football team, and I was 24 years old, I was working on the first team staff. 00:03:06.951 --> 00:03:21.526 I was in there making, contributing to selection decisions and everything else that goes on when you're part of that senior group, or the leadership group, if you like. 00:03:21.526 --> 00:03:54.515 So I was in a position where, beyond my years and I was really lucky and part of that, part of the interesting thing with one of those teams, a football team I worked for is we won the league title, won the league one title, english professional football by spending, if my memory's right, 54% less on player wages than the teams that came second and third, you know, on average. 00:03:54.515 --> 00:04:14.151 So we were able to essentially get much more out of our talent pool and that really and it was actually a UK record for the that season we broke the UK record for the least amount of money spent for the most amount of league points gained. 00:04:14.151 --> 00:04:29.810 That was one of their big four do like a quite an in-depth analysis of of football in the UK and that's what the numbers that emerged were. 00:04:29.810 --> 00:04:40.934 So we were really doing something special as a team and I just got fascinated by that and I thought what is going on here, how are we able to do this? 00:04:40.934 --> 00:04:49.603 And that sparked my PhD work, just looking at one aspect of that, which was how we were a developing talent. 00:04:49.603 --> 00:05:00.029 But it also led to the development of our leadership models, a spark of the development for that and our team models, our team power model. 00:05:00.029 --> 00:05:11.139 So I've been thinking about teams for a long time in my professional life and you know, going backwards from that, I've been part of sports teams since I can remember. 00:05:11.139 --> 00:05:25.362 You know whether it was playing football in the park or, you know, playing rugby or cricket or football or for different teams, and then you know through to university, et cetera. 00:05:25.362 --> 00:05:51.802 So, and I played decent level amateur sport and I play decent level amateur sport, so I really have a deep knowledge of teams and what makes them work, and I think that this is the right approach to take. 00:05:51.822 --> 00:05:58.194 With AI, it's a human AI team and the AI is a team member and it can help you to do your job more effectively. 00:05:58.194 --> 00:06:05.338 And again, we can do this at the individual level, so you can have your own team. 00:06:05.338 --> 00:06:18.721 And if you go you know, if you go backwards people have in history and even right now, although AI is disrupting this a little bit people have been hiring virtual assistants now for maybe 10 years. 00:06:18.721 --> 00:06:26.059 So it's the same kind of thing that AI can do a lot of what virtual assistants used to do and that frees up the virtual assistants to do something else. 00:06:26.059 --> 00:06:35.740 But you can do it at the individual level, so you can have your own human AI team and you can get seismic results, like we're seeing. 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:39.620 But also at work, you can build. 00:06:39.620 --> 00:06:46.281 The priority should be to build human AI teams and if you look at the data on organisations. 00:06:46.281 --> 00:07:03.175 The last big set of data I saw on this was by, I think, the Boston Research Group, and they cited in their research that about 74% of businesses that are spending significant money on AI, they're not getting any real returns. 00:07:03.175 --> 00:07:11.725 And again, if you dig down into it, it's because humans and AI are not collaborating well. 00:07:11.725 --> 00:07:17.547 It's because humans and I are not collaborating well. 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:28.439 Now, that's always been a problem in digital transformation, where someone says you buy this digital system and it's going to revolutionise your business and invariably it doesn't work out quite like that. 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.574 Businesses, you know, sometimes get there eventually. 00:07:31.574 --> 00:07:32.754 It doesn't work out quite like that. 00:07:32.754 --> 00:07:33.776 Businesses sometimes get there eventually. 00:07:33.776 --> 00:07:37.824 Just, the PC took a long time to get to become effectively used in organisations, for example. 00:07:37.824 --> 00:07:40.791 But I think AI is different. 00:07:40.791 --> 00:07:41.935 It isn't just. 00:07:41.935 --> 00:07:48.088 It isn't just a digital tool, it's like a team member. 00:07:48.975 --> 00:08:08.435 So I also think we need to move away from talking about digital transformation and start talking about team transformation and, of course, the currency of team transformation is human high performance, psychology and the thing that underpins that is brain state management. 00:08:08.435 --> 00:08:34.865 So I think to unlock the benefits or to scale the benefits of ai because many people are unlocking the benefits and you're forming a human AI team and it helps you to move faster. 00:08:34.865 --> 00:08:44.860 If we use our snowmobile metaphor, it's like you're on the snowmobile, the tech is your snowmobile the AI and it's helping you to move faster up the mountain towards your goals. 00:08:44.860 --> 00:09:03.568 And I think that's going to be a really helpful starting point to just start creating a better narrative around ourselves and the journeys that we're going on, but also about what the AI tools can actually bring to our lives. 00:09:03.568 --> 00:09:08.735 That we're seeing in our own lives, but also our customers lives. 00:09:09.537 --> 00:09:11.722 But the key is brain state management. 00:09:11.722 --> 00:09:12.785 We can't get away from that. 00:09:12.785 --> 00:09:15.543 That is the thing that's going to unlock all of this. 00:09:15.543 --> 00:09:20.431 So I hope that was interesting. 00:09:20.431 --> 00:09:21.455 It got you thinking. 00:09:21.455 --> 00:09:25.443 My mind's racing with ideas around this now. 00:09:25.443 --> 00:09:30.500 I think it's really exciting. 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:39.115 So you know, maybe as a quick exercise, just start thinking about your little team that you've got just for yourself. 00:09:39.115 --> 00:09:44.715 You know, even if you've got like a new iPhone, for example, that's just it's not a passive device anymore. 00:09:44.715 --> 00:09:53.543 It's got generative ai built into it, for example, and other uh ai features. 00:09:53.543 --> 00:10:06.405 So these things are becoming like team members, these technologies, and just have a list and maybe think about some of the other tasks that you do every day you may not like doing. 00:10:06.405 --> 00:10:17.501 Is there a another ai you can employ to help you to do that task more efficiently and effectively, so that you don't have to do the work that you don't want to do? 00:10:17.501 --> 00:10:30.297 You can focus on the work that makes you happy, and if you're interested in the happiness equation, you can check out chapter seven of train your brain for the higher revolution. 00:10:30.297 --> 00:10:33.062 So enough from it, from me. 00:10:33.062 --> 00:10:40.177 Enjoy the rest of your day and remember you're only ever one brain state habit away.