WEBVTT 00:00:21.213 --> 00:00:22.637 Hello, habit Mechanics. 00:00:22.637 --> 00:00:23.760 It's Dr John Finn here. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.929 I hope you're having I hope you can hear those birds singing behind me. 00:00:29.929 --> 00:00:32.539 I hope you're having a great week so far. 00:00:32.539 --> 00:00:36.929 So I'm walking to work, so I thought I'd do a quick pod. 00:00:37.492 --> 00:00:48.960 Now what I want to talk about is human AI teams, so that is, teams made up of humans and machines. 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:57.801 It's not humans being replaced by machines, it's humans being supported by machines. 00:00:57.801 --> 00:01:12.141 Just in the same way that the Industrial Revolution supported manual labour, we now have machines that can support cognitive labour. 00:01:12.141 --> 00:01:22.710 And this is what I see is emerging People who are getting success from AI technologies, and some are. 00:01:22.710 --> 00:01:37.764 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. 00:01:37.764 --> 00:01:53.167 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. 00:01:53.167 --> 00:02:07.397 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. 00:02:07.397 --> 00:02:11.073 So I have my own human AI team. 00:02:11.073 --> 00:02:14.760 I use AI technologies daily and they're like team members. 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:32.544 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. 00:02:32.544 --> 00:02:43.399 So these machines they are not a threat, they are not a competitor. 00:02:43.399 --> 00:02:57.673 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. 00:02:59.521 --> 00:03:26.882 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. 00:03:26.882 --> 00:03:41.456 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. 00:03:41.456 --> 00:04:14.445 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. 00:04:14.445 --> 00:04:34.081 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. 00:04:34.081 --> 00:04:49.740 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. 00:04:49.740 --> 00:05:00.864 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? 00:05:00.864 --> 00:05:09.533 And that sparked my PhD work, just looking at one aspect of that, which was how we were a developing talent. 00:05:09.533 --> 00:05:19.959 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. 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:31.069 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. 00:05:31.069 --> 00:05:45.292 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. 00:05:45.292 --> 00:06:11.733 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. 00:06:11.752 --> 00:06:18.125 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. 00:06:18.125 --> 00:06:25.268 And again, we can do this at the individual level, so you can have your own team. 00:06:25.268 --> 00:06:38.651 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. 00:06:38.651 --> 00:06:45.989 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. 00:06:45.989 --> 00:06:55.670 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. 00:06:55.670 --> 00:06:59.550 But also at work, you can build. 00:06:59.550 --> 00:07:06.211 The priority should be to build human AI teams and if you look at the data on organisations. 00:07:06.211 --> 00:07:23.105 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. 00:07:23.105 --> 00:07:31.655 And again, if you dig down into it, it's because humans and AI are not collaborating well. 00:07:31.655 --> 00:07:37.477 It's because humans and I are not collaborating well. 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:48.369 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. 00:07:48.369 --> 00:07:51.504 Businesses, you know, sometimes get there eventually. 00:07:51.504 --> 00:07:52.685 It doesn't work out quite like that. 00:07:52.685 --> 00:07:53.706 Businesses sometimes get there eventually. 00:07:53.706 --> 00:07:57.754 Just, the PC took a long time to get to become effectively used in organisations, for example. 00:07:57.754 --> 00:08:00.721 But I think AI is different. 00:08:00.721 --> 00:08:01.865 It isn't just. 00:08:01.865 --> 00:08:08.018 It isn't just a digital tool, it's like a team member. 00:08:08.906 --> 00:08:28.365 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. 00:08:28.365 --> 00:08:54.795 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. 00:08:54.795 --> 00:09:04.789 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. 00:09:04.789 --> 00:09:23.498 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. 00:09:23.498 --> 00:09:28.664 That we're seeing in our own lives, but also our customers lives. 00:09:29.466 --> 00:09:31.652 But the key is brain state management. 00:09:31.652 --> 00:09:32.715 We can't get away from that. 00:09:32.715 --> 00:09:35.473 That is the thing that's going to unlock all of this. 00:09:35.473 --> 00:09:40.360 So I hope that was interesting. 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:41.384 It got you thinking. 00:09:41.384 --> 00:09:45.373 My mind's racing with ideas around this now. 00:09:45.373 --> 00:09:50.429 I think it's really exciting. 00:09:50.449 --> 00:09:59.044 So you know, maybe as a quick exercise, just start thinking about your little team that you've got just for yourself. 00:09:59.044 --> 00:10:04.644 You know, even if you've got like a new iPhone, for example, that's just it's not a passive device anymore. 00:10:04.644 --> 00:10:13.473 It's got generative ai built into it, for example, and other uh ai features. 00:10:13.473 --> 00:10:26.335 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. 00:10:26.335 --> 00:10:37.431 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? 00:10:37.431 --> 00:10:50.226 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. 00:10:50.226 --> 00:10:52.991 So enough from it, from me. 00:10:52.991 --> 00:11:00.107 Enjoy the rest of your day and remember you're only ever one brain state habit away.