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AI Accelerated Learining & Education: Micro Coaching and It's Role in Mastering AI in Business
By Darby Rollins · Published June 20, 2023 · 280 views on YouTube
Key takeaways
- Micro coaching delivers skill-building in bite-sized, personalized sessions instead of one large course, so learners aren't overwhelmed and can implement one step before moving to the next.
- Because coaching happens in real time rather than through pre-recorded material, participants get current, up-to-date guidance as AI tools and techniques keep changing.
- The AI Author ran its micro coaching approach through impro.ai, an app built for habit- and behavior-based coaching, over a 10-week pilot with about 10 coaches before opening it to students.
AI Accelerated Learning & Education: How Micro Coaching Can Help You Master AI in Business
Artificial intelligence is transforming business. To keep up, adopting AI requires mastering complex skills and concepts quickly and effectively. Micro coaching has emerged as a targeted learning approach that can help you or your team build AI capabilities and drive results.
What is Micro Coaching?
Micro coaching delivers skill-building and development in bite-sized chunks. Instead of lengthy courses or manuals, micro coaching provides short, highly-focused sessions tailored to your goals. Some key advantages:
- Improved retention and faster learning: Micro lessons reduce overload so you grasp concepts rapidly. Research shows our brains retain more in shorter, focused bursts.
- Personalized content: Generic courses don’t cut it. Micro coaching customizes sessions to your skills, needs and objectives.
- Real-time flexibility: Micro coaching continuously adapts to cover the latest AI advances as they emerge.
- Continuous improvement: Iterative micro lessons allow you to constantly expand and refine skills over time.
Getting Started with Micro Coaching
Most learners want to build new skills as efficiently as possible. That’s where micro coaching shines. It delivers targeted updates, how-to’s, and training in compact sessions to accelerate development.
For example, a retail business could work with a micro coach to build custom AI models for forecasting. The coach would deliver focused lessons on collecting data, training models, backtesting, and implementation.
These brief, adaptable sessions ensure you absorb what you need to know. Trying to master complex AI concepts through lengthy courses is ineffective. Micro coaching’s bite-sized delivery helps avoid information overload.
Achieving AI Mastery with Micro Coaching
Micro coaching makes attaining real AI mastery possible at your own pace. The scalable, personalized sessions allow you to gradually implement concepts into your role.
Your coach will continuously update the content to reflect the latest AI advances and innovations. This ensures your skills evolve automatically alongside the technology itself.
You can also refine focus areas over time and receive feedback. Micro coaching is never static. It provides an iterative loop for continuous improvement relevant to your changing needs.
Customized Sessions Accelerate Learning
One-on-one micro coaching delivers customized sessions tailored to your background, strengths, weaknesses, and objectives. This personalization accelerates skill-building by keeping each lesson relevant to you.
For technical teams, micro coaching could involve small coding tutorials and demos. For leadership, it may focus more on AI implementation strategies and best practices. The possibilities are endless.
In fast-changing fields like AI, tailored micro coaching keeps your learning on track. Training can adapt to new developments so you always have the latest skills needed to drive impact.
Conclusion
Micro coaching represents the future of effective, efficient learning - especially for AI. Its personalized and adaptable nature makes mastering complex skills achievable on your schedule.
If you’re ready to accelerate your AI capabilities, explore how micro coaching can unlock growth. With the right approach, developing the AI skills you need for business success is within reach. Email us at hey@theaiauthor.com to connect with our team to discuss how we can help you reach your goals through AI-powered, human driven micro-coaching.
Full video transcript
Darby opens the live webinar with Kelly Tenny to discuss micro coaching and its role in mastering AI in business, welcoming attendees and previewing updates on what the AI Author has planned for the next three to six months.
Kelly introduces micro coaching as a targeted approach to learning that delivers skill-building in bite-sized chunks. As an educator, she explains that giving people too much information at once causes overwhelm: they freeze, can’t process the material, and therefore can’t implement it. She frames micro coaching as a direct answer to that problem, and explains why AI specifically is a strong fit for the approach.
She walks through the efficiency case for micro coaching, citing brain research showing that smaller, more targeted learning sessions help people retain knowledge with greater speed and accuracy than long-form content. She shares her own experience being micro coached, saying it has made her personally more productive because she can complete a three-minute task rather than block out an hour to learn something.
Kelly then covers personalization, contrasting micro coaching with generic courses and webinars that leave participants to figure out on their own how the material applies to their specific situation. Because micro coaching is delivered one-on-one, a coach can tailor training to each student’s business, audience, and goals, even if multiple students are all nominally learning “how to use AI.”
She discusses real-time assistance and adaptability, noting that because AI evolves so quickly, pre-recorded courses risk going out of date, while live micro coaching stays current with the latest developments and tools. She also covers flexibility (participants can redirect their learning path mid-program as their needs shift) and continuous improvement, describing the iterative, step-by-step structure that ensures a participant masters one step before advancing to the next, rather than being handed an entire process at once and struggling silently with a weak step.
Kelly closes her portion by summarizing micro coaching’s value around efficiency and retention, personalization, agility, and continuous improvement, framing it as a shift in how e-learning and skill mastery will work going forward, especially for AI.
Darby then shares an update on what the AI Author has been building. Over roughly the past 10 weeks, the team worked with impro.ai, a platform and app built specifically for training people to build habits and adjust behaviors. About 10 internal coaches, including Darby and Kelly, went through the coaching methodology themselves as part of the process of designing the program, before opening a small pilot cohort of paid student spots working one-on-one with Kelly for 90 days. Darby notes the AI Author had already run an earlier 10-week phase that drew around 200 applicants, and this session marks the second official opening for a new round of students.
Darby describes the target audience broadly: an executive who needs to grasp AI theory well enough to teach their team, or a marketing manager who needs to apply specific AI tools and processes, are both examples of who the program is built for. He frames the underlying belief as: what holds people back usually isn’t one giant obstacle, but small, unaddressed daily habits and biases, and micro coaching is designed to compress the time it takes to identify and adjust those behaviors.
The session moves into audience Q&A. One attendee asks how the program is structured day to day. Kelly explains that it starts with a kickoff call to set 90-day goals, followed by asynchronous back-and-forth inside the impro app: the coach assigns one step, the participant completes it and reports back, and the coach moves them to the next step, rather than scheduling recurring calls. She positions this as more workable for busy participants than fitting in another weekly call.
Kelly closes by describing the opportunity as well-suited to anyone who feels overwhelmed by the volume of AI content available and unsure who to trust, emphasizing that participants get support from someone with real AI expertise and sound ethics around its use. Darby wraps up by inviting viewers to apply via a link in the chat for one of the remaining pilot spots, reiterates that this is an early, intentionally small cohort before a wider rollout, and thanks attendees for joining the live call and recording.