Building AI into Development – Not Bolting it On
With AI everywhere right now, we’re excited to explore meaningful, human-centred ways to augment it into transformational leadership, teams & cultural journeys. One of our senior associates and Client Success Director, Kate Woodward, has been on a personal journey to do just that.
Spurred on by our very own AI guru Mark Holson, she’s been exploring how she can leverage AI to supercharge her own personal development, one to one coaching sessions, and team development.
The results?
Well let’s just say she is well and truly drinking the cool aid!
Here she shares how she’s been using ChatGPT in surprising and powerful ways.
Personal Development: From Self-Awareness to Action
Self awareness is the nirvana of personal development, and I’m all for exploring myself from all angles using multiple assessments; core strengths, personality, motivation, mood, and vertical development in particular, but synthesising them in to an actionable plan can be very challenging and very time consuming. This is where ChatGPT steps in, I asked my new best friend to combine the data in my Insights Discovery profile and Motivational Map – two powerful tools that highlight my personality traits and intrinsic drivers, and produce a personalised summary and development action plan.
The output was simply incredible! clear, concise, deeply relevant and delivered to me in less than a minute
The blend of my personality preferences and my intrinsic motivators was captured succinctly and accurately under helpful, pre-selected headings, such as core strengths, watch-out’s and blind spots, and preferred leadership style.
Was it revolutionary and did it tell me things I didn’t already know?
No, but what it did do was so much of the heavy lifting in terms of blending the nuances of my personality profile with my intrinsic motivators, resulting in a greater depth of understanding, which not only helps me with my self awareness but others awareness of me!
Effective Teaming: AI in ongoing team development
Seeing the impact at an individual level, we decided to scale this approach to our team development process. Each person received their own ChatGPT generated summary based on their Insights Discovery and Motivational Map data. We then shared key themes in our recent quarterly strategy meeting.
As an organisation we are passionate about walking our talk, which means that we use the language of profiling tools to continually and consistently engage in one of the fundamental pillars of ‘teaming’. Teaming, the verb, as opposed to the noun, is a term popularised by Professor Amy Edmondson. In her book; Teaming (which is well worth a read by the way) she describes Teaming as ‘teamwork on the fly’, ‘a dynamic and flexible way of working that allows individuals to collaborate quickly and effectively’. One of the central pillars of teaming is ‘a focus on continuous improvement and adaptability’. Finding new, innovative ways to explore and share personal data that fuels the continuous improvement of the team is child’s play with the help of AI.
Coaching Over Time: Tracking Progress with a Personal AI Assistant
Personal development is a journey and real, sustained growth happens over time. It’s easy to forget or overlook how far you’ve come! To support a recent coaching session I used ChatGPT to support a client in her personal development journey by comparing two Insights Discovery profiles, one from 2023 and one from 2025
My prompt “please (I always say please) analyse these two profiles and generate a reflection summary with a development plan”
ChatGPT obediently and efficiently, like my new, incredibly fast personal assistant delivered a detailed comparison, highlighting shifts in traits and working style. pinpointing areas of growth, emerging strengths and lingering challenges, as well as providing a personalised strategy for continued development.
The result?
“Kate and the FPG team helped me truly grasp the power of AI in analyzing my Insights Report. It’s more than just a time-saver—it provides structure and clarity, uncovering trends and patterns I might have missed as someone who isn’t an Insights expert. AI has become an essential part of our daily work, and the summary Kate provided allowed me to absorb meaningful, actionable insights in just seconds, helping me make smarter, more informed decisions. It also helps reduce bias and streamline the entire process. A big thank you to FPG for showing me how AI can transform the way we interpret complex personality reports and drive real impact!
(Giulia Valentino, Group People Experience Partner Global Blue)
I’m old enough to remember producing acetate slides for presentations, and calling a switchboard to get through to a colleague – and now we can’t imagine simple tasks being quite so arduous. As human beings, we are designed to evolve, we’ve been doing it for 1000’s of years, and this is just another evolution
If you’re keen to explore how you can build AI into your development plans? We’re happy to share how we’ve been experimenting – just get in touch.
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