Are you keen to understand your organisation's relationship with AI? This combined tool will help you capture your team or organisation’s AI skills and levels of confidence, as well as pinpoint exactly where different individuals or teams stand on artificial intelligence. These activities will help you identify who's curious and eager to learn, who's already experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for bids or Canva AI for images, and who might be feeling hesitant or concerned, perhaps about privacy or reputational risks.
What is it good for?
- Use it to uncover where your team stands on AI – from the keen experimenters to those with concerns — and how confident they feel using AI. It can also help you to identify potential AI champions in your organisation and figure out how to best support everyone on their AI journey.
When to use it
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How to use them
- First, create a survey to share with your colleagues, using the ‘TEMPLATE: AI survey questions’ document. Feel free to make a copy and edit or add to it; these are just a starter for ten, the questions should make sense within your organisation’s structure, processes and tools. This survey will give you a good understanding of the skills and opinions you have internally regarding AI, but also where there may be concerns and opportunities to upskill the team.
- Share this with your team and encourage people to fill it in. You may need to think about how to motivate your colleagues to complete this: consider how will this information impact the organisation, your beneficiaries, and them personally? Which will motivate them the most?
- Next, make a copy of the ‘Mapping your AI Culture Grid’ slide deck to your Google Drive to start personalising it, or download it as a PowerPoint to edit locally.
Using information from your AI survey and any conversations or sessions you may have had with your colleagues about AI, start to map each individual or team onto the grid: are they curious, experimenting already, or concerned about AI use in your organisation?
The 'Notes' column is perfect for adding specifics, like 'rewriting bids with ChatGPT' for curious fundraisers or 'wary of reputational risk' for senior leadership.
Once you have this map, you can use it to do a number of things to move your organisation forward with AI:
- Suggest opportunities and tactics to support your colleagues to upskill with AI skills
- Invite colleagues to join an AI working group - it’s particularly important to share the load as you continue to explore AI in your organisation
- Address important concerns from colleagues and ensure they feel supported and heard
- Organise taster sessions to discuss and demo new tools and ways of working, as well as organise meetings to collaboratively figure out more strategic AI topics, such as the ethics of AI, using AI safely within your organisation, and how AI can support your organisation’s mission.
The next activity is the AI Mission Knowledge Board, which can help you lead or facilitate conversations about AI and how it can support your mission.