When AI makes you look smarter than you are, it can create a very interesting workplace problem.

You can write a polished report, answer a complicated question, or give a sophisticated presentation with help from AI. But what happens when someone asks you a simple follow-up question and you don't really understand the answer?

Do you quickly reach for your AI app on your phone?

AI can improve your output. But there's a difference between looking knowledgeable and actually becoming more knowledgeable. Let's talk about this challenge on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.

Stop asking, "How can we do more?" It sounds like a strange thing to say in a workplace that is constantly trying to improve productivity.

But sometimes the better question is, "What can we stop doing?"

Because adding more work to an already busy team doesn't automatically create better results. Sometimes the biggest performance improvement comes from removing something that never needed to be there in the first place.

Let's talk about this common business challenge on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.

Change fatigue can start innocently in your business and end up causing serious problems. And that should worry you, before you launch your next big project or try to solve an oncoming challenge.

While you need your team to be focused, they may be checked out. Because when every few weeks brings a new priority, technology, process or strategy, employees can become skeptical about whether any of it will actually last.

Find out how leaders can keep people engaged when change itself becomes routine, on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.

The AI shortcut that makes you worse at your job may be the one that saves you the most time.

That sounds strange, especially when we're being encouraged to use AI to work faster and accomplish more.

But there's a question worth asking: What happens when AI doesn't just help you do your job, but starts doing the parts of your job that actually make you better at it?

That's what I want to explore today, on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.

The AI experiment nobody wants to talk about is the one that didn't work.

As you may have noticed, Artificial Intelligence is being tested in workplaces everywhere. Some experiments save time. Others create unexpected problems.

And sometimes, the biggest challenge isn't the technology. It's admitting that the experiment needs to change. Let's talk about this issue on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.

When it comes to how to podcast for 800 episodes, there's not a one big secret I can share. But as I celebrate this milestone, I realize some strategic decisions, that I made more than 15 years ago that have served me very well.

So let's throw out the format this week and talk about those decisions, as well as all the episodes we have enjoyed together. And a big thank you to everyone who is joining me on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.

When AI gives you the wrong answer with confidence, it's easy to believe it. The response may be polished, specific, and delivered with exactly the kind of certainty we associate with someone who knows what they're talking about.

The challenge with AI isn't always recognizing an obviously bad answer. Sometimes the real challenge is recognizing an answer that sounds completely reasonable but happens to be wrong.

And that creates an important question for leaders and professionals: How do you know when to trust the technology and when to slow down and verify it? You can trust me to answer this question on this episode of The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast.

Want more? Learn more about my new book, Get Better! Smart Business Advice From Unexpected Mentors with this link.

Motivational Keynote Speaker, Author, and Broadcaster, Ken Okel, believes in creating memorable meetings. He understands the challenge of change on the job and the need to perform at a high level, every day. He's embraced it and shares his unique career lessons and takeaways with audiences.

The 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast gives you easy to implement tips that will improve your productivity, performance, and profits. For more about Ken, clips of his live speaking presentations and workshops, plus his weekly productivity tips, visit KenOkel.com. And yes, Ken does present virtually, which sometimes makes him look a little taller.