Let’s be candid for a minute: leadership isn’t always tidy or straightforward. New leaders can feel a little unsteady in their roles and need a little extra support. Experienced leaders can be caught off-guard by employee challenges, business obstacles, or even emergency situations.
In those moments, many leaders might want to have a personal coach to help clarify and guide them through challenges. But great executive coaches have schedules, too, and they might not always be free when a leader needs them.
The solution? Stewy, your leadership development partner.
Stewy is the new artificial intelligence (AI) coach from Stewart Leadership. Trained on 45 years of proprietary material from the experts at Stewart Leadership, Stewy is available 24/7/365 to help guide leaders through the challenges of managing a team without breaking the leadership development budget. Here are ten ideas for things you can do with an AI Coach.
Here are 10 prompts you can use with Our AI CoACH Stewy
1. What is the best leadership style for me and my team?
Finding the right style of leadership for you and your team doesn’t have to be entirely a matter of trial and error. Stewy is well-acquainted with the Stewart Leadership LEAD NOW! Model. Using Stewy’s prompts and guidance, you can find some strategies and style tips that will help you better lead your team to deliver results.
2. How do I build trust with my team?
Trust is foundational to human relationships, but it can often be difficult to build when leaders are new or in circumstances where trust has been damaged. Stewy can guide you through your particular challenges to find strategies that will help build a solid foundation of trust.
3. What are the best practices for decision-making?
One of the keys to good leadership presence is strong decision-making ability. However, learning to make good decisions can be tough, especially when those decisions directly impact co-workers or direct reports. Stewy can walk leaders through a clear process for good decision-making, even if the decisions are unpopular.
4. How can I balance short-term and long-term goals?
It can be tough to manage the balance between what teams must do in the short term and the organization’s overall long-term goals. Stewy offers guidance for prioritizing and integrating the immediate with the future to help leaders deliver results every step of the way.
5. Please write a meeting agenda that includes these items.
Whether your meeting is a weekly team meeting, a special project meeting, or a team off-site, Stewy can help! Just put in a few parameters, and Stewy will get you started. From the general outline provided, you can adjust as necessary until your agenda meets the needs of your team.
6. How do I write a good performance review?
Performance reviews can be nerve-wracking for both the reviewer and the reviewee. With templates and guidance from Stewy, you can write a fair, balanced, and constructive review that helps your direct report and your team meet its goals.
7. How do I deal with an employee who is not performing?
One of the most difficult conversations leaders must face is a coaching conversation with an underperforming employee. Stewy can guide you through this and other similar challenges with practical advice and strategies that approach the situation with compassion and kindness.
8. How do I influence my boss?
Leaders—especially new leaders—can spend a lot of time thinking about how to manage the people who report to them and not as much thinking about managing up. Stewy can coach you through building a relationship with your boss that benefits both of you—and the organization.
9. Write an email that I can use to communicate a new change.
Not everyone is a writer, and communicating change often requires careful attention to language that some leaders may struggle with. With Stewy’s templates and prompts, you can create draft communications that you can refine as necessary to meet your team or organizational needs.
10. Write a training plan or a project plan.
Approaching a brand-new plan from scratch could be intimidating. How can you be sure you meet all the needs of all stakeholders? How can you be sure you covered every detail? Stewy’s templates and prompts can get you started and help you refine your plans until you have something that delivers expected results.
With Stewy, you get decades of expertise available 24/7/365. And when Stewy is customized to your organization, you can be assured that the management guidance you receive from Stewy is aligned with your company’s procedures, goals, and vision.
Stewy isn’t a total replacement for personal, one-on-one human coaching; rather, it’s an additional tool to enhance the coaching offered by Stewart Leadership. Because it’s affordable, it allows companies to expand leadership development to a wider range of leaders and potential leaders, and its accessibility means that leaders can ask questions on their schedules.
Ready to try out Stewy? Contact us to learn more about beta testing, customization, and pricing, and start growing leaders across your organization.
Self-check:
- What is one question or prompt I could ask an AI coach?
- Is there one way an AI coach could potentially save me time or streamline my tasks?
- Am I willing to try an AI coach? Why or why not?
