Again, one aspect of the coming AI agentic era I’ll be exploring is, which parts of knowledge are shifting to machines and which will remain distinctly human.
As I said last week, AI increasingly gets to handle how humans do things, while we get to direct attention toward why anything gets done.
Today’s post is about the how that AI gets to handle.
I asked Claude AI for ways I can use it to improve how I do things.
Here’s part of what it said:
Adaptive Learning — Ask me to tailor explanations to your current knowledge level, then progressively deepen them. Say things like “explain this as if I’m a beginner, then build up.”
Change Management Plans — Describe your organization, the change, and the stakeholders, and ask me to draft, critique, or simulate a full change management plan — including resistance scenarios and mitigation strategies.
Finding Solutions for Well-Defined Problems — Give me the constraints clearly and ask for structured solution options with trade-offs.
Logical Reasoning — Walk me through an argument and ask me to identify logical fallacies, weak premises, or gaps. Or give me a complex scenario and ask for a step-by-step reasoning breakdown.
Monitoring Change Processes — Ask me to help design KPIs, progress check-in templates, or feedback surveys. You can also describe what you’re observing and ask me to help interpret signals and suggest course corrections.
Project Management — Use me to draft project charters, break work into tasks, anticipate risks, write status updates, or create stakeholder communication plans — just describe the project and what you need.
I then asked Claude to tell me more on monitoring change processes.
Here’s part of what it said:
Designing Your Monitoring Framework
Before the change rolls out, I can help you build the infrastructure for tracking it:
- Define success metrics — Describe your change initiative and I’ll help you identify leading indicators (early signals) and lagging indicators (outcome measures) so you’re not just measuring what’s easy, but what’s meaningful.
- Build a monitoring dashboard template — Tell me your stakeholders and I’ll help you design a reporting structure that shows the right data to the right people at the right cadence.
- Create baseline documents — I can help you capture the “before” state so you have a genuine benchmark to compare against later.
- Design check-in rhythms — I can help you decide what to review weekly vs. monthly vs. quarterly, and draft the agenda templates for each.
Tracking Adoption and Resistance
- Adoption scorecards — Share what you’re observing in the field and I’ll help you turn qualitative notes into structured assessments of where adoption is strong, lagging, or stalling.
- Resistance pattern analysis — Describe the pushback you’re encountering and I’ll help you categorize it (rational, emotional, political) and suggest targeted responses for each type.
- Pulse survey design — I can write short, targeted survey questions to gauge employee sentiment, understanding, and behavioral change at key milestones.
Interpreting What You’re Seeing
One of the most valuable things I can do is help you make sense of messy, real-world signals:
- Data interpretation — Share your metrics, anecdotes, or survey results and ask me “what story does this tell?” or “what should concern me here?”
- Distinguish noise from signal — I can help you think through whether a dip or spike in a metric reflects a real trend or a one-time anomaly.
- Identify blind spots — Ask me “what am I probably not measuring that could matter?” to stress-test your monitoring approach.
- Stakeholder feedback synthesis — Paste raw feedback from multiple sources and I’ll help you identify themes, contradictions, and priority issues.
Course Correction and Decision Support
- Scenario analysis — Describe what you’re observing and ask “if this trend continues, what are the likely outcomes?” I can help you think through consequences before they materialize.
- Escalation decisions — Talk through a concern with me and I’ll help you decide whether it warrants escalation, intervention, or watchful waiting — and how to frame it either way.
- Adjustment planning — If your data shows the change is off track, I can help you draft a corrective action plan, including how to communicate the adjustment to stakeholders without eroding trust.
Reporting and Communication
- Progress reports — Give me your raw data and key updates and I’ll help you craft crisp, audience-appropriate status reports for executives, teams, or sponsors.
- Lessons learned documentation — At any milestone, I can help you run a structured retrospective and capture insights in a format that’s actually useful for future initiatives.
- Visualizing change journeys — Describe your timeline and I can help you map where you are against a change curve to give leadership a narrative frame for the data.
A Practical Prompt to Get Started
Try this: “I’m managing a [type of change] in a [type of organization]. Here’s what I’m currently observing: [your notes]. Help me identify what’s going well, what’s at risk, and what I should be measuring that I’m probably not.”