Launching a Company AI Adoption Program? Training Isn’t the Solution

The problem with your company’s AI adoption program?

It might be because you’re looking at it like it’s a training solution.

It isn’t.

As the whole AI thing continues to gain traction, I’m starting to see more encouraging signs (for me, at least) of organizational momentum towards AI adoption: teams launching AI literacy programs, rolling out prompt-writing sessions, even testing role-play and other role-based skills training use cases.

My take, though, on why your program might still fail?

It’ll because you’re treating your AI adoption initiative like a one-and-done training event.

And while that kind of training might help with initial exposure, it won’t be enough to sustain adoption across the enterprise for the long haul.

A small group of energetic trainers and early adopters won’t be enough.

Without structure, reinforcement, and visibility across teams, these things have a way of stalling.

Yeah, you might get some early excitement, a few scattered wins… then a slow fade to the plateau of disengagement.

To make it stick for the long haul, you’ll need to lead it like the transformation it actually is.

That means managing it as a change initiative, not just a training initiative. 👇