On AI Fluency: 3 Power Moves to Become Indispensable When AI Comes for Your Job

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🎓 Welcome to the workforce, rising leaders and the Class of 2025.

You’re stepping into a workplace defined by rapid transformation and rising expectations.

I still remember my own start.

I began in investment banking: long hours, high pressure, zero margin for error.

I spent countless nights codifying my work, building repeatable tools, documenting every formula so I could deliver faster and think more strategically.

If I’d had AI back then, I’d have built smarter systems, asked sharper questions, and moved ten times faster, with more balance along the way.

That’s the opportunity in front of you.

Why This Matters

Most people think AI will make them faster and that’s the advantage. However, speed alone won’t make you indispensable.

Today, 60% of early-career professionals already use AI to save time. Yet only 14% feel confident using it to shape better decisions (McKinsey, 2024). That gap will define who gets ahead and who’s replaced.

Amazon and Microsoft both cut thousands of jobs this year to redeploy budgets into AI (CNBC, The Verge, 2025).

Across industries, repeatable work is disappearing. Entry-level roles are getting smaller, while expectations for future leaders keep climbing.

HBR says tomorrow’s leaders must drive digital and data intelligence while steering through constant uncertainty.

The World Economic Forum predicts nearly half of all skills will need to be refreshed within five year.

This isn’t a threat. It’s a filter.

If you use AI just to go faster, you’ll keep up. Use it to think better and lead smarter, and your value becomes non-negotiable.

So the question isn’t if AI will reshape your work. It's whether you’ll shape it first, before it shapes you.

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Your Next Moves

Here are 3 moves to keep your value unshakable, no matter how AI evolves.

1. Simulate Experience You Don’t Yet Have

Why It Matters: Experience builds judgment; AI accelerates it.

What Most People Do: Summarize, rephrase, draft emails.

What Top Performers Do: Roleplay tough conversations, test trade-offs, practice high-stakes decision-making.

Your Move:

Act as CEO. Ask, “If I were the CEO, what hidden risks would I challenge in this plan?”

2. Sharpen Strategic Thinking with AI

Why It Matters: Everyone can be fast. The edge is seeing what others miss.

What Most People Do: Accept AI’s first answer.

What Top Performers Do: Use AI to provoke, pressure-test, and reveal second-order consequences.

Your Move:

Ask, What would a skeptical executive question about this go-to-market plan. What’s my counter?

3. Build Tools, Not Just Complete Tasks

Why It Matters: Repeatable value beats one-off output — and scales your impact.

What Most People Do: Use AI for quick wins: summaries, edits, templates.

What Top Performers Do: Build custom AI workflows and dashboards that make your best thinking repeatable. Share them so your team performs at your level.

This is how top performers don’t just get faster; they raise the bar for everyone.

Your Move:

Turn your team’s top stakeholder FAQs into an internal AI tool anyone can use.

✅ Reflective Moment

If AI can do your tasks faster, what makes your thinking impossible to replace?

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Bottomline

You may be underestimated, unseen, or still waiting to be taken seriously.

That changes the moment you stop using AI as a shortcut and start using it as a strategic lens.

Speed gets you in the door. Strategic fluency keeps you in the room and shapes the room around you.

Now is the time to build judgment, deliver insight, and scale your thinking.

Smart leaders don’t wait. Your move starts now.

Joselle

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