Digital Mindset:

The 30% Rule

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What comes to mind when you hear the term “digital mindset"?

How do you personally stay curious about digital trends without being overwhelmed by them?

Choose one or more questions below and journal your response:

1. What does the 30% rule spark for you?
2. In what ways could applying the 30% rule change how you prioritize your own learning and development as a leader?
3. Where in your organization, team, or work do you see the most potential for applying the 30% rule?
4. What excites you most about the 30% rule? What worries you the most?

Identify Your Challenge

Identify a current challenge you’re facing related to AI, a digital mindset, or your digital learning edge.

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Describe your challenge and identify the type of support you would like to receive from the group.

Peer Advisory

Free Form

1. Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
2. Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
3. Group and presenter discuss the challenge providing support, affirmation, ideas, resources, etc.

Peer Advisory

Wise Crowds

1. Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
2. Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
3. Presenter turns off their camera and prepares to listen and take notes.
4. Group discusses the challenge by sharing impressions, thoughts, ideas, wonderings aloud with each other.
5. Presenter turns camera back on and shares what they found most useful in listening to the wisdom of the group.

Peer Advisory

Note Takers

• Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
• Each person asks one clarifying question in the chat about the challenge.
• Presenter selects 1-3 questions and responds to them verbally.
• All members turn off their cameras and write a response to the presenters challenge, including the presenter.
• Members share a 1-sentence summary of their response in the chat.
• Presenter selects 1-2 members to discuss with further and the rest of the group listens and takes notes.

Peer Advisory

Wicked Questions

1. Presenter shares a wicked question they are facing where both sides of the tension are true.
2. Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
3. Group explores the tension by discussing how to navigate the tension rather than solve it.
4. Presenter shares back one insight or leadership shift they’re taking away from this discussion.

Peer Advisory

Different Angles

1. Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
2. Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
3. Each member chooses or is assigned an angle, including the presenter, and reflects silently on the challenge from their angle.
4. Group shares their response to the challenge from their angle providing support, affirmation, ideas, resources, etc.

Peer Advisory

Powerful Questions

• Presenter shares their challenge.
• Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
• Everyone journals for 1-2 minutes, identifying a number of powerful questions the presenter could ask themself about their challenge.
• Members take turns sharing on of their powerful question with the presenter, explaining why they think it’s a powerful question.
• Presenter chooses 1-2 powerful questions that the group supplied and shares their response to the question(s).

Group Discussion

1. What role should curiosity and experimentation play in executive decision-making around AI?
2. What is one area that you want to learn more about as it relates to AI? What’s the first step you can take to work towards this goal?
3. What are the risks of aiming for 30% fluency, and what are the risks of trying to push beyond it as an executive?
4. What examples from your past leadership experience illustrate how partial knowledge was enough to drive strong decisions?
5. What is one AI topic or skill that you recently learned that you can share with the group? How has learning that topic or skill impacted you, your work, or your organization?

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The Current | UC Santa Barbara

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