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title: "Give your AI an onboarding, just like a new colleague"
description: "A new colleague gets an onboarding, your AI usually does not. Six questions from coaching practice to teach your assistant who you are and how you work."
language: en
source: https://coachsteff.live/en/onboard-je-ai
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# Give your AI an onboarding, just like a new colleague

In a Copilot workshop I asked the group to type one sentence: tell me what you know about me. The answers were thin. A job title, a few recent files, sometimes nothing at all. Then I showed what my own assistant has remembered about me. My way of working, what I find important, who I work for, where I want to go. The difference was not in the licence. It was in one exercise I once did: I gave my AI an onboarding.

## A capable newcomer who knows nothing

I say it often in my workshops. See AI as a highly educated but very ignorant employee. Actually read: intern. One who also thinks he knows better. Smart, fast, broadly educated, and he knows nothing about your work, your clients or your way of doing things.

You do not put a new colleague at a desk on day one with the request to just start either. You tell them what the company stands for, how you work, what counts. With AI we almost always skip that step. And then it surprises us that the answers are so general.