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Free AI adoption playbook

Move AI beyond the early adopters

Help the middle 60% of your team turn AI curiosity into better workflows.

Built from real activation programs at Lattice and Zapier, this playbook gives People leaders practical tools to make that happen: team readiness checks, a manager guide, an activation scorecard, and a 90-day plan for turning individual experiments into repeatable ways of working.

Beyond the Early Adopters: The Team-Based AI Activation Playbook

Access alone won’t change how teams work

The middle 60% is open to AI but still needs a clear reason to use it in everyday work. They need examples from people in similar roles, permission to experiment, guidance on approved tools, and dedicated time to practice. Without those conditions, usage stays concentrated among a small group of early adopters.

Why AI rollouts stall after access

20%
early adopters found their own AI tools, built workflows, and began sharing what they learned.
60%
are open to AI and often curious, but still need a clearer connection to their everyday work.
20%
remain skeptical or do not yet see how AI could help in their day-to-day work.

Make the team the unit of change

Lattice found that facilitated team workshops worked better than another library of training resources. Teams brought real work into the room, shared what they had already tried, and chose one problem to solve together. Zapier used a similar approach in its marketing build-a-thon, where live coaching and hands-on practice produced more than 60 working builds.

What you'll learn

Choose the learning formats employees will actually use

Help one team turn a shared problem into a workflow

Run a 90-day pilot and measure what changed

Turn practice into a repeatable system

The playbook helps People leaders carry that momentum into the next 90 days. It includes team and pilot readiness checks, guidance for managers, an activation scorecard, and a practical rollout plan. Lattice shows how to build confidence and fluency, while Zapier shows how to turn what teams learn into workflows they can reuse, improve, and share.

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