Building High-Performance Teams with AI as Your Sparring Partner

Joris Merks-Benjaminsen

Recording: YesLanguage: English/DutchDuration: 45 min / 15 minAvailability: Not available until the end of 2026. Dates can be requested up to one month ahead.Session rating: 3.6 out of 5 from 21 participants
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Building High-Performance Teams with AI as Your Sparring Partner
Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
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Joris Merks-Benjaminsen

Joris Merks-Benjaminsen bridges the gap between technological innovation and authentic leadership. He previously served as the Head of the Google Digital Academy and was recognized within Google as one of its highest-rated managers of all time. As the award-winning author of books including Managing Without Power, Joris has a clear mission: helping leaders find the balance between people and results. Today, he guides managers and leaders in maintaining that balance within a world that is rapidly changing due to AI. Learn more at leadingwithAI.org.

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Session Summary

Please note: This session is intended for managers and people leaders only.

Leadership is a high-stakes balancing act. You are constantly seeking the equilibrium between the human touch and hard results. To build a true High-Performance Organization, neither can be allowed to falter. But how do you maintain that focus amidst the noise of the day?

In this session, Joris Merks-Benjaminsen demonstrates how to leverage AI to strengthen your team’s foundation. Working with the ‘Five Brilliant Basics’ of high-performance teams, you will discover how AI creates structures that provide calm and clarity by supporting you across the full breadth of your role: from mundane administrative tasks and razor-sharp strategies to the most nuanced human challenges and coaching conversations.

Detailed session description

Using a selection of the 100+ prompts from his new handbook, you will learn how AI acts as your ‘Sparring Partner.’ This allows you to build an environment where performance and humanity go hand in hand. After the session, you will receive a workbook with prompts you can apply on the job to enhance your leadership.

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Questions about Building High-Performance Teams with AI as Your Sparring Partner

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Please note: This session is intended for managers and people leaders only. Leadership is a high-stakes balancing act.

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Joris, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English/Dutch. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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