As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put it, AI isn’t here to replace your job, but the person who uses AI might.

The lesson? To be an effective professional in today’s workplace, you should be using AI to amplify your impact.

At Relate, we agree and believe that in a world where AI is everywhere, human credibility can be your competitive edge.

In this article, we’ll explore how AI can strengthen human skills, what an AI meeting analyst and communication coach is, how it works, and why it’s becoming a must-have AI tool for modern professionals and enterprise teams who are looking to AI to help them improve their performance.

Our belief: AI isn’t here to replace the skills that make us human but rather can be used to strengthen them.

That means using AI to measure and elevate behaviors like empathy, curiosity, reliability, and the ability to build trust through conversation. These are the capabilities that define high-performing professionals and strong leaders but traditionally they’ve been hard to see, measure, or improve at scale. With AI, that changes.

At a recent She Shapes AI event in London, Kathryn Vickers (Lead Service Designer for the Civil Service) and Hannah Beresford (AI UX Researcher at Boston Consulting Group) led a session on designing tech for human empowerment. They explored a powerful framework for working with AI: Protect. Augment. Automate.

Here’s how we apply that lens at Relate:

• Protect the inherently human tasks that require emotional nuance – building relationships.
• Augment your ability to communicate effectively with behavioral insights. Tools like Relate can identify the signals that build or erode trust in your meetings and deliver real-time coaching to help you improve. Whether it's listening more actively, following through reliably, or showing more curiosity, AI can help sharpen these skills by offering specific, actionable feedback after every interaction.
• Automate routine and repetitive tasks like transcription, note-taking, and action item extraction so you can focus on the human side of communication.

By understanding what to protect, augment, and automate, you ensure that AI works with you, not instead of you by enhancing our strengths while freeing us from the busywork.

It’s not just about job loss, people also worry about the thought of constant monitoring or being critiqued by AI.

Relate’s AI coach, Sandi, isn’t watching over your shoulder, it’s helping you improve. It brings perspective to a space that’s long been ruled by perception.

Today, most feedback in organizations is perception-based and infrequent. That leads to unconscious bias, vague coaching, underrecognized employees, and overlooked talent. With Relate, feedback is behavioral, consistent, and focused on what truly matters. Sandi offers perspective grounded in data, not an opinion or perception. Because the antidote to unconscious bias is objectivity.

You can’t improve what you can’t see. AI helps you see it and while it can’t replace your instincts, it can certainly help sharpen them.

Sandi doesn’t grade your personality. It coaches your behaviors. For example:

• If you interrupt frequently, Sandi will gently nudge you to listen longer.
• If you're unclear in follow-ups, it may flag reliability gaps.
• If you show strong empathy or curiosity, Sandi will reinforce those strengths.

Over time, users report higher self-awareness, better connection with stakeholders, and more effective meetings. It’s like having a coach with you every day but for a fraction of the cost.

Unlike traditional coaching, Sandi is with you at every meeting and motivates you to turn improving your skills into a daily habit. This makes it easy to:

• Build consistent habits
• Receive just-in-time feedback
• Track progress over time

Here’s a checklist to determine if you need an AI coach:

• You lead or join 5+ meetings per week
• You struggle to give/receive regular feedback
• You want to track soft skill growth
• You value communication, but can’t measure it yet
• You want to improve the outcome of your meetings
• You want to elevate your team culture
• You want to create an internal benchmark for communication

Unlike a sales coach who joins one call a quarter, Sandi is with you every day. That consistency helps reinforce what matters. It gives you micro-feedback that compounds over time. You don’t need to change who you are, you just need to keep showing up with the intention to grow.

For leaders, Sandi provides a window into team dynamics that’s never been available before. Instead of relying on lagging metrics or gut instinct, leaders can:

• Coach more effectively
• Close the feedback loop
• Improve team-wide communication

And for C-level executives, it narrows the gap between the frontline and strategy with actionable, behavioral data.

According to Gallup, employees who strongly agree they receive valuable feedback are 5x more likely to be engaged. (Source: Gallup)

People who use AI to communicate better will rise faster than those who just use it to save time. If you’re choosing to embrace AI instead of avoiding it, you won’t be replaced but rather situated as an invaluable employee. And, by using AI to sharpen your communication skills, deepen emotional intelligence, and surface actionable insights, you’ll lead more impactful meetings, build stronger relationships, and make better decisions.

Microsoft + LinkedIn’s 2024 Work Trend Index finds that 66% of leaders prefer hiring candidates with AI skills, even if less experienced. Mastering AI usage boosts career prospects. (Source: MarketWatch)

We believe AI has the power to democratize growth. The professionals who thrive in the AI era won’t be the ones who resist it, they’ll be the ones who know how to partner with it.

It can help young professionals gain confidence, remote teams stay connected, and leaders coach with data, not just gut instinct. And it bridges the gap between perception and reality, giving everyone a clearer view of how trust is built in their business.

Your ability to communicate, relate, and build trust is your biggest differentiator. Relate helps you improve those skills continuously, without changing who you are and makes you the valued professional who is using AI to grow.

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