🎤AI Role Play aka your practice partner use cases

I don’t think I’ve shared this before, but I’ve been playing with a use case that turned out to be far more powerful than I expected, which is using AI for role play in learning and practice.

This actually came up in one of our Weekly AMA Calls back in December. We were talking about how this could be used to practice difficult or high-stakes conversations. Things like negotiations, conversations with a manager, employees or colleagues and other scenarios.

Here are a few concrete examples, hopefully they inspire you to try if you haven't already:

Practicing difficult conversations and negotiations

For example, giving feedback to an employee, negotiating compensation, or preparing for a challenging conversation with a manager or client.

You feed the AI context about the situation, the people involved, and what you are trying to achieve. Then you ask it to roleplay the other person. You respond out loud, pause, ask questions, and try different approaches. You can ask it for feedback on where you have gaps in your arguments or where are your blind spots and help you to practice that.

The biggest value here is not only the AI’s answers, even thought they can give some good insights. The value is in you practicing clarity, tone, boundaries, and confidence before the real conversation happens. I don't remember how is it called, but I know its backed by neuroscience too :)

Easiest set up: NotebookLM or Projects in ChatGPT or Claude with voice mode.

Interview and job preparation with real context

A very practical setup is for job interviews. You go into NotebookLM, find/upload information about the company, the job description, and your CV. Then you use the audio mode and ask it to act as the interviewer.

It feels much closer to a real rehearsal than reading interview questions on a website. You are training your thinking and communication, ability to respond from different angles. Boom, the job is yours ;)

Pitches and presentations

I remember listening to a podcast where a startup CEO was close to being pushed out by the board. The relationship had become tense, and communication was breaking down, it was a mess.

What they did was feed past board meeting notes and minutes into a ChatGPT Project. They created profiles for each board member, their background, what they cared about, what they reacted strongly to, and what they tended to push back on.

Then they practiced their presentation inside that setup, adjusting language, framing, and emphasis depending on that role played profiles.

As a result, this helped them reduce friction and rebuild trust and basically get back on track. CEO became more aware, prepared, and intentional in how he communicated with the board and it worked!

Same set up: NotebookLM or Projects in ChatGPT or Claude with voice mode.

4. Teaching and explaining complex concepts

Have AI play a student at different knowledge levels (complete beginner, intermediate, skeptic). Practice explaining your expertise in different ways. This is gold for you if you are a course creator, coach, or anyone who needs to make complex topics from your zone of genius accessible to people.

5. Personal boundary setting and saying no (my personal favorite! 🤩)

Practice declining requests, setting work boundaries, or having uncomfortable personal conversations (with friends, family, clients who want discounts, etc.). Especially useful for people-pleasers who need to rehearse saying no with confidence and kindness.

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