In This Issue:

• AI privacy gets its own spotlight

• From Degrees to Skills: The Rise of Skill-Based Hiring

• Time Management in the Age of AI – corporate workshop

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AI privacy gets its own spotlight

AI’s next frontier isn’t just power — it’s privacy.

Perplexity just introduced a “Privacy Snapshot” feature that lets users see what data is stored, shared, or forgotten. It’s a quiet but significant step toward more transparent AI, where users know what happens behind the scenes.

It’s worth thinking about how transparency fits into your own work habits. Whether you’re managing data, clients, or teams, clarity earns trust.

Read more about it here. 

From Degrees to Skills: The Rise of Skill-Based Hiring

Traditional credentials are losing their exclusive value. Increasingly, organizations are shifting toward skill-based hiring—measuring what a candidate can do, rather than just what they have achieved. 

Executive takeaways:

• Re-evaluate your hiring and talent development frameworks. Are you screening for proven skills or just credentials?

• Consider internal upskilling vs external hiring—investing in your current team can yield higher ROI.

• Use Confirmed’s CRM capabilities to track talent development, certificates, skill-sets, and follow-ups—so credentials don’t sit idle.

Learn more: Skills or Degree? The Rise of Skill-Based Hiring for AI and Green Jobs – arXiv

Time Management in the Age of A.I.

A workshop program for teams that helps them create their own customized methods of optimizing their time by combining the proven popular frameworks with customizations and new techniques like AI to get fabulous gains in their success.

Learn how you can have David conduct it at your organization

This workshop grew out of a successful program first conducted for Executive MBAs at a prestigious university. It’s interactive – and from the comments we get from participants, it’s both fun and impactful:

• "Such a great session! Very interesting on all the different styles of time management. I can't wait to start.”

• "Amazing session. Totally loved it.”

• "This session is essential in life.”

• “You hit the nail on the head”

• “The time flew by — so much info. When I noticed the time, the session was almost over”

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