As AI becomes increasingly capable of generating answers, content, analysis and recommendations, organisations are being forced to ask a deeper question: if information is no longer scarce, what is?

In this week’s ASP Trends feature, Kerry Jones from Identity Ignite explores the changing face of coaching and facilitation, and what businesses can learn from this shift.

The article highlights six important trends shaping the future of human development: moving from information to better thinking, from managing change to building adaptability, from training to transformation, from skills gaps to identity gaps, from content delivery to creating the right conditions for thinking, and from human versus AI to human × AI.

At the heart of Kerry’s message is a powerful insight: knowing and doing are not the same thing.

A business owner may know what the next step is, but still hesitate. A manager may know they should delegate, but struggle to let go. A talented employee may have the ability to lead, but not yet see themselves as someone who belongs in the leadership conversation.

In many cases, the barrier is not more information. It may be a thinking gap, a belief gap or an identity gap.

This is where coaching and facilitation become increasingly relevant. Not simply as tools for advice or training, but as ways to create meaningful conversations, challenge assumptions, build human capability and help people move from insight into action.

For businesses navigating AI, change and uncertainty, the future is not about choosing between people and technology. It is about strengthening the human capabilities that technology cannot replace: judgement, curiosity, connection, creativity, meaning-making, adaptability and courageous action.

Kerry leaves organisations with an important question to take into their next team meeting, strategy session or development conversation:

If AI can increasingly tell us what to do, how are we developing the human capacity to decide what we should do — and the courage to actually do it?

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