Most AI conversations focus on using a tool for a single task. This interactive lab focuses on something more lasting: designing an AI collaboration agent that can support your work beyond the session.

Participants will walk through a simple process to define the role and personality of their AI collaborator, provide the right context, and test it on a real workplace challenge. By the end of the session, attendees will leave with a configured AI collaboration agent they can continue using and refining in their day to day work.

No technical background or coding is required. If you can describe your role and a challenge you are trying to solve, you can begin designing an AI collaboration partner.

Key Takeaways

• Design a personalized AI collaboration agent aligned to individual roles, priorities, and working styles
• Apply key design decisions such as personality, context, collaboration style, and guardrails to shape how an AI agent supports decision making
• Test an AI collaboration agent on a real workplace challenge and leave with a reusable configuration rather than a single output
• Understand the difference between AI as a task executor and AI as a thinking partner and why this distinction matters for Total Rewards work

Session Pairing

This lab complements the session “How a Comp Guy Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI,” which introduces the broader framework for designing an AI collaboration partner. This session focuses on building and applying those ideas in a hands on setting.