---
id: "action-train-employees-to-build"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ What Separates Leaders from Laggards"]
tags: ["training", "empowerment"]
related: ["concept-thought-doer", "entity-ramp"]
action: "Train employees during onboarding to build and iterate on their own AI tools."
outcome: "Cultivates 'thought-doers' who can operationalize their own strategic reasoning at scale."
speakers: ["Jen Stave", "Ryan Kurt", "John Winsor"]
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-new-27-teach-ai-your-decisions"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/teach-your-ai-how-you-make-decisions"
sourceTitle: "Teach Your AI How You Make Decisions"
---
# Train employees to build their own AI tools

**Action:** Train employees during onboarding to build and iterate on their own AI tools.

Follow the model of companies like [[entity-ramp-d27|Ramp]] by providing employees with access to enterprise AI tools ([[entity-chatgpt-enterprise|ChatGPT Enterprise]], [[entity-notion|Notion]], [[entity-perplexity-d27|Perplexity]]) and training them during onboarding to build and iterate on their own AI workflows, rather than acting as button pushers on IT-built systems.

**Outcome:** Cultivates [[concept-thought-doer|thought-doers]] who can operationalize their own strategic reasoning at scale.

Implements shift #3 of [[framework-structural-shifts-judgment]]; supports [[claim-collapse-of-strategy-operations-divide]].