Lead classes or community events
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 13 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Training and Teaching Others (4.A.4.b.3) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 13 occupations that perform it.
- Plan, organize, or lead group activities for customers, such as exercise routines, athletic events, or arts and crafts.
- Conduct chemical dependency program orientation sessions.
- Teach classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning.
- Provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.
- Coordinate or direct employee workshops, courses, or training about mental health issues.
- Educate clients or community members about mental or physical illness, abuse, medication, or available community resources.
- Teach classes or otherwise disseminate medical or dental health information to school groups, community groups, or targeted families or individuals, in a manner consistent with cultural norms.
- Prepare and deliver sermons or other talks.
- Develop or direct study courses or religious education programs within congregations.
- Present subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, supervised role-playing methods, or by reading aloud.
- Provide communication instruction to dialect speakers or students with limited English proficiency.
- Instruct individuals or groups in the use of art media, such as paint, clay, or yarn.
- Plan and conduct orientation programs and group conferences to promote the adjustment of individuals to new life experiences, such as starting college.
- Organize and lead regular religious services.
- Plan or conduct conferences dealing with the interpretation of religious ideas or convictions.
- Administer religious rites or ordinances.
- Conduct special ceremonies, such as weddings, funerals, or confirmations.
- Plan or lead religious education programs.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing. The reporting and paperwork around management run on whatever you already use for documents, and the part that is actually managing people does not automate at any price.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Enterprise platforms
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
13 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Art Therapists
- Clergy
- Community Health Workers
- Directors, Religious Activities and Education
- Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
- Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
- Mental Health Counselors
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Teach academic or vocational subjects”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.