Is AI giving your team energy or draining it?


Hi Reader!

12 months ago, everybody was asking the same questions: How can I make my team use AI? How do I scale AI adoption? How can more people in my organization try AI?

Now they're asking different questions.

Teams are using AI here and there. Personal tools, corporate tools. Everybody is probing and testing. Company-wide adoption isn't the question anymore. The question is: how do we make sense of AI?

When AI does part of the job, it changes the way we work in three ways.

The first is doing more of the same. We can produce more content, write more code, create more. More of the same thing we’ve been doing our whole career.

The second is having more time. Time to rest, to recharge, to reflect. That’s invaluable. So many teams and leaders are exhausted and burned out because we keep running. But I guess this one is not a very popular option in companies.

The third is changing the way we work. The result might be the same: the same training course, the same feature. But what we as humans are doing to get there is totally different.

I'll give you two examples.

The first is a team of instructional designers. They used to create content. Now AI helps them do that, and their role has shifted toward consulting and partnering with their organization. You can learn more about it in my interview with Greta Stahl on my Built by People Leaders podcast .

The second is a senior developer who used to write code. Now agents write it, and their job is to audit, evaluate and edit what AI has created.

The result of their work is the same. What's different is the energy they bring and the impact they create on the broader organization.

For some people, this change is energizing and exciting. For others, it's draining and exhausting.

On October 8th, I’m hosting a workshop on how AI is redefining job roles.

We’ll look at it through the GC Index®, the world’s first organimetric. It measures energy for impact: what energizes people and how they create impact in an organization. So you can see whether the changes AI brings are giving your people energy, or draining it.

This is a hands-on, 60-minute session for HR, People and L&D leaders, and for team leaders.

Before you join, take 10 minutes to complete the GC Index® questionnaire. Your answers will build a live, anonymized team profile that we'll explore together during the session.

Up to 30 participants can get their own personal GC Index® report at no cost (normally $300). I'll explain how to qualify at the end of the session.

Hope to see you there and talk to you next Thursday

Daria


P.S. If this issue got you thinking about how your team works together, my book CLICKING goes deeper into what makes teams work. The Kindle version is still on sale. Grab your copy here.

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