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Your team is anxious about AI automation. How can you address their concerns effectively?

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Muhammad Ghulam Jillani

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Robert Lienhard

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As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the workplace, it's natural for teams to feel anxious. To address these concerns effectively:

- Educate on AI benefits. Highlight how AI can take over mundane tasks, freeing up time for creative and strategic work.

- Foster an upskilling culture. Encourage learning new skills that work alongside AI, ensuring team members feel valued and future-proof.

- Promote open dialogue. Create a space for employees to voice concerns and ask questions, fostering a sense of involvement in the transition process.

How do you help your team navigate the advent of AI? Share your strategies.

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Muhammad Ghulam Jillani

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As a Data Scientist and ML Engineer, I understand the anxiety around AI automation. Hereâ€™s how I help my team navigate it: 1. Highlight AIâ€™s Role as an Enabler: I show how AI assists in reducing repetitive work, enabling the team to focus on complex problem-solving and innovation. 2. Encourage Skill Development: I promote learning new tools and techniques related to AI, such as data analytics or Python, to complement their existing skills. 3. Transparent Communication: I hold regular discussions to address concerns, share project impacts, and involve the team in AI strategy, ensuring everyone feels part of the transformation.

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Aman Kumar

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Acknowledge their concerns by emphasizing that AI is a tool to enhance, not replace, their roles. Reassure them that AI will handle repetitive tasks, freeing them to focus on creative, strategic work. Offer training and development opportunities to build their skills alongside AI, and highlight the long-term benefits, such as improved efficiency and job satisfaction. Maintain open communication to address questions as the transition progresses.

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Robert Lienhard

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Acknowledge Fears and Highlight Opportunities! Recognizing your team's worries about AI automation is the first step in addressing their worries. Make time to listen to their fears about job security, shifting responsibilities, or unfamiliar technology. By showing empathy for their emotions, you build trust and create an environment where they feel safe to express their worries. After knowing what they're worried about, focus on showing how AI automation can help. Explain how automation will handle repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on more creative, strategic work. Offering training and upskilling opportunities will also help them feel more prepared for the transition, ensuring they see AI as a tool for growth rather than a threat.

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Saida Haji

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Be creative Leader with transparency in AI roadmap to have clear understanding on how AI will be integrated in to the telecom workflowsðŸ’¡ Organize Innovation hackatons where team can collaborate on AI driven projects to have a sense of involvement in AI transformation. ðŸŽ¯ Let Talent strategy team work a bit in hosting workshops to help employees understand how their roles will be evolved in AI world, to focus on how automation might change day to day tasks ðŸª Create AI leadership roles to that they can show how AI ISN'T REMOVE THE JOBS BUT CREATING NEW-MORE INNOVATIVE OPPORTUNITIES. ðŸŽ³ Involve team in AI strategy dev process, that they have voice in AI piloting. ðŸ—£ Highlight success stories,show examples from other telecom companies âœ¨ï¸

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duhitha shailesh

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It's important to highlight that AI is meant to enhance their roles, not replace them, and show examples of how automation can reduce mundane tasks, allowing them to focus on higher-value work. Offering training and upskilling opportunities also helps to empower the team, showing that they will grow alongside AI advancements. Reassuring them that their expertise remains crucial for interpreting AI insights is key to reducing anxiety and fostering collaboration.

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