AI Anxiety at Work: The Conversation Most Leaders Are Avoiding

Fewer than one in five employees say their manager has actually talked to them about AI and how it affects their job. Your team's silence about AI isn't because they don't care, it's because most leaders don't feel confident enough to bring it up. That silence is being read as confirmation of their worst fears.

In this episode, Shayla Wey breaks down the real cost of avoiding the AI conversation with your team: not sudden resignations, but quiet disengagement... your best people updating their resumes, showing up without bringing their full thinking, wondering if this is a business worth staying in. She also flips the lens back on leaders themselves: if your team is anxious about AI, there's a good chance you are too, and a leader who's quietly avoiding their own relationship with AI can't credibly lead a team through theirs.

Shayla walks through exactly what to say; starting with naming the uncertainty honestly instead of pretending to have it figured out, and how to turn a one-time conversation into an ongoing rhythm your team can trust. The businesses that win the AI shift won't have the best tools. They'll have the most honest leaders.

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