I cannot emphasize this enough: people do not just “know” about the work you do. You have to connect with them and show them.
Also, if you’re a manager, you should highlight the work your people do and connect them with people inside and outside the organization. If connection is key to success, don’t you want your team to succeed?
That’s exactly why IG professionals have been telling us to clean up our data. Too many people didn’t, and as mentioned in the link above, every AI meeting ends up being about governance.
We did our future selves a disservice by ignoring these questions for years, and now we have to either pay the piper or increase the risk exponentially by letting AI loose on this data.
What governance conversations are you having now thanks to AI?
There’s that word, trust, again. Your employees aren’t going to talk to you about their mental health; they are not going to use your employee assistance program, and they’re not going to ask for the things that might help them be successful at work because they don’t trust you.
This is the same company that has been accused of serving beauty ads to young women after it detected that they had deleted a selfie from their phones, and also of selling that to advertisers as a business model.
The same company that refuses to take down obviously dangerous and false information in the interest of “free speech absolutism” wants us to believe that it will protect people from online harassment now when it’s content created with their glasses specifically to stalk and harass them?
Sorry, Adam, you don’t get that kind of benefit of the doubt.
Far too many managers are promoted, but still doing their old job. They’re really just team leads but expected to act as managers without the resources to do so. When you’re in a situation where you’re drowning like that, talent development is the last thing on your mind, and in the case of more than half of the workers surveyed, it shows.
Honestly, the first time I saw an ad for Granola, I immediately thought, “This seems illegal and is going to get someone in a lot of trouble”: