AI for Managers

Artificial intelligence is here to stay. 91% of managers see it as an opportunity for themselves in their leadership role (IMPACT by A.T. Kearney, 2024), but 43% also see the possibility of disruption for leadership.

AI is therefore both an opportunity and a risk. It offers the opportunity to replace essential activities with AI and fundamentally change the role of leadership for employees. So get to grips with AI now and make the most of the opportunities.

The advantage of AI training for managers is that you can try out this technology in a playful way, just like in a laboratory. Guided by an experienced trainer, you can explore the potential of AI and apply it to your day-to-day management work. No prerequisites are necessary. Your participation in the training opens up new opportunities and strengthens the future viability of your role in the company.

The AI training improves managers’ decision making by using AI to help them analyze a problem, develop solutions and make suggestions for implementation. AI models have been trained with huge amounts of data – more than a human brain could ever process. The potential of AI is therefore to recognize patterns and generate suggestions for you in a fraction of a second. This pattern recognition is already being used in various disciplines today, for example in medical diagnostics.

AI will have a massive impact on the management of employees. Managers (and their teams) will have to analyze problems, develop solutions and implement them. The available data can often only be used to a limited extent, making predictions difficult. Many decisions that are still made by humans today can be made better and faster by AI. Used sensibly, teams can become more autonomous – but must accept AI as a new “team player”. And managers themselves will find that their own role will change. Overall, AI as a tool will become the new partner in all teams within an organization.

Ethics play a very important role in the context of AI training. AI intelligence recognizes patterns and develops modelled suggestions. However, it does not give yes/no answers, but works with probabilities. It is still up to the manager to make the decision. Ethical conflicts are increasingly occurring in borderline areas, for example when AI could violate important employee rights or compromise the privacy of users.

Other ethical issues lie in the area of training data. AI recognizes patterns based on this training data – the decisive factor is which training data is made available to the AI and how bias is excluded (e.g. when handling applicant data or testing new services). Managers need to develop sensitivity when dealing with AI, but also know the legal framework.

All types of companies can benefit from AI training. There are already several hundred AI models available today that employees in companies can already use. Others are being developed for specific applications, industries or processes and are being deeply integrated into existing environments (e.g. Microsoft Office or ERP systems). In our AI seminar for managers, you will discover undreamt-of possibilities for how AI can already provide you with valuable services today.

At best, every employee in a management role. Artificial intelligence is new to everyone, so we do not impose any restrictions on our part. The mix of first line managers, middle and senior executives in particular often creates an interesting dynamic and a fruitful exchange.

Each training or program is developed to meet the specific requirements of your company. This begins with a co-creation, concept phase, iterative improvements and a roll-out. We don’t do anything “off the shelf”, but immerse ourselves deeply in your culture and structure. In this way, our work becomes part of your organizational development.

Admittedly, this is a challenge. How do you combine universal New Leadership principles and new leadership skills with very specific, strategic topics such as digitalization, AI or sustainability?

And how do you adapt this to your company? We master this through our community of trainers from different disciplines, who are integrated into the development process from the outset and “speak the same language”. This means we cover a diverse range of topics, but work together with the same spirit.

All of the trainers in our community have their own leadership experience, have all completed in-depth external coaching and/or trainer education and have also taken part in our internal train-the-trainer programs.