Team leadership and artificial intelligence

Making leadership more efficient with AI

Artificial intelligence can help you as a manager to use your most valuable resource even more efficiently: Your time. AI tools and systems relieve you of time-consuming, repetitive tasks. This allows you to focus even more on your most important to-dos and use the time for change management in the course of digitalization or for the introduction of AI into company processes. AI will not relieve you of management tasks. However, as in other areas, it has the potential to make your daily work and the work of your team more efficient and faster.
 

Important skills for AI-supported leadership

If you want to implement artificial intelligence in your teams, you will not be met with enthusiasm everywhere. Too often, the introduction of AI is associated with the loss of human labor. An important part of your work with AI therefore consists of clearly identifying the opportunities and challenges of AI tools. This requires communication skills and empathy. It doesn't help to simply brush away concerns by pointing to time savings. Instead, you need to be able to understand your employees' objections and empathize with their fears in order to find the right arguments in favour of AI. 

Due to the rapid development of AI scenarios, it is important that you as a manager are open to new technologies and new things in general. You should also have the flexibility to be able to react quickly to current trends or new opportunities. In your role as a manager, you are a role model and multiplier in one. It is up to you how effectively you use AI and how much acceptance there is for new technologies in the team.
 

Familiarize yourself with the technology

Artificial intelligence is an extension of your digital possibilities. Many of them have yet to be discovered. In your leadership role, it is important that you familiarize yourself with the technology and the associated opportunities and risks and that you approach it with an open mind. In a second step, you should ensure that your team has a similar level of experience. This will allow you to explore together how you can make the best possible use of artificial intelligence.
 

Leading with AI - leadership of the future

Team leadership with AI is very likely to become standard in the future. We are already using many tools based on AI today without even realizing it. From searching in search engines to planning routes by car. AI-supported management will not consist of the machine taking over all management tasks. Rather, there will be a scenario in which AI becomes an important team member that is assigned certain tasks that it can complete faster and with fewer errors than humans. With this training from the Haufe Akademie , you are already taking an important step towards a future in which managers and employees form a powerful team together with AI.