E136 - Themes: Growing Experience for the Future

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When I deliver training, two topics come up more frequently than any other - hybrid working and the impact of AI.  

This thematic episode was prompted by a very recent conversation I had with a former senior banker and a group of training participants on a course.  

We were exploring the challenge of how to grow the experience of the future workforce. given the impact that remote working has on team dynamics, and the consequent follow on loss of experience historically gained through observing others and informal conversations etc.  

This whole issue is potentially significantly impacted by the growth in AI capabilities, especially if those capabilities allow organisations to start reducing junior staff headcount so that their jobs can be automated.  

Regardless of some of the current rhetoric suggesting that AI will augment rather than replace workers, it seems inevitable that, from a commercial standpoint, if companies can enhance their bottom line and remove HR related challenges by automating some functions in their business, then they will do exactly that.

In many ways, this short episode poses more questions than answers, but I really hope it gets you thinking, regardless of where you currently sit in the seniority chain.  Do please let me have your comments and thoughts, and don't forget to subscribe and follow on your preferred platform.