The New Team Meeting: Humans and AI

I was reading a McKinsey report recently that asked a blunt question: Are you actually ready to lead a team of people and AI?

It sounds like a sci-fi movie, but for most B2B businesses, this is the new reality. The "routine" stuff of supervision and data entry is being automated. That is great news, right? It frees you up to be a leader. But as direct control disappears, accountability gets a lot harder.

If you are serious about growing revenue, you cannot just "manage" technology. You have to lead the impact it creates. Here is how we are coaching our clients to handle the hybrid shift:

1. Stop Being a Supervisor, Start Being an Orchestrator

If your day is spent checking if people (or AI) did their tasks, you are already behind. AI doesn't need a manager; it needs an Orchestrator. Your job is to look at the workflows and ensure the machine is humming so the humans can do the heavy lifting.

2. Double Down on Psychometrics

When you have fewer humans in the mix, your relationship with the ones who remain is everything. You need to understand how your team ticks at a deep level. We use ReachLX to get that insight in a week rather than six months. If you don't know if your "Advisor" is feeling sidelined by AI, you are going to lose your best talent.

3. Have the Courage to Own the Outcomes

It is incredibly easy to blame the software when a project fails. "The AI was biased" or “it all sounds the same” is the new version of "The dog ate my homework". Leaders have courageous conversations to get to the root cause and don’t allow the blame game to get established in their team.

4. Use Your Taringas (Ears)

AI can give you a dashboard, but it cannot give you the "vibe" of the office. You need to listen to what is NOT being said. Is your team burnt out from trying to keep up with the automation?. Use your Taringas to sense the energy because flat energy kills growth every single time.

The Bottom Line

AI is the Megaphone, but you are still the Voice. If your leadership foundation is shaky, technology will just broadcast your failures louder.

Its time to start worrying about whether you are a leader worth following into the future with a team of humans and AI.