How many people are sharing confidential data with shadow AI tools?
Do your users understand the risks and how to use AI safely?
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Worth Reading – The Real Cost of Poor Leadership in Workplaces
When good talent does leave, as the article mentions, they often cite the need to get away from their manager. However, bad managers don’t exist in a vacuum. They are created in a poor culture, which comes straight from the top.
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Worth Reading – Most managers can’t participate in training because they don’t have time, study shows
When you don’t provide management training, or have it available but never give the new manager time to attend, what do you think happens to their performance as a manager? Again, you’ve undermined them. You’ve put them in a position to fail.
Why would you do that?
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Quick Thought – Prompting is Written Communication
Perhaps this is another compelling reason to provide management and communication training to all employees, as we’ll soon be managing our AI tools. Knowing how to communicate clearly would make a massive difference in creating that “relationship” at work.
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Worth Reading – No surprise that Phishing Training Doesn’t Work!
Every employee is probably learning about AI because their job demands it, learning new features after new features of the tools they use to do their job, learning new systems that get rolled out every year, and dealing with technological change at a ridiculous pace.
Then, we make them responsible for learning how to stay secure and deal with all of the hack attempts that may come their way, too.
It’s all too much. Most of your users aren’t going to put in that kind of effort, and a yearly reminder about data security isn’t going to help them keep up with the variety of risks that are out there. It might not be worth the money you spend on it.
