KNOWLEDGE · HUMANSMATTER
Knowledge on AI, leadership and agile collaboration
Terms, topics and common challenges when AI enters everyday work and leadership and collaboration change. Explained briefly, with sources and a focus on practice.
IN SHORT
HumansMatter Knowledge explains terms and topics around AI in organizations, leadership and collaboration. Each page answers one specific question for leaders, teams and HR. The content comes from our work in training, coaching and consulting and is the responsibility of Alexander Keller and Nadine Köhler.
- Every page opens with the answer in a few sentences
- Figures and claims are backed by sources
- Examples come from everyday work in organizations
CHALLENGES
AI topics and common challenges from your everyday work
Not looking for a term but facing a specific problem? Here you will find typical situations from organizations and where to read on.
- Knowledge
- Article
- Workshop
- Keynote
- Coaching & consulting
“My team barely uses the new AI tools.”
It is rarely the technology. Usually people lack clarity about their own role, time to experiment or a reason that counts in their daily work.
- Why your team isn't using the new AI
- Three forms of resistance to AI
- Workshop: AI Literacy for teams
“Colleagues use ChatGPT privately, and nobody knows what happens to the data.”
That is shadow AI. Bans rarely help. What helps are approved tools, clear rules and training.
- Shadow AI: Why your team uses AI in secret
- Workshop: AI Literacy for teams
- AI strategy consultation
“AI texts look good but cost more time than they save.”
When results are passed on unchecked, someone else ends up doing the rework. There is a name for it: workslop.
- Workslop: When AI texts slow your team down
- Keynote: The Workslop Trap
“I am supposed to lead a project, but I have no formal authority.”
Then you are leading laterally. That can be learned: through understanding, trust and shared goals instead of instructions.
“Our hierarchy no longer fits the way we work.”
Teams increasingly organize themselves, but the reporting line stays. It helps to tell the forms of leadership apart.
- What is agile leadership?
- What is disciplinary leadership?
- Agile leadership: Managing the system
“I don't know how AI is changing my role as a leader.”
When AI takes over routine work, leadership becomes a question of orientation, judgment and relationships. That is worth clarifying on purpose.
TOPIC AREA
Leadership and collaboration
How leadership works when hierarchies flatten and teams collaborate across departments. From disciplinary leadership to lateral and agile leadership.
- What is lateral leadership?
- What is agile leadership?
- What is disciplinary leadership?
COMMON QUESTIONS
What people want to know about these topics
Each question leads to the page where it is answered in detail.
- What is the difference between lateral and disciplinary leadership?
- How do you lead without formal authority?
- What makes an agile leader different?
- Why don't employees use AI tools?
- What is shadow AI?
- What is workslop?
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