Security News > 2021 > September > Managing change in AI: Don't forget about your staff's needs and abilities
Consider re-skilling to meet the company's needs as well as the employees'.
How many times have you heard a manager respond to employees about organizational change with the words, "It just made sense"? To workers who are adversely impacted by the change, it might not make sense at all.
Later in my career, I was the one making these changes and communicating change to employees.
If an employee's job is significantly changed, you engage the employee early in the process of defining new work flows and you support that employee with the necessary retraining.
While our conversation was not entirely about change management, DeSimone stressed the importance of retaining and investing in employee skills training so employees could continue to evolve with the company.
Re-skilling your own workers for AI. Similar approaches need be taken to re-skill knowledge workers, business and IT employees whose jobs are changing with AI because employees need to see continuing investments in themselves at the same time that companies are continuously investing in technologies like AI. In the course of re-skilling employees, managers might find that some of the most high-potential employees are those they least expected.