Perspectives: Your Managers Think They’re Ready – Their Teams Know They’re Not

October 14, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET

What AI-assisted leadership is costing your organization (and what to do instead)

Feedback is one prompt away. So are development plans, difficult-conversation scripts, and performance reviews. Managers have never had more tools to sound prepared – and employees have never been more aware of the difference between being understood and being processed.

PI’s AI and People Leadership Report found that three in four managers have used public AI to prepare for a people conversation, while 74% of executives say their managers are very confident handling these moments alone. That gap is where trust breaks down, disengagement builds, and preventable turnover starts.

In this Perspectives session, Matt Poepsel, PhD and our panel examine what organizations owe their managers – and what managers owe their people – in an era when sounding ready is easier than ever and actually being ready still isn’t.

Attend this webinar to:

• Identify the gap between what executives believe about their managers’ readiness and what employees are actually experiencing.
• Distinguish between AI that makes managers sound prepared and tools that help them understand the specific person they’re leading.
• Equip your managers with a framework for people conversations that goes beyond a generated script.
• Measure the organizational cost of management that processes people rather than understands them – in retention, engagement, and performance terms.
• Build a manager development approach that treats human awareness as the capability AI cannot replace.

Credits

Bonus for our live attendees… tune in for 1 HRCI and 1 SHRM credit!

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