If AI frees up your team's time, will they bring their best thinking to the work, or wait to be told what to do?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Nancy Priest, Chief Experience Officer of Glass of Learning. An award-winning program designer with more than 20 years of building learning strategies for organizations around the world, Nancy spent part of her own career in manufacturing, and much of her firm's work today is with manufacturers. She remembers standing on a shop floor in 1987 as new equipment arrived, and she hears the same questions about AI now. In this fourth and final conversation of our Leading Humans in the Age of AI series, she lays out the three conversations leaders need to have with their people to bring AI in without losing their best thinking.

Nancy's argument is that AI raises the stakes on leadership basics many organizations were already missing, from setting expectations to talking honestly about what's changing. When leaders treat their people as partners in redesigning the work, the human side becomes what brings the technology to life.

In this conversation, you'll hear:

• Why telling people their jobs are safe can backfire when headcount cuts follow, and what happens when leaders stay quiet and rumours fill the gap
• The question Nancy suggests asking employees before deciding what AI should take on: if the mundane tasks went away, what would you do with that extra capacity?
• Why handing a tangled process to AI won't fix it, and the three questions Nancy asks first: what are we trying to accomplish, why does it matter, and how can the technology help us invest in our people?
• What happens on a plant floor when people believe they're supposed to park their brains at the door, and how leaders can shift from directing every task to partnering with the people who know the equipment best
• Why training only changes behaviour when direct managers are involved, and the simple follow-up questions Nancy gives managers to keep new skills alive after the session ends

If you're leading people through the arrival of AI and want them bringing their judgment to the work, this episode will give you the three conversations to start with and the leadership basics that help them land.

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If AI lets your team clear a week of work by lunch, who has the capacity to judge whether it's the right work?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Christy Pettit, CEO and co-founder of Pollinate Networks Inc. For more than 25 years, Christy has worked in organizational development and knowledge transfer, helping organizations build leadership capacity through structured mentoring. She developed the Knowledge Transfer Index and the matching technology behind Pollinate’s Cross-Pollinate AI™ platform, so she comes to this conversation as someone who uses AI to connect people and insists it can’t replace the relationship itself. In this third conversation of our Leading Humans in the Age of AI series, she explains why AI is sending work back up to leaders faster than they can review it, at the same moment more people are deciding the leader’s job isn’t one they want.

Christy's argument is that leadership capacity has always been stretched thin, and AI is making the strain impossible to ignore. The judgment AI can't supply is built person to person, through mentors who have walked the path and know you well enough to tell you the truth.

In this conversation, you'll hear:

• Why decades of pushing work down to empowered teams are now reversing, as AI lets people send finished work up faster than leaders can assess it
• Why so many people look at the manager's role, see someone stuck between senior leaders and a reluctant team, and opt out, and how a mentor who isn't responsible for your performance can change that picture
• The difference between hearing "good job" from Claude and hearing it from a mentor who knows what you've been through, and why that emotional tie is what makes a lesson stick for years
• Christy's case for keeping AI out of your relationships: use it to build the plan, then own the work by reading it and thinking through how it will land with people
• What makes an organization ready for mentoring, and why mentors often learn as much as the people they guide once they put their tacit knowledge into words

If you lead people who are moving faster with AI than you can keep up with, this conversation will show you where your judgment matters most and how mentoring can grow the next leaders who will share that load.

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If your team believes AI can think, why would they keep doing the thinking themselves?

In this episode of the What Juices You Podcast, Brady Wilson sits down with Aaron Barth, PhD, founder and president of Dialectic, a learning company focused on soft skills and critical thinking. A former philosophy professor at Western University who specialized in human reasoning and decision theory, Aaron now helps leaders understand how AI actually works so they can judge when to trust it. In this second conversation of our Leading Humans in the Age of AI series, he explains why the story we tell about AI is raising anxiety at work, and why understanding the technology is the best way he's found to bring that anxiety down.

Aaron's central argument is that one of the most important things a leader can do right now is learn how AI actually works. Once people see it as a statistical tool predicting the next word, the facade of intelligence falls away and they start trusting their own judgment again.

In this conversation, you'll hear:

• Why the dominant story about AI drains the empathy, critical thinking, and relationship effort teams depend on, and how leaders can bring the temperature down
• Aaron's GPS analogy for how a large language model builds its answers, and why hallucinations are built into the way it works
• What "human first" looks like in practice: write it, design it, or think it through yourself first, then bring AI in as an editor and give it no more weight than another perspective
• Why AI tools are built to tell you you're right, and two quick tests for pressure-testing any answer: run the same prompt in three fresh tabs, and ask it about something you know deeply
• How an AI-written email from someone he respected changed the way Aaron felt about that relationship, and why he recommends writing your own

If you're leading a team that's already using AI, or quietly uneasy about it, this conversation will give you a clear way to talk about what the technology is and isn't, so your people can use it well and keep doing their best thinking.

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Transforming Workplace Engagement For Over 20 Years

Whether you’re looking to grow leadership capabilities, build high-performance teams or fuel everyday innovation, Juice’s proven content and customized learning solutions will deliver lasting impact and help you transform your workplace. For 20 years, we’ve partnered with companies around the world to transform employee engagement. Every day, we work with leaders like you to unlock the energy needed to fuel performance.

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