Post by Ian Watts

Four people. Same organisation. Four completely different experiences of AI adoption. The L&D manager is designing a programme to a brief that doesn’t exist yet. The apprentice is already using AI in ways nobody is tracking. The line manager is being told to “encourage AI use” with no framework for what that means. And the board approved the strategy and is waiting for results — but no one has defined what those results look like. I see this pattern constantly. Not in one organisation — across most of them. It’s tempting to read it as a communication failure. It’s not. It’s a readiness failure. When each layer of an organisation has a different understanding of what AI adoption should actually produce, the gap between intent and reality doesn’t close through training alone. Swipe through. Each role is one slide. The last slide is the one that matters. #AIStrategy #FutureOfWork #LandD #Leadership