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LEADERSHIP REIMAGINED WHITEPAPER | 33 Exploring AI-augmented Replacing ‘soft skills’ leadership with ‘power skills’ AI-augmented leadership is an emerging As we saw from our survey results, human- approach that involves human management centric leadership skills are essential for teams collaborating with AI to potentially succeeding in the future of work. These make more informed decisions, enhance skills include communication, emotional team dynamics, and better support intelligence, and collaboration. employees. According to Steve, the way we talk about A recent essay in the Journal of Leadership these skills needs to change to reflect their & Organizational Studies examined AI- critical value for leaders now and into the augmented leadership. The authors described future. it as algorithms offering recommendations “Traditionally, they have been called on team member needs and dynamics using ‘soft skills’. But, personally, I think that data from sources like employee surveys this actually lowers their importance to or automatically gathered information from a degree. Instead, ‘power skills’ is an communication channels, movement, and emerging term that I think is more 昀椀tting.” even wearable-generated physiological 63 To develop your power skills, AIM has a data . It’s a smart move to keep an eye on this number of short courses available, including innovative leadership approach. While it’s Effective Communication and Leading with an exciting development, it also raises some Emotional Intelligence. ethical questions that merit thoughtful consideration. 62 The Future of Jobs Report 2023, 2023, World Economic Forum, 63 The Now, New, and Next of Digital Leadership: How Arti昀椀cial Intelligence (AI) Will Take Over and Change Leadership as We Know It, 2023, Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies