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Human Skills in the Age of AI
Every week one article for leaders: what changes when AI takes over part of the work, and which human skills matter more because of it. With studies, examples from workshops and one small step to try.
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Latest articles
- #28Everyone Is a Manager Now — The Job Nobody Applied For
- #27Presenting with AI (3): Stage — What the Tool Cannot Hear
- #25Presenting with AI (1): Story — What Do You Want Them to Feel?
- #24Creativity — A Safety Problem, Not a Training Problem
- #23Compassion — Feeling For, Not Feeling With
- #22Curiosity (Part 2 of 2) — The Price List
- #21Curiosity (Part 1 of 2) — The Mid-Career Dip
- #20Courage (Part 2 of 2) — Making It Cheap to Try
- #19Courage (Part 1 of 2) — Why Nothing Starts
- #18Who Wrote This? — AI Text and the Parts You Should Still Write Yourself
- #17The Atlantic Gap — What to Copy From America, and What Not To
- #16The AI-Native Organisation — When Culture Becomes Executable
- #15Culture by Design — Your Company Already Has One. Did You Choose It?
- #14Communication (Part 2 of 2) — Feedback, Conflict, and the End of the Walk
- #13Communication (Part 1 of 2) — The Only Tool You Never Put Down
- #12Digital Skills (Part 2 of 2) — Make One Thing Run Without You
- #11Digital Skills (Part 1 of 2) — Learning to Drive the Machine
- #10Profiling — Reading People Without Putting Them in a Box
- #9Senses & Emotions — The Leadership Edge No Machine Can Copy (Yet)
- #8Meeting Moderation — The Most Underrated Skill in Your Calendar
- #7Delegation — What to Keep, What to Hand Over, What to Automate
- #6Energy, Focus & Meditation - just the right balance
- #5Self-Management — Where Your Intentions Become Actions
- #4Resources & Limitations — What's Actually Holding You Back?
- #3Leadership Style — When to Tell, When to Coach
- #2Team Vision & Motivation
Earlier articles, 2021 to 2026
- Linkedin Newsletter "Human Skills in the Age of AI" & Releasing the Digital Leader Canvas
- Certified Coach on LinkedIn, Command-and-Control on Monday
- When Senior Leaders Block the Change They Ask For
- 3 minutes max. is live
- (German version) Hybrid Meeting Optimierung mit Pascal Baumgartner - Meeting Experte von Happy Meeting
- Goodbye newsletter - hello speaker activities!
- Are you actively building resilience in your team?
- Entrepreneurial Mindset and Entrepreneurial Skills - what’s meant by that?
- FUTURE-READY LEADERSHIP?
- CHALLENGE YOUR HYBRID READINESS IN 60 MINUTES
- Effective communication - the key to successful collaboration in a remote context
- HR managers and leaders wanted
- How do your personal values match your corporate values?
- Becoming a Linkedin Top Voice / sawing off the branch I am sitting on
- How does group identification influence the willingness to help others?
- Love it, change it or quit
- Why should we address the impact when giving feedback on obvious topics?
- FROM TEAM MATE & FRIEND TO MANAGER & FRIEND
- The ROI of leadership development
- How to run a culture workshop: 6 steps and a free template
- My project this week: Updating our values and team vision.
- 4 steps to foster more effective communication in your team
- How much ad hoc feedback do you give in your remote working team?
- Would you let yourself be coached by an AI?
- 5 Essential moderation skills for modern leads
- 3 tips to make your remote team better being a leader in a digital environment
- Autonomy instead of authority: how to lead a team that decides for itself
- Break the silence in (remote) meetings!
- Bachelorette Party Planner as a temporary part time job
- Less blah blah, more impact
- Cozy Dinner or Clubnight at Berghain?
- Recognize inhibiting beliefs and overwrite them
- Beliefs and their effect on our truth
- Realize your ideas - push your future with the Future Pace method
- To change a certain behavior - Act on it!
- Team event with a difference - jumping together from 4000 meters
- The effect of external appearance
- How does AI impact leadership?
- Why should we rock English on the job?
- Concentrated inspiration every two weeks
- 5 tips for better sleep
- How to say no to unnecessary meetings
- Effective meetings: what matters most for successful leaders
- How Eisenhower can make your life easier
- From friend to leader
- Developing a team vision as a leader
- Why you should try improv theatre as a leader
- Give your "boss" feedback - he probably deserves it!
- How much time do you spend in meetings?
- How do I become a digital leader?
- What sets a digital leader apart from a traditional manager?
- Leader Question: What do you understand by digital leadership?
- Unlocking potential through neuroplasticity
- How Stop, Reflect & Correct bring you closer to your goals
- Know your attention span and work more productively
- How to activate your neurotransmitters to be even more productive
- Why a no is often better than a yes for leaders
- Your inner drive has a big impact on your work
- Building rapport with pacing and leading, part 2
- The top 10 skills for leaders in 2025, according to the World Economic Forum
- Rapport in leadership: a better relationship with your team
- Feedback culture in leadership
- Why good sleep matters so much in leadership
- Enthusiastic employees are the most powerful resource a company can have
- Why multitasking leads to stress
- Why sleep matters in leadership
- Better leadership decisions through intuition
- What does ChatGPT mean for the future of leadership?
- Automatisms and autopilot in leadership
- Their business is your business: taking responsibility as a leader
- Dream teams: building your high-performance team as a leader
- The power of deadlines: leadership and punctuality
- The 90-minute sleep cycle rule for high-performance leaders
- Self-confidence boost!
- Using Christmas as a boundary in leadership
- Using profiling in leadership
- Leadership and speed reading
- Mastermind: the peer-to-peer principle in leadership
- The power of small habits in leadership
- Shifting your focus as a leader
- Leaders need leaders
- Time management vs. energy management in leadership
- Building daily routines as a leader
- Warm-up games for online and offline meetings
- Games after breaks in online meetings
- Opening questions for meetings
- The Eisenhower principle for leaders
- Learning to say no as a leader
- F*** perfectionism
- How can you create more time for leadership?
- How much time do you take for leadership?
Questions about the blog
How often are new articles published?
Every week, as an edition of Andre Ottlik's LinkedIn newsletter Human Skills in the Age of AI. Subscribe to the newsletter so you do not miss one.
Are the articles available in German too?
Yes. Many articles are also available in German on digital-leader-program.de.
How can I go deeper than the blog?
Our workshops, coaching and the podcast 3 minutes max. go further and support you over months. Have a look at our services or book a 30-minute call.
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