Chartered Management Institute

So in that context, it's interesting to hear from different people how AI is further disrupting what they do, the business models that they've grown up with, they're very familiar with, and they used to feel very sure about.

Um, [lips smack] you know, I was thinking earlier, I, I received an, an email earlier this week from the Chartered Management Institute about research they've just released stating that, uh, I think it was only 12% of leaders feel confident leading an AI-enabled team.

And the email that I was reading put this really well when it talked about the AI challenge for leaders is not about technology adoption.

It's not about feeling comfortable with the tech.

Her areas of expertise include political inequality and local bureaucracy, and she also worked in the civil service before joining IPPR.

Finally, Joel Spreadborough, Head of Policy and Impact at the Chartered Management Institute, who over almost two decades has worked both in Parliament and with a wide range of politicians in various roles.

So you'll note that on our panel today, we have people who have experience in local government as well as national government and of being officials as well as being politicians.

So I hope our discussion will really touch on the skills that are needed in all of those areas by politicians and across the whole entire system, different levels of government in the UK today.

But I kind of went into teaching management initially.

My boss took redundancy from the helpline and later on said, would you come and teach personal and professional development for managers for me on this Chartered Management Institute, like professional management course? director of teaching for and so I went and started doing that and then I became a teacher in management for the you know for these professional courses and then the next thing I knew there was a an opportunity to teach counselling skills for an introductory level at the local college, but then also teaching it at level four, which is where people can start to qualify.

So I went into teaching in FE and then I saw a job opportunity come up teaching in higher education.

So I went for it and I've been teaching counselling higher education ever since.

But I want to get down into the nitty gritty, as you will, and talk about some of the things that really make sense to us and really bring it into focus.

Now, Chartered Management Institute did a global research about global workforce.

And across multiple studies, the data confirms that between 58 to 85 percent of managers receive zero formal leadership training.

Say that would be zero, zero formal leadership training when stepping into leadership roles.