189: The Hidden Cost of AI Leadership- Why Shortcuts Hurt Your Team

2025-07-22

Are you using AI in leadership or just hiding behind it? Discover how shortcuts like AI video clones and ChatGPT strategies are killing trust. Subscribe for more real-talk on leadership!What You’ll Learn:Why overusing AI as a leader can damage team trust and engagementReal-world stories about AI video clones, copy-pasted strategies, and feedback gone wrongHow to use AI to elevate—not replace—your leadership presenceSimple tips to stay connected with your team (even when you’re busy!)

Are you using AI in leadership or just hiding behind it? Discover how shortcuts like AI video clones and ChatGPT strategies are killing trust. Subscribe for more real-talk on leadership!

What You’ll Learn:

Why overusing AI as a leader can damage team trust and engagement
Real-world stories about AI video clones, copy-pasted strategies, and feedback gone wrong
How to use AI to elevate—not replace—your leadership presence
Simple tips to stay connected with your team (even when you’re busy!)

AI in leadership is everywhere but are you leveraging it to connect or to check out? In this episode, Lia Garvin breaks down the hidden dangers of using AI tools as a replacement for genuine leadership moments. From the jaw-dropping story of an executive who sends out AI video clones instead of real updates, to the cringe-worthy copy-paste ChatGPT strategies, Lia explores the real impact these shortcuts have on team morale and trust.

Drawing from personal experience as Chief of Staff at Microsoft and a candid coaching story from YouTube, Lia illustrates how teams crave authentic connection, not automation. When leaders substitute presence with AI, they risk eroding respect, increasing turnover, and missing critical opportunities to support high performers.

But it’s not all warnings. This episode also shows how to use AI as a tool for brainstorming and efficiency, while still taking full responsibility as a leader.

Lia shares actionable advice on having hard conversations, building executive presence, and using AI to amplify your impact, not erase it.

If you’re a manager wondering how to get the best from your team in the age of automation, this is your playbook for keeping humanity at the heart of leadership.

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