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↑ ↓ to choose · enter to openUpdated 5 November 2026 · by Leap Company

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What is leading by example?

Also: role modelling

What managers visibly do themselves, and what therefore becomes normal in a team. In AI adoption, psychological safety and feedback, it turns out to be the strongest predictor of what employees do, stronger than policy or training.

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Leadership

The manager's role in how employees use AI

  • AI and the manager
  • Leading by example
  • Manager skills

Whether employees use AI and experience it as an improvement depends mainly on whether their own manager visibly supports it. At the same time, half of HR directors doubt their managers can do this, and training alone does little as long as those managers are overloaded.

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Culture

Psychological safety of middle managers and their role in teams

  • Middle managers
  • Leading by example
  • New managers

Middle managers feel less free to voice mistakes and doubts than their own bosses and their own teams, and newly promoted managers least of all. Yet they are the layer expected to model psychological safety in teams. Culture work that skips this layer does not land.

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