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 Hiii, If you need proof that a 4-day work week is possible, just look at how much we all crammed into yesterday. Just saying! 😅 Short weeks are both a gift and a curse. The long weekend was great, but playing catch-up is…THE WORST. Thankfully, I’m caffeinated, and we have plenty to talk about! Today, we're getting into AI potentially eroding your team's skills and causing them to forget manual parts of their job, Madison Butler saying things about authenticity and power that are going to sit with you, and an ethics stat that probably won’t be surprising anymore. Let the discussions commence! And before I forget: I'm building AI things LIVE and you should be there!! You can follow along and build it yourself and have it ready to rock and roll by the end of the session. Join us! Sponsored by Rippling Keeping your best people can be summed up in one simple word... Rippling is hosting a free virtual event on June 30th about retention and the AI tools that are changing how HR leaders actually solve it...with two HR leaders who've actually been in the trenches: Emily Herron, who built HR at Plaid from 80 to 1,100+ employees, and Sabrina Kidd, who competes for top talent at a nonprofit with a budget that would make a VC laugh. Pull up a digital seat and take notes! 🤓 🗞️ Here's the Tea: 😬 Amid heavy AI use, workers say their skills are atrophying The TL;DR: Half of employees say they're too dependent on AI, and 39% say that dependence has actually made them worse at their jobs! Meanwhile, 60% feel pressured to use it anyway, without the training or guardrails to use it well. My POV: This is exactly the reason why I will always stand on AI being another tool, because in more instances than corporations are willing to admit, making AI a full-on replacement isn’t exactly paying off the way they intended. Shocker, I know! If your people are leaning on AI because they feel like they have to (not because it's actually making them better) you've got a skills erosion issue building underneath a productivity narrative. The orgs that are going to win long-term are the ones treating AI adoption as a learning and development opportunity, rather than just being vague about how it could or should be used. 🎙️Mic Drop Moment: “When people’s positions of power feel threatened, they will do anything they can to control the room.”On the mic this week: Madison Butler is an HR leader, speaker, content creator, and author of Let Them See You, a book focused on authenticity and showing up fully in the workplace. Known for her candid conversations around race, leadership, burnout, and corporate culture, Madison has built a brand helping people rethink what work should feel like. Pin this:
My H*ly Sh*t Moment: The most profound part of this convo was remembering that authenticity is really about finally learning to see yourself clearly enough that other people’s inability to fully see you stops defining your worth. BANGER!!! ▶️ Press Play 📊 Data Is My Love Language: Stat: 1 in 5 workers said they felt pressured to compromise their ethics. My spiral: When people feel like speaking up could cost them their job or their relationships at work, they don't speak up. That silence is a direct reflection of how safe (or toxic) your culture actually is. The real gut punch is that most of these employees aren't staying quiet because they don't care. They're staying quiet because they've done the math and decided it's not worth it. 🛠️ In Your Toolkit You set a bunch of goals in January, and guess what? It's almost July, which means someone's about to ask you how it's all going! 😅 Before you spiral, join us for HR Therapy on June 24th, where we're pulling straight from Checkr’s 2026 CHRO Insights Report to get real about the three things breaking HR right now: fraud and risk management, AI in hiring, and a tech stack that's not keeping up. HR leaders who've lived through all of it will be helping you build an actual H2 game plan so you can handle the most common issues at your org with confidence! 🗣️ UNMUTE YOURSELF I think a lot of us have gotten so good at being “professional” that we don’t even realize how much of ourselves we’ve edited down to survive work. And after a while, the mask becomes muscle memory. That leads to my question to think about this week: “What’s the version of yourself you hide at work, and why?” 🛠️ TRY THIS TOMORROW: Most of us are pretty good at collecting upward feedback, what about peer feedback? That's where the blind spots live, but also where you can have some really uniquely interesting convos as well! Try this: “Ask a peer: ‘What's one thing I do that unintentionally makes your job harder?’” Sponsored by SurveyMonkey Your annual engagement survey called, and it wants you to know it has absolutely no idea what's happening in your org. 🙃 👂 OVERHEARD IN SAFE SPACE  After 28 years, you’ve probably seen it all and then some! Read what members had to say here. See ya on Friday! | |||||||||||
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