Mentorship in the Age of AI

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About this episode.

The people who taught you the job were never just handing you answers. In Episode 2, Matt Perry and Rob Cannon, PhD sit down with Janette O'Neill, an executive-level People and Transformation leader with 30 years of experience, on what happens to judgement, mentorship and tacit knowledge when the answer is always one prompt away. Why expertise and judgement are not the same thing, how remote work and now AI quietly strip out the incidental learning careers are built on, and what leaders can actually put in place so the next generation still builds judgement, not just gets the answer.

Chapters

1. 00:00The Elephant in the Algorithm (cold open)
2. 00:37Welcome: meet Janette O'Neill, 30 years in HR and transformation
3. 02:21The invisible rule book: what you absorb by watching experienced people
4. 05:06Expertise vs judgement: knowing what to do vs when, why and how
5. 09:28Not in the loop: the incidental learning that vanished in COVID
6. 13:33Over-automating: where skills quietly hollow out
7. 14:35When the answer is one prompt away
8. 16:13Mentorship when the technical answer is always available
9. 17:25The answer disguised as a question: why the senior colleague still matters
10. 18:32Mentors become sponsors: who vouches for you when you're not in the room
11. 24:07What leaders can actually put in place (plus reverse mentoring)
12. 28:25Building the human muscle: EQ, IQ and the 25/75 tools question
13. 33:30The real risk: becoming the person who controls the machine
14. 35:26Close: AI accelerates expertise; people still build judgement

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Guest

Janette O'Neill