{"id":650741,"date":"2026-05-05T08:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650741\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:14:17","slug":"half-of-australians-lack-confidence-in-leaders-amid-ai-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650741\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Australians lack confidence in leaders amid AI shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third of employees attributed their lack of confidence in leadership to limited training and development, while just as many said their executives were too slow to adapt to change. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Belinda Lyone, Co-CEO of COS, said the findings highlight how Australian workers want clarity and proactive leadership. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, uncertainty creates anxiety, so when leadership fails to communicate a vision for how AI will be integrated, employees can feel left behind or undervalued,&#8221; Lyone said <a href=\"https:\/\/newshub.medianet.com.au\/2026\/05\/only-half-of-australian-workers-believe-their-leaders-are-ready-for-an-ai-future\/151272\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a statement<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t just a technology challenge; it&#8217;s a cultural one. Businesses need to actively bring their people along on the journey.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Confidence in leadership&#8217;s skills was lowest in New South Wales (49%) and Victoria (43%), and strongest in the Northern Territory (83%) and Tasmania (63%), according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third of employees attributed their lack of confidence in leadership to limited training and development, while just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40565,64,63,5449,1871,44],"class_list":["post-650741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ai-implementation","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-human-resources","tag-leadership","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}