We are trying to shift our strategic service offering to be AI-augmented, but our long-term service delivery manager is incredibly low in autonomy and high in conformity, making them highly resistant to changing the process. How do we evaluate their fit for this updated seat using GWC?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

When you shift your strategic direction, the seats on your Accountability Chart must evolve. This means your people must evolve with them. If your service delivery manager is naturally wired with low autonomy and high conformity, they will instinctively crave clear guidelines, established routines, and predictable workflows.

Asking this person to pioneer a fluid, highly unpredictable AI-augmented workflow will trigger massive resistance. This is not because they are a bad employee. It is because their natural behavioral wiring is in direct conflict with the demands of the seat.

You must evaluate this fit using the GWC™ framework: Do they Get it, do they Want it, and do they have the Capacity to do it? While they may get the basic concepts and want to keep their job, they likely lack the conative and behavioral capacity to manage a highly fluid environment without documented procedures.

If they fail the Capacity filter for this updated, fast-moving seat, you have two choices. You can either delay the AI rollout until you have fully documented every process step-by-step to satisfy their need for conformity, or you can move them to a more structured operational seat and hire a highly autonomous manager to drive the AI transformation.