Your team of change-makers has secured some additional budget resources to integrate artificial intelligence into your workforce.

At present, roughly 40% of the employee group in your organization embraces technology as an enabling tool. The remainder believes that robots are coming for their jobs. You not only have to plan for the use of technology to complement human function but realize that you have a bigger hurdle to overcome -- technology adoption. Without buy-in, you will never get the support you need to implement, train and upgrade the employee team on the skills, or the job-specific competencies required to make this happen. Your organization will dig in its proverbial heels. You begin sourcing the technology, tools, and training required, but quickly realize that you do not have the needed stronghold to launch this initiative with your employee team.

Your challenge, therefore, is to build an implementation strategy to promote employee buy-in. What communication models and concepts will you use to build the foundation of your strategy? What do you know about values, attitudes, and motivation to promote buy-in, especially with that very low buy-in rate of 40%?

To bridge this gap, you have been asked to participate in a discussion designed to build buy-in to the project by shifting organizational attitudes and behaviours towards the benefits of artificial intelligence. - outlining the key contents of an effective strategy, planning, and evaluation process and describing each component part of the process you are designing, linking all content back to the goal of enhancing organizational behaviour and culture through the adoption of a change strategy to support artificial intelligence adoption. Keep in mind that your objective is to demonstrate how your strategy will be marketed to our employees....to enhance employee buy-in. Once the process is completed, map it back to improved outcomes of organizational behaviour. The goal is not to push through your project but rather, to create the conditions for your employee team to pick it up and move it forward. Be creative!