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AI exercises for managers and team leads

71 exercises built around real tasks. Each takes about 5 minutes.

• Announce a new weekend rotation in three clear rulesPlanning and scheduling · Giving the right contextPremium
• Announce a team change and answer the first questionEmails and messages · Giving the right contextPremium
• Announce a team meeting change people will actually followEmails and messages · Asking for a format you can usePremium
• Answer your team's questions about a new triage processExplaining things simply · Asking for a format you can usePremium
• Approve or deny shift swaps using the warehouse rulesPlanning and scheduling · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Approve part of an overtime request with the mathEmails and messages · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Brief a recruiter on a new opening in four linesPlanning and scheduling · Asking for a format you can usePremium
• Brief an interview panel on who covers whatMeetings and notes · Asking for a format you can usePremium
• Build a 90-minute team offsite agenda with a required itemMeetings and notes · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Build a holiday coverage schedule that follows every rulePlanning and scheduling · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Build a sourced timeline of a shipping delay from team emailsResearch and sources · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Check a vendor's sales claims against its own case studyFact-checking AI answers · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Check holiday shift fairness after an unrecorded swapComparing options and deciding · Giving the right contextPremium
• Check your team deck's claims against the engagement surveyFact-checking AI answers · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Coach with questions instead of handing over answersMeetings and notes · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Compare training proposals on cost per personResearch and sources · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Decide which recurring meetings to keep, shorten or cancelComparing options and deciding · Giving the right contextPremium
• Draft SBI feedback about a late reportFeedback on your writing · Showing an example of what you wantPremium
• Estimate this year's cost of two open rolesSpreadsheets and data · Giving the right contextPremium
• Explain a budget overspend with the math firstSpreadsheets and data · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Explain a team member's bonus with one line of mathExplaining things simply · Showing an example of what you wantPremium
• Fill an internal transfer recommendation with evidenceResumes, cover letters and applications · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Fill in a hiring scorecard with evidence, not vibesComparing options and deciding · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Fill in an end-of-shift handoff from messy notesMeetings and notes · Showing an example of what you wantPremium
• Find the gaps in a promotion case before the committee sees itFeedback on your writing · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Flag who is averaging too many hours, with the math shownSpreadsheets and data · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Get pointed feedback on a touchy team announcementFeedback on your writing · Giving the right contextPremium
• Hand off your work before vacation with clear decision rightsPlanning and scheduling · Giving the right contextPremium
• Help an overloaded report decide what to dropComparing options and deciding · Giving the right contextPremium
• Introduce a new teammate without oversharingEmails and messages · Giving the right contextPremium
• Make the case for one more hire with current numbersComparing options and deciding · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Map a team's quarterly goals to months after a hiring freezePlanning and scheduling · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Nominate a teammate for an award with matching evidenceEmails and messages · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Pick a temp agency with your own weighted criteriaComparing options and deciding · Giving the right contextPremium
• Pick the retro changes the team actually voted forMeetings and notes · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Pick turnover benchmarks that actually match your restaurantsResearch and sources · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Plan a knowledge handoff before someone leavesPlanning and scheduling · Giving the right contextPremium
• Post this week's support numbers in last week's formatSpreadsheets and data · Showing an example of what you wantPremium
• Post this week's top three team prioritiesPlanning and scheduling · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Post weekly team wins that credit the right peoplePosts and content · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Prep a 1:1 agenda your team member will seeMeetings and notes · Saying who it's forFree
• Prep neutral talking points for a team conflictMeetings and notes · Getting the tone rightPremium
• Prep skip-level questions that don't put anyone on the spotMeetings and notes · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Prep wins, misses and asks for a quarterly reviewMeetings and notes · Asking for a format you can usePremium
• Pull a clean decision log out of messy meeting notesMeetings and notes · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Pull owned action items out of a rambling meetingMeetings and notes · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Rank a facilities team's request backlog by your director's rulesPlanning and scheduling · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Recap a customer incident for your VP, facts onlySummarizing · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Recommend a scheduling tool from messy demo notesComparing options and deciding · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Reply to a time-off request that hits a blackout weekEmails and messages · Getting the tone rightPremium
• Report a warehouse team's week to your director with fixed numbersSummarizing · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Report compliance training completion without people on leaveSpreadsheets and data · Giving the right contextPremium
• Report pulse survey changes in points, not percentSpreadsheets and data · Giving the right contextPremium
• Report quarterly key result progress in three linesSummarizing · Asking for a format you can usePremium
• Review a team member's client email before it goes outFeedback on your writing · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Rewrite vague goals into measurable onesFeedback on your writing · Showing an example of what you wantPremium
• Set 30-60-90 day goals a new hire can measurePlanning and scheduling · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Share team pulse survey results as keep, change, trySummarizing · Setting limits and rulesPremium
• Share what a no-meeting-day study found, in a Slack postResearch and sources · Saying who it's forPremium
• Shrink a customer survey report into 3 bullets for your VPSummarizing · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Split a training budget by the rules, with the mathComparing options and deciding · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Tell the team the offsite is canceled, without spinEmails and messages · Getting the tone rightPremium
• Total candidate scorecards and pick who advancesComparing options and deciding · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Turn down a time-off request and offer dates that workEmails and messages · Getting the tone rightPremium
• Work out PTO carryover for four team members from the policyResearch and sources · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Write a 3-sentence hours burn readout after a change orderSpreadsheets and data · Giving the right contextPremium
• Write a grad school reference that's specific and accurateResumes, cover letters and applications · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Write a promotion case that credits the right personSummarizing · Catching mistakes and made-up factsPremium
• Write a review summary that stays inside the review periodFeedback on your writing · Keeping the AI to your sourcesPremium
• Write a team shoutout that names what someone actually didEmails and messages · Getting the tone rightPremium
• Write your first message as the team's new managerEmails and messages · Getting the tone rightPremium