AI for Managers: People Management & Team Management

Course Overview

This course provides a practical AI operating system for people managers to automate routine work, improve team communication, and make AI-aware people decisions compliant with the EU AI Act. It focuses on applying AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to daily management tasks while maintaining human judgment in sensitive decisions.

Designed for managers, team leads, HR partners, and senior leaders, the course offers hands-on labs, role plays, and templates to build a defensible, humane, and high-performance management operation using AI.

Key Takeaways

• Run AI-assisted one-on-ones, status updates, stakeholder emails, and meeting follow-ups with practical workflows.
• Identify and mitigate hallucinations, bias, and sentiment issues in AI-generated reports before using them for decisions.
• Apply a three-question framework to decide when AI should decide, assist, or stay out of people decisions, emphasizing AI ethics.
• Build defensible AI workflows for hiring, feedback, performance, conflict resolution, and difficult conversations.
• Create a 30-day AI operating system including personal growth plans, skill-gap mapping, team rollout, and AI adoption tracking.
• Understand the EU AI Act risk tiers and prohibited workplace AI uses to avoid legal penalties.
• Use the Empathy Auditor protocol for sensitive conversations to maintain trust.
• Develop measurable ROI metrics and compliance-ready documentation for AI use in management.

Prerequisites

• Manage or be about to manage three or more direct reports.
• Access to a mainstream AI tool such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini.
• Comfort with workplace tools like email, Slack or Teams, and shared documents.
• No prior AI training required, just curiosity and willingness to try new prompts.
• 90 minutes of focused time over 30 days to set up your system.

Target Learners

• People managers, team leads, and engineering managers with 3 to 50 direct reports.
• New and emerging managers stepping into leadership in an AI-first workplace.
• Experienced managers overwhelmed by AI tools and compliance pressures.
• L&D leaders, HR business partners, and Heads of Talent evaluating AI fluency training for managers.
• Directors and senior leaders responsible for AI rollout success needing standardized manager operations.