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AI+ for Managers

Lead Your Team Into the Future of Work

Lead a team where AI is part of the work.

Your team is already using AI — some well, some not — and you're accountable for the results. Most managers hit the same gap: no framework for what to delegate and what to keep human. This book gives you the Manager's Delegation Matrix, 30 copy-ready prompts for weekly management work, and practical answers to the fairness questions your team will ask. Built by an AI engineering firm for managers who are accountable for the team's output — and want a framework that earns that accountability.

Tier
Tier 1 · Essentials
Category
Foundations
Format
Guide
Updated
Q2 2026
Inside
  • 30 ready-made, market-tested prompts: 1:1s, performance reviews, upward briefings, team comms
  • The Manager's Delegation Matrix — a four-way call on every piece of work: automate, AI drafts, delegate, or hands-on
  • The TRUST and VOICE checks for any AI message that affects a team member's career
  • The team fairness conversation — scripted end-to-end, for when AI use diverges across the team
  • A dual-track 30-day plan covering your own practice and the team's adoption
Who this is for

Front-line and middle managers running a team of 3–50 people inside an established organisation. They have direct reports, budget responsibility, and delivery accountability, but they operate within strategy set by others. They might be a marketing manager, an operations manager, a customer service manager, an engineering team lead, a regional sales manager, a finance manager, a department head in the public sector, or a clinical team leader in healthcare. They got promoted for being good at the work; they are now doing a different job that's mostly about other people.

Also for:Managers-of-managers (20–100 indirect reports, occasional "If you have managers reporting to you" sidebars); newly promoted managers in their first 6–12 months of the role; senior individual contributors with informal leadership responsibilities (team leads, tech leads, principal practitioners) who coach and coordinate without a formal line-management title; general managers running a P&L within a larger organisation; franchise or branch managers.

You’ll be able to
  • Apply the Manager's Delegation Matrix to decide, for any piece of team work, whether it should be automated, AI-drafted with manager sign-off, delegated to a team member, or handled personally with AI as a thought partner
  • Apply the PRISM Prompting Framework to at least 5 categories of manager-scale tasks (team communication, performance reviews, project planning, upward reporting, decision briefs)
  • Apply the TRUST Framework to evaluate AI-generated outputs that affect team members' careers, compensation, or performance ratings
  • Design and execute a team-level AI adoption plan using the principles of change management and the AI Opportunity Matrix
  • Establish a team AI policy that covers data safety, tool use, and transparency expectations using the AI Safety Checklist
What’s inside
Diagnostic
How AI-Ready Is Your Team Leadership?
Chapter 1
AI in Management Right Now
Chapter 2
The Manager's AI Vantage Point
Chapter 3
How to Prompt AI (Manager's Edition)
Chapter 4
Deciding Who Does What — The Manager's Delegation Matrix
Chapter 5
AI for People and Performance
Chapter 6
AI for Meetings and Communication
Chapter 7
AI for Decisions and Problem-Solving
Chapter 8
Leading Your Team Through AI Change
Chapter 9
AI Safety, Policy and Your Team
Chapter 10
Your 30-Day Manager AI Plan
Back matter
Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference

Built by an AI engineering firm — for managers who carry the team's output and want a framework that earns the accountability.

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