This workshop is designed for first-line and mid-level managers who lead people and are beginning to determine how AI should be used within their teams. It is ideal for managers who have completed Jumpstarting AI Adoption, or who have equivalent hands-on AI experience, and who want to move from managing their own AI use to leading a team through it. No technical background is required.

Participants leave with skills they can immediately apply, including how to:

• Explain how a manager’s responsibilities change when AI joins the team’s work, and know what to watch for that didn’t matter before.
• Apply delegation principles to decide where AI belongs in the team’s work, task by task.
• Sharpen the judgment behind AI-assisted output, and coach that same judgment in others.
• Lead human + AI work deliberately: setting expectations, delegating on purpose, coaching judgment, and owning the outcome.
• Build a team AI capability plan that sets the standard, the checks, and the coaching the team needs.

Each participant receives resources that support learning during the workshop and long afterward.

• Student Guide with workshop slides, notes, and reference material.
• Capability Guides that summarize the delegation, coaching, and judgment practices covered in class.
• AI Acceleration Guide containing ready-to-use prompts that participants can adapt to their own team’s work immediately after the workshop.

Building Your Leadership Foundation
How a manager’s responsibilities change when AI joins the team’s work, and the five things a deliberate AI-enabled manager does differently: setting expectations, delegating on purpose, coaching judgment, watching for drift, and owning the outcome.

Challenge 1: Delegate the Work, Not Just the Task
Decide what to hand off and where AI belongs in it: matching each piece of work to the capability, human or AI, that suits it best.

Challenge 2: Coach the Judgment You Can’t See
Work through a real coaching moment after a team member trusts a confident AI answer without checking it, and build the habit of modeling the judgment AI can’t replace.

Challenge 3: Bring a Reluctant Adopter Along
Help a capable team member who is avoiding AI, and falling behind because of it, without mandating a tool or dismissing what already works.

Challenge 4: Build the Team’s AI System
Scale individual coaching decisions into a team-wide standard for where AI belongs, what gets checked, and how the plan gets reviewed.

Putting Leadership into Practice
Participants leave with the start of a written capability plan for their own team: where AI belongs, the standard for done well, and who needs coaching first.

February 11, 2027

All sessions meet from 11:00am–2:00pm ET via Zoom.