Been leading a remote team for about two years now. Before that I was in HR, so I have pretty strong opinions on what good people management looks like. Real talk, real conversations, reading the room.
Started using an AI tool a few weeks ago that summarizes meeting notes, flags recurring friction points across checkins, and suggests followup questions based on what someone said last week. It's genuinely useful. I used to forget to circle back on things. Now I don't.
But here's what keeps sitting with me. The followup questions it generates are good. Sometimes better than what I would have thought of in the moment. And that's the part that feels a little weird. Is the conversation still mine if the prompts came from a model?
I'm not spiraling over it. The work is better and my team seems more supported. But there's something worth thinking about when AI starts filling in the gaps that used to require human intuition.
Curious if anyone else is using AI in a people management or team lead context. Not project management, not coding, but actual relationship management. Where's the line for you between useful tool and something that changes how you show up as a leader?
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