Session 1 activities
ACTIVITIES · 45 MINFictional data only
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Manager's data line: OK or never?
Sort each item a manager might want to paste into the approved AI tool. Be ready to explain one card your group disagreed about.
- Your own bullet notes for a team update, with no names
- An employee's attendance record and doctor's note
- A public state guidance page you want summarized
- Last year's salary spreadsheet for the department
- A generic description: 'a team member missed two deadlines'
- A customer's name with their account number, to draft an apology
- An unreleased bid price for a North Shore Builders project
- A vendor's public product brochure
Own-use task: the team update
Rebuild the weak prompt for drafting a team update about a new shift-swap process at Cape Harbor Inn (fictional). Use your own sanitized notes only.
Weak prompt
Write an update about the new shift swap thing.
Hints (5)
- Name the audience and channel.
- Give the facts from your notes and fence them.
- Say what must not be invented (dates, approvals, policies).
- Set tone and length.
- Ask for a list of anything it was unsure about.
Supervising AI-assisted work
Branching. A team member at Merrimack Freight (fictional) sends you a customer-facing delay notice they drafted with AI. It promises 'a full refund of shipping charges for any delay.' The company has no such policy.
The notice is due to go out in an hour. What do you do first?
Which task saved you the most time?
Poll after Lab 1. Use the spread to start the debrief.
Of your three own-use tasks, which saved the most time after checking?
Where could AI help my team?
Online, before session 2.
List five places in your team's week where AI might help. For each, note who does it now and roughly how long it takes.
- Five concrete tasks, not job titles.
- Who does it now.
- Rough minutes or hours per week.