HoneycombIleanell Perez5 min readintermediate
How I Support Humans in the AI Era
Summary
An engineering manager shares her approach to integrating AI tools into her team's workflow by creating dedicated spaces for connection, collaboration, and discussion, rather than imposing new policies. This strategy fostered psychological safety and autonomy, allowing the team to organically explore and define their own AI norms and practices.
- Prioritize creating dedicated spaces for human connection and collaboration over new AI policies.
- Repurpose existing meeting times for AI experimentation and knowledge sharing, like 'AI Innovation Time'.
- Grant teams autonomy to define their own AI norms and experiment with tools, fostering psychological safety.
- Good management practices, such as structured freedom and open discussion, are amplified by AI adoption.
Engineering managers can learn practical, human-centric strategies for integrating AI tools into team workflows while preserving connection and fostering autonomy.
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