The People Manager's AI Handbook

lead teams in the age of AI

AI can draft your feedback, your updates and your policy in seconds, and it can rehearse a hard conversation with you. None of that changes who answers for a decision about a person. This handbook shows people managers how to draft, spar and decide with AI: a one-page team policy, feedback that still sounds like you, rehearsal that ends with the real conversation, monitoring that measures work and not people, and a 30-day experiment that shows what actually improved.

Inside this book

• Team policy - when AI is allowed and how to document it
• Coaching and feedback with AI support
• Performance and fairness - bias checks and transparency
• Change management - reskilling and role redesign
• Comms - clearer updates, documentation, and decision logs
• Tool setup and guardrails - data boundaries, privacy, and audit trails
• Templates you can reuse - prompts, checklists, and scoring rubrics
• Measurement - track time saved and quality improvements over 30 days
• Sparring with AI - rehearse hard conversations and think through conflict, purpose, and problems before you face your team
• AI inside your people tools - review drafts, meeting recaps, and agents, used within current workplace AI rules

By Valentin Nagacevschi