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Hilary Gridley, a WHOOP product director, argues that AI can help managers become "supermanagers" by scaling their coaching and feedback. She shares five practical strategies, from building custom GPTs that replicate her editing and feedback to teaching teams to use AI as a thinking partner.
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- Codify your most repeated feedback into a custom GPT so teammates get coaching on demand.
- Use AI-powered scenario simulations to let teams practice reasoning and influence skills during meetings.
- Have team members draft their own top takeaways before comparing with AI-generated meeting notes to protect synthesis skills.
- Reverse-engineer your standards by comparing before-and-after work, then turn the patterns into a reusable prompt.
- Teach teams iterative, context-rich collaboration with AI so it works as a thinking partner, not a one-off prompt generator.
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