Workplace Communication
Meetings, 1:1s, feedback, and async updates where you stay accountable for the words.
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7 min readMeeting Notes That Stay Accurate After AI Drafts Them
An AI notetaker will hand you a clean-looking summary with action items and owners in minutes. It will also, quietly and confidently, misattribute a comment, invent a decision that was actually still open, or assign an action item to the wrong person. A verification workflow that catches this before the notes go out.
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6 min readPrepping Your Own Performance Review With AI, Without Inventing Evidence
AI is genuinely useful for organizing a year of scattered accomplishments into a coherent self-assessment. It is useless, or worse, for supplying the accomplishments themselves. A four-step workflow that keeps the evidence yours and the AI confined to structure and language.
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7 min readWriting Async Status Updates With AI, Without the Spin
Ask AI to draft a status update and it will often reach for confident, upbeat language by default — 'great progress,' 'nearly there' — even when the honest status is blocked or behind. A workflow that states the real status first, in plain words, and keeps AI confined to formatting rather than tone inflation.
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7 min readDocument a Workplace Issue's Facts With AI - Never Ask It for Legal Advice
When something goes wrong at work - a conflict, a possible policy violation, conduct that concerns you - a clean, dated, factual record matters more than most people realize. AI can help you organize that record. It cannot tell you whether something is legally harassment, what you are entitled to, or what to do next. Those questions go to HR, your union, or licensed counsel.
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7 min readPrep Your 1:1 Agenda With AI — Do Not Let It Script the Conversation
AI is a good tool for turning a scattered week into a clear list of updates, blockers, and questions before your next 1:1. It is a bad tool for generating the actual sentences you say when you sit down — not because you will be caught, but because a script makes you a worse listener and can quietly misrepresent your own judgment.
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6 min readDraft Workplace Feedback With AI, Stay Accountable for the Content
AI can turn a rough sense of 'this went well, this didn't' into structured, specific feedback language. It should never supply the examples themselves, and it should never round your intended tone up into harsher criticism or down into vague praise. A workflow for drafting peer or direct-report feedback that stays yours.
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