The Smart Delegator

They’re all about working smarter. If AI can handle it, they’ll hand it over. They focus on big-picture thinking and are often first to adopt and scale AI. But delegate too fast, and they risk missing nuance, losing context, and slipping on quality.

How to spot them

Signature behaviours:

Automates everything routine – Scheduling, reports, research... you name it.
Delegates with oversight – Sets the system, then checks in.
Optimises for output – Constantly fine-tunes tools for speed and scale.
Encourages team adoption for efficiency reasons – Shares tips, tools, and time-saving wins.
Still wants control – Automation is fine, as long as they set the rules.

What this means for you:

• They unlock team capacity and reduce bottlenecks.

• They normalise AI as a smart assistant, not just a fancy feature.

• But unchecked, they may miss context, skip collaboration, or over-delegate without review.

• With structure, they become your AI power user with human oversight built in.

The challenges they create

⚠️ Speed over depth – May miss insights or signals humans would catch.
⚠️ Blind spot risk – Trusts AI output even when human review is needed.
⚠️ Reduced collaboration – Bypasses peers in favour of automation.
⚠️ Knowledge gaps – Risks over-optimising while losing team input and learning.

What to do

Automate with review, not removal

• Build in flags for critical AI outputs that need human checks.

• Use dashboards to track time saved and errors caught.

• Design review prompts into automated flows: “Is this still right?”

Support efficient and ethical AI use

• Provide templates and guidelines for smart delegation.

• Map out what should be automated, and what shouldn’t.

• Make AI transparency part of the rollout: show decisions, not just results.

Bring people back into the process

• Encourage team moments where human input sharpens AI output.

• Ask them to share why they trust AI, not just what it produced.

• Position them as mentors, helping others use AI wisely, not blindly.

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