Strategies for Integrating AI into Your Team

#ai #leadership #team-management

Bringing AI into your team starts with you. Here’s what worked for me as a #EM building product-minded teams:

  1. Use the tools yourself. Talk about what you learned. Your team follows your lead.
  2. Make a shared doc or chat for AI prompts and tips. Don’t keep tricks to yourself.
  3. Add AI skills to hiring and onboarding. Give candidates practical AI tasks in interviews.
  4. Push AI beyond engineering. Sales, support, and finance can use it too.
  5. Track adoption with real numbers—like throughput or exceptions. Recognize people who improve how you work.
  6. Empower #vibecoding but require ownership - let non-engineers build, but ensure they are accountable for what they create.
  7. Let non-engineers build with AI, but they own the results.
  8. Set clear privacy and budget rules early. Use internal tools to manage data and costs without slowing anyone down.

Start small, measure gains, and talk about what’s working. That’s how you build a team that actually benefits from AI—not one that drowns in another tool.

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.

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