Your Team Uses AI to Ship Faster – Here’s How You Can Use It to Lead Smarter

ByJossie Haines

Engineering leaders are losing 5–10 hours a week to leadership admin work—executive updates, 1:1 prep, performance reviews, and roadmap cleanup. Learn how simple AI workflows can automate these tasks, reduce overwhelm, and give you more time for strategic leadership.

Your calendar is already packed with back-to-back meetings, but there’s another time drain you might not be tracking:

Leadership admin work.

Those 5-10 hours a week that disappear into tasks like:

Sunday night: Writing Monday’s exec update (there goes an hour)
Between meetings: Rushing through 1:1 prep notes
After the planning session: Turning messy whiteboard ideas into a coherent roadmap
Thursday evening: Finally getting to those performance review drafts
Friday: Summarizing this week’s decisions for the team

It adds up fast. And unlike your meetings, this work happens in the margins: early mornings, evenings, weekends, stealing time from strategic thinking or, frankly, your personal life.

The irony? Your team is using AI to ship code faster, but you’re still manually crafting every status update.

What if you could compress that 5-10 hours into 1-2 hours?

I’ve been working with engineering leaders who’ve done exactly that using AI, not by adding another tool to learn, but with simple templates that work with whatever AI tool you’re already familiar with.

The result? They’re getting the same high-quality communication output in a fraction of the time, with more headspace for the leadership work that actually matters.

I’ve documented exactly how in a new guide: “4 AI Workflows Every Engineering Leader Should Automate This Quarter.”

Inside, you’ll get:

  • The RACE Framework for consistently great AI output (no “perfect prompts” needed)
  • 4 copy-paste templates for your biggest time drains
  • How to start saving time in your very next update
  • Quality control tips so the output actually sounds like you

​Download the free guide here →​

These workflows are designed for leaders with zero extra time to spare. You can test the first one on your next executive update and see the difference immediately.

DM me on LinkedIn and let me know: what other leadership workflows are eating up your time that you’d love to see automated? I read every response and use your feedback to create the most helpful content.

Your strategic thinking is too valuable to spend on status update formatting.

These templates include everything you need to get started, including how to handle sensitive company data responsibly.

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