The one-hour AI approval workshop your managers actually need

AI approval is now a management skill. Almost nobody has trained for it.

AI risk assessment for managers - a step-by-step workshop for non-technical teams

There’s a job that almost every mid-sized organisation has quietly handed to people who weren’t asked if they wanted it: AI gatekeeper. Someone has to say yes or no when a team member wants to start using an AI writing tool, or an AI scheduling assistant, or an AI that reads CVs. In most companies right now, that someone is a mid-level manager with no technical background, a full diary, and no training whatsoever for the decision they’re being asked to make.

I’ve started thinking about what a genuinely useful one-hour workshop for that person would look like. Not a compliance lecture. Not a slide deck about large language models. Something that would actually change how they make the next approval decision.

Here’s what I’d build.