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Where the hours go: a free team time audit
A team time audit shows where everyone's hours go, and this one fits in a 30-minute staff meeting. Each person lists the repeated tasks that fill their week and how long each takes. Together you see the total, and which tasks are worth handing to AI first.
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Your team, together
a week on repeated tasks. .
From:
Start here
The same steps every time, and no private details. Good first tasks to hand to AI.
Later, with your champion
Mostly routine, or they use private details. Worth setting up with rules first.
Keep with a person
Different every time. These need your judgment.
A three-week plan for your champion
Pick one person to own this, and protect two hours a week for them.
- Week 1. Take the top task under "Start here". One person tries handing it to an AI assistant, and notes how long it took.
- Week 2. Write down what worked as shared instructions, plus what never goes into an AI tool. Two or three more people try it.
- Week 3. Decide where the time you got back will go. Pick a second task. Run this exercise again and compare.
Keep the team's work in one place
Ember Work keeps every task in a project, where it can have an owner and a due date. Nothing lives in one person's head.
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