Senior software leaders: Have you found a way to use GenAI to help you manage people more effectively? Any tips or hacks for new leaders in the industry?

You can use ZOOM AI assistant to track and keep minutes of the team meetings, and to provide summaries afterwards.

GenAI like ChatGPT or Germini can be used effectively to increase the productivity of the software development practitioners in the team, by letting these GenAI tools to automatically produce programming code for simple tasks. Hence, the team resources as above can be utilized for more advanced and creative software development and engineering solutions.

From the point of view of people management, I've found GenAI (in my case, MS Copilot and the ChatGPT plus) to be very helpful in keeping track of one-on-one check-in meetings with my direct reports. Since all of my meetings are remote on Teams, I use Copilot for a detailed summary of the meeting and then enter the Copilot output into ChatGPT to, basically, summarize the summary.

I end up with 3 to 5 bullet points in a couple of minutes that are completer and more concise than my note taking. And it's also easy to copy a year's worth of these notes back into ChatGPT to help with annual reviews.

Emphasis on "help," though. It's just a tool, not a replacement. GenAI does misunderstand things and need to be corrected. But it also surfaces things that I otherwise would have missed or forgotten, especially in the annual.