Managers are often over-employed, working well over the standard 40 hours per week. Part of that is because managers are tasked with juggling more team members, clients, and tasks than ever before. However, the largest culprit of used time is communicating. In fact, a study found that managers spend 90% of their day communicating. Yet, 71% of employees think that their managers need to spend more time explaining goals and plans.
AI tools can help managers buyback their time while keeping the same or higher levels of efficiency. Here are 7 AI tools managers are using to buyback time:
Delphi
Using Delphi, you can build a digital clone of yourself that is trained on your unique insights, experiences, and expertise. For a manager, you could delegate your clone to handle communication in your company’s Slack, ask your employees to ask your clone questions before coming to you with questions and use your clone to support training new hires.
Your clone allows your team to get your responses without needing your time, giving you time back to have fewer but more meaningful check-ins with team members, time to work on new projects, or less time spent at work.
Wordtune
As a manager, you draft a lot of emails, instant messages, and briefs. Wordtune uses AI to automatically check your grammar and spelling, offering writing suggestions with syntax, rewrites, and restructures. This tool helps ensure that your writing is clear, concise, and correct, allowing you to breathe easier knowing there aren’t mistakes and spend less time rereading and editing.
Clockwise
Clockwise is a calendar assistant that leverages AI to optimize your work schedule. Instead of spending time manually mapping out your calendar, this tool automatically plans out your ideal day by building an optimized schedule around work, breaks, and meetings. Managers can also use Clockwise with their teams to ensure that their employees are working the most efficiently.
Zapier
With dozens of different apps, platforms, and programs, it can get time-consuming to toggle between them all. Zapier helps connect all these tools by creating workflows between them so that the apps, platforms, and programs can all work together. You can even integrate Delphi with Zapier t
o automate tasks such as automatically sending an email or Slack message when a task is completed, sending a follow-up message to an employee after an interaction with your clone, or scheduling calendar events based on interactions or tasks managed by your clone.
ClickUp
As a manager, you spend a significant amount of your time ensuring that projects are organized and kept on track. ClickUp is an AI-powered project management system that allows teams to plan, track, and collaborate all in one place. By having all aspects of a project organized and optimized on one platform, managers require less time to keep their fingers on the pulse of a project.
Fireflies
Fireflies is your virtual meeting personal assistant. This AI notetaker transcribes and summarizes meetings, making it simple for managers to be more present in meetings, skim notes from previous meetings, review action items discussed on a call, filter for key topics on a call, and send links to recordings and transcriptions to employees that were unable to attend.
SaneBox
Many managers get hundreds, if not thousands, of emails per week. SaneBox manages and organizes your email inbox on your behalf. Using AI, SaneBox sorts emails into set categories, gives you follow-up reminders, digest overviews, a snooze button to hide work emails over the weekend, and automatically unsubscribes you from pesky sends to those you’ve already unsubscribed.
AI Tools are Helping Managers
Managers spend an enormous amount of their productive work time communicating. AI tools are helping managers to buyback their time while increasing efficiency. If you have questions about how AI tools can save you time, ask our Co-Founder Dara’s clone any questions or jump in and start training your Delphi clone.