AI Team Skills Map
At the start of a project, a team works through a conversation with an AI that acts as a teammate. It asks about the project, then asks each person to name their skills, then asks how the team could split the work given those skills. The conversation ends with a table of names, skills and possible tasks, which the team edits and adopts.
Use at a project kick-off when a new or mixed team needs to plan who does what based on what people can actually do.
Solves: Tasks get assigned by who volunteers first, not by who is best placed, and hidden skills stay hidden.
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Step 1: One person pastes the team-structure prompt into an AI chat and shares their screen (2 min).
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Step 2: Describe the project in detail when the AI asks (5 min).
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Step 3: Each member names their skills and relevant experience; the typist enters them (8-10 min).
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Step 4: Discuss how to organise tasks around those skills; ask the AI for suggestions only if stuck (8-10 min).
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Step 5: Have the AI produce the table, then edit it as a team until everyone agrees with their row (5-10 min).
- Ask people to name skills outside their job title too. That is where the surprises are.
- The team owns the final table, not the AI. Change anything that does not fit.
- Point out gaps the table reveals: skills nobody has that the project needs.
- Do the skills round without AI on sticky notes first, then let the AI propose a split for comparison.