From the course: How to Be an Agent Boss: Leading AI Agents at Work
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Delegate tasks to agents: Calibrate autonomy and oversight
From the course: How to Be an Agent Boss: Leading AI Agents at Work
Delegate tasks to agents: Calibrate autonomy and oversight
As you prepare your agent, focus on defining its operating model. It's not just about handing off tasks, it's about shaping the interaction, calibrating autonomy, and running regular tests to ensure that the agent amplifies your impact. Have you ever caught yourself repeating the same manual steps and wished there must be a smarter way, so you could focus on the projects that actually mattered most? Building the mindset of, could an AI agent actually assist here, takes time, but it's a skill you can develop through practice, and once in place, it creates a space to concentrate on those higher value work. Agents aren't just tools running in the background. Some could join meetings, send emails, produce documents, chat with a team, and even contribute directly to your workflows. It's important to build trust when these agents are used. Communicate clearly when agents are involved and set the expectations up front so your colleagues understand their intent. When building your agent, it's…
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