Impruve for Team Managers: Let Impruve's AI-Sidekick Lighten Your Load
Author: Mike Shannon, CEO & Co-Founder at Impruve
Feeling overwhelmed by the endless responsibilities on your plate as a team manager? You're not alone. But no worries—Impruve’s AI-sidekick is here to help. Think of it as a virtual employee, working behind the scenes to organize tasks, manage meetings, and take things off your plate so you can focus on what truly matters: leading your team effectively.
Here’s how Impruve’s AI-sidekick, affectionately named Koach, supports you by playing both offense (doing things for you) and defense (keeping you out of the fray) based on our Taxonomy of North Star Execution.
Your Foundation: The Two Essential Features
At the core of Impruve’s power for individuals and managers alike are two foundational features:
- Auto-Capture and Manage Your To-Do List
- Consult on Your Calendar Design
These two tools form the basis of effective time and task management, allowing you to streamline your day and stay on top of what’s important. Let’s dive in.
Auto-Capture To-Do’s: Never Miss a Task
If you’re familiar with Getting Things Done (GTD), you know the first habit is capturing tasks. Impruve makes this effortless.
With Impruve turned on, you’ll never have to worry about missing another to-do item. Koach automatically tracks and organizes tasks from meetings, emails, and other interactions. Each week, Koach provides a summary of your progress, ensuring that the High Importance, Low Urgency tasks (per the Eisenhower Matrix) don’t slip through the cracks.
Want to take it to the next level? Add your goals/OKRs to your Impruve “Knowledge Base”, and watch as the AI-sidekick intelligently uses this context to prioritize your tasks. As with all aspects of Impruve, the purpose is to eliminate Execution Leak.
Plus, there’s no need to add extra bots or apps. Impruve works seamlessly in the background, pulling key takeaways from your Zoom Cloud Recordings. Sit back and let Koach auto-organize your meeting takeaways and tasks, making it your extended brain.
Calendar Designed: Let Impruve Plan Your Week
You’ve heard the saying: Plan your work, then work your plan. But by the time Friday rolls around, we’re often exhausted. Impruve can take the load off by drafting your schedule for the upcoming week.
Want to fine-tune it? Let Impruve know your energy peaks—whether you’re an early bird or a night owl—and it will protect your most productive hours for your most demanding tasks. You can also take a walk and reflect with Koach, giving it more context to help plan your week based on what’s top of mind for you.
For Team Managers: Level Up Your Leadership
Once these foundational tools are in place, Impruve helps you elevate your role as a manager, keeping your team aligned with the North Star goals and freeing you to focus on high-level strategy and leadership.
Here’s how:
Meeting Management Made Simple
Just as Impruve auto-captures your tasks, it also helps manage your meetings. Koach will propose meeting agendas, suggest new items based on your goals, and track which agenda items were completed or need follow-up. This ensures every meeting is productive and aligned with your objectives.
Calendar Scheduling: Hands-Free Planning
Impruve can go beyond simply recommending your schedule—it can propose and even schedule meetings and workblocks for you based on observations from workplace communications (like Slack or Zoom). This takes another layer of admin work off your plate, freeing you to focus on leadership.
Communications: Nurturing Culture & Coaching
At Impruve, we categorize communications into two buckets: Culture Comms and Coaching Comms.
- Culture Comms: These are the affirmations, moments of gratitude, and preemptive encouragements that help foster a positive workplace culture. Your AI-sidekick will remind you, draft messages, and ensure you never fall behind in this high-importance aspect of leadership.
- Coaching Comms: On the coaching side, Koach will help you maintain a good balance between constructive and positive feedback. It will also keep track of topics discussed with team members, ensuring alignment with the company’s North Star (goals, OKRs, etc.).
Talk to Your AI-Sidekick: Walk & Reflect
Finally, Impruve offers Talk Tracks—specialized, executive-coaching conversations you can have with Koach. Need to untangle your thoughts? Go for a walk, press "Talk," and let the conversation flow. There’s no need to take notes—Koach will capture and organize any tasks or insights that emerge during your reflection, automatically entering them into your system.
In Summary: Whether you're juggling meetings, coaching a team, or trying to stay on top of countless to-do's, Impruve’s AI-sidekick is designed to make your life as a manager easier. Let it organize, capture, schedule, and coach—so you can focus on what truly matters: leading your team toward success.