AI prepares your one-on-ones, keeps the decision log for your meetings, and lets you rehearse a difficult conversation. Listening, deciding, and evaluating a person remain your job.
AI helps team managers with tasks such as “Prepare a one-on-one,” “Practice a corrective feedback conversation,” and “Send the decision log from the team meeting.” Start with a single task, in Claude: allow 10 minutes the first time, and always review the result before you use it.
For each task: how it goes today, then with the tool. And the time it takes the first time.
TodayThe weekly one-on-one gets prepared in the hallway, turns into task tracking, and the real topics never come up.
With ClaudeA thirty-minute agenda, with open-ended questions and feedback worded around facts.
ChatGPT · Voice mode
TodayYou put the conversation off for weeks, then handle it too harshly or too vaguely, and nothing changes.
With ChatGPTA conversation rehearsed out loud, then specific feedback on your wording before the real meeting.
Granola · “Enhanced” tab
TodayYou run the meeting and take the notes at the same time: you do both badly, and the log goes out the following week.
With GranolaA one-page decision log, sent the same day, with your own commitments listed separately.
Also
Claude · Incognito chat
Your notes from the year sorted by goal, the gaps to fill, and five questions for the review.
Four clear, measurable, verifiable goals to discuss with your team member.
Gemini Notebook · An “Internal rules” notebook
The rule that applies, backed by the article of the agreement, or a clear referral to human resources.
Microsoft Copilot · “Recap” tab, in Teams
The meeting’s decisions and the list of what is expected of your team, to check and then pass on.
Gamma · “Paste”
A six-slide presentation, faithful to your text, that exports to PowerPoint.
Claude · Word file, in the conversation
A three-month onboarding plan, with the detailed schedule for the first week.
What to check
No name, health condition, or personal situation of a team member in an assistant. It knows only what you write about the person: it helps you prepare, it does not evaluate.
Prepare a one-on-oneClaudeThe prompt to copy
I manage a team of [number] people in [job]. I am preparing a thirty-minute one-on-one with a team member. Context: [time in the role, current assignments, what is going well, what worries me]. At the last one-on-one, we agreed on: [commitments on both sides]. Suggest an agenda in four parts: how they are doing and what is holding them back, progress on their work, specific feedback from me, what they need from me. For each part, give two open-ended questions. Word the feedback I want to give them on [situation] with observed facts, the effect it had, and a clear request. Make no judgment about the person: you do not know them.
In Nova, “My path” starts from your level: one next step at a time.
The first moves, with free tools.
In your jobAnswer a question about internal rules
In your jobPrepare a one-on-one
In your jobPractice a corrective feedback conversation
For a team: everyone moves forward in their own job. You see the team’s progress, never one person’s activity.
It turns your notes into a one-on-one agenda, helps you word clear goals, and writes the onboarding plan for a new hire.
Recommended planFree to try, with no team member names. At a company: Team, $25 per user per month ($20 if billed yearly).
It takes the notes for the team meeting with no bot in the call. You run the meeting, and the decision log goes out the same day.
Recommended planBasic, $0. Notes older than 30 days are visible only with Business, $14 per user per month.
It plays the team member across from you, out loud: you rehearse corrective feedback or a difficult announcement before the real conversation.
Recommended planFree to start. Plus, $20 per month, if you use it every day.
Remote work agreement, employee handbook, time-off and expense rules in a single notebook: you answer the team with the exact passage.
Recommended planFree: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 questions per day. Included in the company’s Google Workspace plans.
You paste your monthly update, and it lays out the presentation for the leadership team. Export to PowerPoint.
Recommended planFree, $0, to try it: 400 credits that do not refill. Then: Plus, €8 per user per month, billed yearly (€96).
If the company runs on Microsoft 365: in Teams, the “Recap” tab summarizes the meeting you missed and lists the action items that were decided.
Recommended planMicrosoft 365 Copilot Business, €15.60 excl. tax per user per month, annual commitment
Prices taken from the vendors’ official pages, dated on each tool page. These subscriptions are not included in Nova. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.
Nova recommends 6 to start with: Claude, Granola, ChatGPT, Gemini Notebook, Gamma, and Microsoft Copilot. 5 of them can be used for free to get started.
Yes. It plays the team member across from you, out loud: you rehearse corrective feedback or a difficult announcement before the real conversation. The plan to choose: Free to start. Plus, $20 per month, if you use it every day.
With “Prepare a one-on-one,” in Claude. Allow 10 minutes the first time. A thirty-minute agenda, with open-ended questions and feedback worded around facts.
No. Nova is software, not an accredited training provider: it issues no diploma or certification. It costs €19 per month for one person, and €129 per month for a team of up to ten people.