Supervisor Orientation
Permission culture, the apprentice problem, the delegation equation for leaders. Two delivery modes from one deck.
Pre-session prepDone 24 h before; verified at T-15 min
- Pick the mode. Confirm with the senior leader: 30-min briefing only, or extended 2-hr joint with their builders? Adjust calendar invites accordingly. The full joint-session agenda — extended timing, Exercise C, room setup, and the optional live tool review and “Yes” criteria workshop — is published on the Course 5 page.
- Tabs & PDFs. Deck (Week 5), this pack, Executive Brief PDF, RAI Compliance Brief, the Tools page.
- If joint session: coordinate that each supervisor’s builders bring one deployed tool to demo (5 min each). Pre-share the URL list.
- Drill artefact. Have the AI-drafted memo (3 hidden hallucinations) loaded and ready to drop in chat at the M3 cue.
- Speaker notes. Press N to enable. Notes are tagged [BRIEFING] and [JOINT] — follow the right track for your mode.
Live hand-off cuesDeck-led; minimal switching
- Briefing · opener. No tool demos. Eye contact, anchor the “5–10-year apprentice problem” on the centerpiece slide.
- Briefing · AI Review Drill. Drop the memo in chat. Three minutes silent. Two minutes show-of-hands on what they caught. Reveal the planted three.
- Briefing · close. Hand each supervisor a printed copy of this pack and the 3×3 quick-ref slide. Get verbal commitment to one experiment.
- Joint · tool review. Builders drive their own screens. Supervisor sits beside them. You moderate — do not narrate the tool.
- Joint · “Yes” workshop. Pairs work in breakouts (or side-by-side). Each pair returns with a written “what gets a Yes” rule the supervisor will apply this quarter.
Exercise & activity promptsRead these to the room verbatim
Briefing · AI Review Drill (5 min). “You have an AI-drafted memo from one of your Marines. It looks polished. Three of the facts in it are wrong — confidently, fluently wrong. You have three minutes. Find them.” Reveal: the planted three are a fabricated date, a fabricated name, and a re-stated regulation that does not exist.
Briefing · The Permission Question (3 min). “Show of hands — in the last month, how many of you have told a Marine no when they wanted to use AI for a routine task? How many did not know they were doing it? Both are normal. Today is about making the call deliberately.”
Briefing · Commitment close (2 min). “Before you leave: one experiment you will run with one Marine in the next 14 days. Verbalise it now. We will follow up.”
Joint · Live Tool Review (45 min). “Each builder — five minutes. Show your tool. Tell me one thing AI did well, one thing it got wrong. Supervisor: ask one hard question. We are not approving tools today; we are calibrating taste.”
Joint · “Yes” Criteria Workshop (30 min). “Pairs — supervisor and builder. Write three rules that earn a Yes from this supervisor for AI use, and two that earn a No. Specific. No platitudes. Bring back to the room.”
Anchor phrase“Permission culture — or you will lose the next generation to the units that grant it.”When this goes sidewaysTop failure modes & recovery
- Supervisor objects: “This is just cheating.” Re-anchor on the Delegation Equation. “A capable assistant whose work you check is not cheating — it is supervision. The cheating is shipping unverified output. Today is about the verification rule.”
- Senior leader hijacks the room with policy questions. Park them: “Great question — logging it for the program lead.” Stand up the parking lot in chat. Protect the drill and the commitment close.
- Builders arrive without tools to demo (joint mode). Pivot to the Frontier Map — supervisor and builder fill it together. The Yes-criteria workshop still works without a live tool.
- Room nods politely; no commitments at the close. Force a written deliverable: each supervisor types their one experiment in chat before they leave the call. No type, no exit.
- Compliance worry derails the drill. Hand them the RAI Compliance Brief PDF. Tell them this drill is compliance — it is the verification habit RAI requires.
Post-session homeworkBoth modes — do not let the room exit without these
- One experiment in 14 days with one Marine. Defined verification rule. Report back to the program lead with what you learned.
- Read the Executive Brief PDF before your next staff meeting; bring one slide to share.
- Joint mode only: publish the “Yes” criteria you wrote with your builder to your section’s shared library by EOW.
- Protect the apprentice pipeline. Identify one junior on your team who should attend Course 2 (Builder Orientation) next cycle. Name them to the program lead.