Team Session 3: Cognitive offloading | Team Cognitive Health Playbook

Before the session

Read Days 22, 24 and 26 (about five minutes each), or Module 3 on the cheat sheet.

0–5 minOpen
Quick round: one thing you now do with a tool that you used to do in your head.
5–15 minDiscuss three days
- Day 22: Hand off the chore, not the core.Which tasks do we hand off because they're easy to offload, when the stakes say they need a check?
- Day 24: The tool said so. So it's right?Where have we taken a green tick or a quiet tool as the all-clear, and what could it have missed?
- Day 26: Know your core.Which five to eight skills can this team not afford to lose, and which of them lives in only one head?
15–25 minExercise: Sort the offloading
Each person lists the tasks they now hand to AI or other tools. Sort them into Day 22's three columns: offload freely, offload and check, keep human. Circle anything sitting in the wrong column today.
25–30 minAction for the week
Each person picks one core skill from today's list, does one small piece of real work without AI, then compares with what the AI would have done.
Agree the team rule: “Offload by risk, not by convenience.”

Treating offloading as a weakness (Day 21). People have always used tools to think, so keep the talk on stakes and skills.

A whiteboard or shared doc with three columns, and a timer.

Next session: Module 4 · Focus & deep work. Bring the core skills list and one note on how the tool-free practice went.