A first-year on your team produces fast, polished work — but in a client meeting yesterday they couldn't explain a number in their own analysis. You suspect they're outsourcing the thinking to AI. Their first performance review is in a month. How do you handle the next few weeks?

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

A first-year on your team produces fast, polished work — but in a client meeting yesterday they couldn't explain a number in their own analysis. You suspect they're outsourcing the thinking to AI. Their first performance review is in a month. How do you handle the next few weeks?

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