Service Description

Duration: 4 weeks Live contact time: 8 hours Format: 1 live training session + 1 practical lab each week Delivery: Online AI Foundations is designed to give you the practical skills and judgement needed to use AI more effectively in everyday work. The focus is not on becoming technical. It is on understanding what AI can do, choosing the right capability for the task, getting better results and knowing where caution or human judgement is required. What is included - Four weekly live training sessions - Four practical labs and office-hour sessions - Practical demonstrations - Guided exercises - Workplace-focused examples - Time to test prompts and work through real use cases - Guidance on privacy, information safety, accuracy and responsible AI use Week 1 | Understand AI + Safe Use Understand what modern AI can and cannot do. You will cover: - AI capabilities and limitations - The AI landscape - Choosing the right capability for the task - Privacy and security - Information safety - What should not be uploaded to AI tools - Where human judgement needs to lead Week 2 | Prompting + Communication Learn how to give AI the information and direction it needs to produce more useful work. You will cover: - Context - Audience - Tone - Constraints - Iteration - Emails - Summaries - Meetings - Everyday workplace communication Week 3 | Productivity + Administration Use AI to support the work that takes up time every day. You will cover: - Planning - Documents - Procedures - Actions - Templates - Organisation - Repetitive workplace tasks - Practical productivity use cases Week 4 | Research + Verification Learn how to use AI for research without simply trusting the answer. You will cover: - Better research questions - AI-generated errors and hallucinations - Fact checking - Verification - Reporting - Assessing the quality of an AI response - A practical role-based application By the end of the programme, you should be able to: - Use AI more confidently for everyday work - Write clearer and more effective prompts - Identify tasks where AI can genuinely save time - Use AI more effectively for communication, planning and administration - Research more carefully with AI - Check AI-generated information before relying on it - Protect sensitive information - Recognise when human judgement should lead Who is this for? AI Foundations is suitable for working professionals, entrepreneurs and individuals who want practical workplace AI skills.