The AI Productivity Advantage (Levels 1 & 2):

Ideal for those new to AI or who have been dabbling with basic use cases, this level introduces foundational concepts, core tools, and the essentials of prompt engineering to help you confidently begin integrating AI into everyday work

Introduction: Meet AI—Your Ultra-Smart, Always-Available Intern Ready to Lighten the Load

• A Review of Your Corporate AI Policy.  Throughout this session we’ll reinforce your AI policy/ guidelines and promote best practices to ensure that participants understand how to use AI responsibly and ethically.
• A Quick Overview of Large Language Models and the rapidly evolving AI Landscape.
• A Focus on Productivity. Three key personal productivity principles to ensure your “AI intern” is actually enhancing performance (and not just a shiny new time waster).

Prompt Engineering: The new meta-skill to future-ready your personal productivity (applicable to all AI tools —Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)

• The PRIMER 6-Step Framework for Crafting Effective Prompts: Get better output, faster, by mastering prompt design.
• Hands-On Practice: Applying prompts directly to your own work tasks for instant impact.
• Tips for Power Prompting. Key best practices to help your prompts generate high quality output (that doesn’t sound like AI).

Saving time with AI: Apply AI to your current workload –  to do some things faster (and a little better).

• “Prompt Party” Collaboration: Experience a fun, interactive exercise where everyone shares their favorite AI prompts, discovering new use-cases and creative ways to save time.
• Overcome “blank page” paralysis using AI prompts to get started, create, edit and complete quality work – reports, presentations, proposals, etc. –  far more quickly.
• From information overload to clarity: Identifying where AI can help you gather, organize and summarize information.
• Hands-on application and practice, using the AI tool of your choice.

Strategic AI: Elevate Your Work, Using AI as a Strategic Thought Partner.

• Next-Level, AI-First Thinking: Practice using AI to amplify your strategic thinking, planning and Innovation. This plants the seeds for continued growth, sparks ideas for applying AI and positions you perfectly for Level 2.
• Explore Emerging AI Tools: A brief overview of Emerging AI tools, giving you a glimpse of what’s on the horizon and sparking ideas for how they might be adopted in your role and organization.

Action Plan: Your 30 Day AI Productivity Sprint.

• Crafting an easy to implement (10 minutes/day) AI Learning Roadmap to put you ahead of the curve and gain a career boosting AI Productivity Advantage.

Designed for those who are already applying prompt engineering/frameworks consistently to their work, this level delves deeper into strategic use-cases and refined prompting techniques to drive more impactful results.

Intro to Level 2:

• A reminder of corporate policy & guidelines.
• A quick review of prompt frameworks.

Advanced Prompt Engineering for Strategic Work

• AI as Your Strategic Thinking Partner: Techniques to gain new perspectives and get richer insights.
• Unleashing Innovation: Prompts to help you to generate fresh ideas and novel solutions.
• Your Prompt Library. How to organize your prompts so that you can find, revise, re-use and share them.

More best practices to enhance Your AI Productivity Advantage

• Prompt Party: A fun, interactive exercise where everyone shares their favorite AI prompts, inspiring new use-cases and creative ways to save time.
• Better Meetings: Using AI meeting tools to increase focus during meetings, capture action steps, and reduce time spent in meetings by at least 10%.

Your AI Advantage Action Plan: Sustaining your competitive edge

• Key productivity practices to help you apply AI to achieve greater focus and agility, increased energy and better results.
• Action Planning: Mapping out clear, actionable next steps for your ongoing AI learning journey.