The AI Productivity Advantage for Leaders (Levels 1 & 2):

Using AI tools to achieve a more strategic focus, increase personal productivity and future-ready your Team.

AI, arguably the largest tech change we’ve ever seen, is here to stay. We either embrace AI now to gain advantage, or risk being left behind in a world that won’t wait.

This course will help you cut through the AI overwhelm and get future-ready fast. You’ll walk away with practical tools that you can start using right away to lead more strategically and take your own personal productivity to a whole new level. And collaborating with your peers will enable you to connect, share insights and reinvent what’s possible in your organization, team and career !

This content is offered at two distinct levels, each tailored to a different stage of AI proficiency. Each level can be facilitated in a two hour virtual or three hour in-person session. While it’s ideal to present both levels in sequence, approximately 30–60 days apart, each session can also stand alone. Whichever option you choose, expect an engaging experience filled with collaborative, hands-on practice—so you can immediately put AI techniques into action and build your confidence step by step.

The AI practices covered are applicable across popular tools like Ms Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, with content adjusted to comply with and reinforce your organization’s AI policy and guidelines.

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Level 1: Your Kickstart to an Unprecedented level of Leadership Productivity

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 for Future-ready Leaders. (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: Creating prompts to use on your own work tasks for immediate learning application.
  • Tips for Power Prompting: Key best practices to help you design great prompts that will generate the results you want.

Strategic Focus with AI: Elevating your work to the next level

  • AI-First Leadership Thinking: We’ll share some amazing examples of AI applied to strategic work, opening eyes, and sparking ideas (Most of us have no idea of what AI is truly capable of in terms of strategic work).
  • Hands-On Practice: Getting a start with prompts designed for strategic work: innovation, planning, developing teams, etc. This sets the stage for more advanced applications in Part 2.

AI Time Savings: Doing some things faster = more time for Strategic Work

  • A “Prompt Party”: An engaging, interactive exercise where everyone shares their favorite AI prompts, discovering new use-cases and productive applications of AI.
  • Overcome “blank page” paralysis using AI prompts to get started, create, edit and complete quality work – reports, presentations, proposals, etc. –  far more quickly.
  • Hands-on application and practice, using the AI tool of your choice.

Action Plan: Your 30-Day Strategic AI Sprint

  • Develop a personalized 30-day action plan to incorporate AI into your leadership role, using 10 minutes a day to gain a career-boosting productivity edge.
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Level 2: Beyond Basics - AI Mastery for Strategic Impact

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

Lead Team AI Productivity

  • Support your Team’s AI Productivity and enhance team/enterprise AI scalability through the use of a prompt library, a shared prompt framework and Team Prompt Parties.
  • Help your team comply with your AI policy/ guidelines and support them with best practices to use AI responsibly and ethically.

AI as Your Strategic Thinking Partner

  • AI is far more than just a time saver – it’s an incredible tool to amplify your strategic thinking and innovation too. Understanding how AI can be used to gain fresh insights, think more strategically and innovate.
  • Advanced Prompting: We’ll dive into more sophisticated ways to ask AI questions that push your thinking and bring more value to the table.

AI as Your Executive Coach

  • Using AI to reflect, gain perspective, and identify specific next steps to grow as a leader.
  • Coaching & developing your team: Leverage AI to improve conversations, and better develop and delegate to your team.

More Use-cases and Practices to enhance Your AI Productivity Advantage

  • Better meetings: Automatically summarize and analyze meeting transcripts to capture key takeaways and actions. (and reduce some meeting time!)
    Key productivity practices to help you use AI to increase focus on strategic priorities and drive results.

Your AI Advantage Action Plan: Sustaining your competitive edge.

  • Mapping out clear, actionable next steps for your ongoing AI learning journey.
Doug Heidebrecht

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