Practical AI training for real work
Practical AI training that turns hesitation into daily use
Here's the problem
Using AI well isn't one skill. It's knowing which of your tasks it's actually good for, how to ask for what you need, how to tell when the output is wrong, and how to make it part of how you work instead of a thing you try once and abandon.
None of that comes from a demo video or a license. It comes from practice — with real work, on real deadlines, with someone who can tell you when you're doing it wrong.
The tools aren't the bottleneck anymore. The training is.
Here's how we fix it
That's the whole model. Instead of watching someone else demo a tool and hoping it translates to your job later, you work with AI live — with a real instructor in the room to catch mistakes, answer the messy questions, and help you build judgment you can trust.
Small, live sessions built for discussion and hands-on practice. AI Fundamentals runs as three 90-minute sessions, spaced out so people have time to try, reflect, and come back with better questions.
Hands-on from the start. Learners work with AI during the session, discover how it behaves (including where it fails), and build the judgment to tell good output from bad — not from slides, but from doing it.
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The first step for most people — no technical background required.
Anyone who wants a clear, practical starting point for using AI at work.
Enough to make sense of what these tools are doing without turning the class into a computer science lecture.
Where it helps, where it hallucinates, and where a human still needs to slow down and check the work.
How to get better results by giving the model the right job, the right context, and the right constraints.
How to think about privacy, sensitive information, and good judgment without making the whole thing sound like compliance training.
When ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or another assistant makes sense, and when it does not matter nearly as much as people think.
Most people stop here. If you go further, next steps are AI at Work, Practitioner Electives, or an expert track.
AI Fundamentals is the right first step for most people.
Foundational - AI Essentials
Learn to use AI assistants confidently and responsibly for everyday tasks. Write effective prompts, evaluate output quality, identify responsible use boundaries, and select appropriate AI tools for your work.
Friday, May 8, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
Session 1: Fri, May 8, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
Microsoft Teams Meeting · 20 seats remaining
Practitioner - AI at Work
The Practitioner Track is a four-session series for staff who have completed AI Fundamentals and are ready to move from occasional AI use to systematic, quality-controlled integration into their daily work. Each 90-minute session builds on a single organizing discipline: assembling the right context, roles, and output definition before you start — and applying that same thinking to agent delegation, multi-step workflows, and quality review. Learners leave with repeatable AI workflows they can run independently, proven techniques for delegating tasks to productivity agents, and a practical framework for diagnosing and fixing weak outputs.
By the end of the track, participants have built at least one complete, documented workflow for a real recurring task, developed habits for validating AI outputs at the right depth for the stakes involved, and can define quality standards for AI-assisted work across their team.
Saturday, May 9, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
Session 1: Sat, May 9, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
Microsoft Teams · 20 seats remaining
Team Training
We also offer private classes, team sessions, and lunch-and-learns for organizations that want practical AI adoption, not just vendor onboarding.
If your team already has the tools but is still not really using them, that is usually where we can help.
Let's talkNo. AI Fundamentals starts from zero. If you can use email and a web browser, you are ready.
We work with the major AI tools people are already seeing at work, including ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude.
Each session builds on the last, so live attendance is best. If you miss one, reach out and we can talk through the options.
Tutorials teach buttons. We teach judgment. The difference shows up the first time you are in a real situation that does not match the tutorial.
AI Fundamentals is the right first step for most people. Three live sessions. Any role, any experience level. You will leave knowing exactly what to do next.
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