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AI Productivity Quest: From Zero to Hero

Digital Skills

Programme Overview

The AI Productivity Quest: From Zero to Hero is a hands-on, two-day AI training programme that turns everyday professionals into confident AI users. Manual, repetitive work burns hours and focus, and AI adoption is often lagging and uneven. This programme takes staff from uncertainty to mastery: they learn to use AI as a co-pilot, build real automations that cut wasted time and improve accuracy, and return measurable hours to the business.

Key Takeaways

  • A hands-on, two-day AI training programme for everyday professionals, with no technical background needed.
  • Takes staff from AI uncertainty to confident, practical use across real work.
  • Participants build their own AI Productivity Playbook and a working automation.
  • Ends with a capstone lab: apply AI to a real task and measure the hours saved.
  • Includes a 30/60/90-day adoption plan and a SOLS smart Certificate of Completion.

Training Objective

To take staff from uncertainty to mastery with AI: to reframe AI as a co-pilot, build practical skills across everyday work, automate repetitive tasks, and embed responsible AI habits that return measurable hours to the business.

Learning Outcomes

  • Reframe AI as a co-pilot and identify where it can take over low-value work.
  • Write clear, effective prompts and use everyday AI tools for real tasks.
  • Use AI to craft presentations and handle difficult communication.
  • Turn messy data into clear, insightful summaries and dashboards.
  • Run more efficient meetings with AI-generated notes and action items.
  • Build a simple automation that handles a repetitive workflow.
  • Apply AI responsibly, aware of hallucinations, bias and data-privacy risks.

Programme Content

Module 1: The AI Mindset

Storytelling, poll, hands-on deconstruction
  • Reframing AI from threat to co-pilot: the augmentation, not replacement philosophy
  • Demystifying generative AI (the smartest, fastest intern analogy)
  • Myth versus reality: AI replaces tasks, not people
  • The human versus AI strengths chart, and AI's limits (hallucinations, bias, garbage-in garbage-out)

Module 2: Everyday AI Productivity Tools

Live hands-on practice
  • A tour of everyday AI tools for work
  • The 15-Minute Productivity Gauntlet: using AI on real tasks
  • Drafting emails, summaries and documents with AI
  • First wins: getting a useful result fast

Module 3: AI for Communication

Workshop and role-play
  • Crafting clear, compelling presentations with AI
  • Drafting and refining professional messages
  • Preparing for and simulating difficult conversations
  • Adapting tone for different audiences

Module 4: AI for Data Handling

Guided hands-on practice
  • Turning messy data into clear summaries
  • Using AI to analyse and interpret information
  • Building simple dashboards and visuals
  • Asking better questions of your data

Module 5: AI-Powered Collaboration

Team activity
  • Running hyper-efficient meetings
  • Instantly generating notes and action items
  • Sharing prompts and workflows across a team
  • Shifting the focus from I to we

Module 6: Automating Repetitive Workflows

Build workshop
  • Spotting the tasks worth automating
  • Building your first Autobot: a simple automation
  • Connecting tools so work runs in the background
  • Moving from using tools to building systems

Module 7: Ethics, Risks & Governance

Discussion and guided practice
  • Hallucinations and the never trust, always verify rule
  • Bias and reviewing outputs for fairness
  • Data privacy: what never to paste into public AI tools
  • Corporate-safe AI use and governance

Module 8: Capstone: Productivity Lab & Action Plan

Capstone lab and showcase
  • The Admin Audit: baseline your most time-consuming tasks
  • Apply AI to one real task from start to finish
  • Present a before-and-after showcase with real ROI
  • Build your 30/60/90-day adoption action plan

Key Features

  • Hands-on from the start: the 15-Minute Productivity Gauntlet has participants using AI on real tasks (emails, summaries) in the first session.
  • Build your own AI Productivity Playbook: a personal manual of prompts, frameworks and automations you keep and share.
  • Build a working automation (an Autobot) that runs a repetitive task for you in the background.
  • A capstone Productivity Lab where you apply AI to one of your own real tasks and present a measurable before-and-after.
  • Balanced and responsible: covers hallucinations, bias, data privacy and governance so staff use AI safely.
  • A post-programme adoption plan with 30, 60 and 90-day manager check-ins and ROI reporting.

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