AI for Beginners
From beginner to confidently integrating AI tools into everyday work tasks, these set of workshops equips the learner with all the skills needed to add AI power to your work life.
Overview
Skills to Advance Initiative
This course is only available to those currently in employment and fully funded under the Skills to Advance initiative.
Skills to Advance is a national initiative that provides upskilling and reskilling opportunities to employees in jobs undergoing change and to those currently employed in vulnerable sectors. Skills to Advance aims to equip employees with the skills they need to progress in their current role or to adapt to the changing job market. Working closely with small and medium-sized enterprises, Skills to Advance helps employers identify skills needs and invest in their workforce by providing subsidised education and training to staff.
Expression of Interest
We plan on starting this course, end August 2025 (exact dates TBC), but if you represent a company that is interested in undertaking this course, please complete the form below and a member of our Enterprise Engagement Team will be in contact to discuss your needs:
Course Content
If you're ready to go from beginner to confidently integrating AI tools into your everyday work tasks, then you are in the right place. Absolutely no experience is needed for this course which will equip you with all the skills you need to add some AI power to your work life.
Learners must have the basic paid version of ChatGPT/Copilot/Claude to undertake this course.
This hands-on programme offers live demos, real world applications and a supportive community of like-minded people.
We remove the technical jargon and focus on what you need to know RIGHT now.
Session 1: From Zero to Hero
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Master the basics and get your first glimpse into the true power of AI. Gain confidence using LLMs for strategy, research, writing, and reports.
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Understanding AI for Non-Technical People: understand how it all works – without the need for a masters in deep learning! AI concepts in simple terms for beginners.
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Free versus Paid. Get to know the landscape of tools you can use. Which ones work best for different tasks. Reasoning models, demystified.
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Prompt Writing: types, formats, and structures - from simple to advanced for reasoning models, this will give you better results than you’ve seen before.
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Productivity App: remote meetings for summarisation and video transcripts.
Session 2: Research & Content Creation
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With a basic understanding of how it all works, we’ll be building on this foundation with some powerful applications for AI to support you in completing tasks and freeing up time.
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Deep Research & Agents plus Perplexity - stop Googling, start prompting
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ontent: words and images. And if you love this, you might be interested to join our marketing track for more on content marketing and repurposing.
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Privacy & Policy: staying compliant with GDPR and EU AI Act. Ethics in AI.
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Productivity App: business graphics(flowcharts, process diagrams, timelines) in seconds.
Session 3: Data Analysis
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Data Sources: how to ensure data privacy, redacting methods, and GDPR compliance
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Data Analysis: practical and hands-on analysis from your data
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Data Visualisation: like you have never seen before.
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Productivity App: Slide deck makers powered by AI.
Session 4: Knowledge Bases, GPTs and Planning
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Now that you are effectively using AI tools every day, we'll take a look at how you can develop your own ones for specific tasks using your proprietary data, enabling you to create better quality outputs with minimal effort.
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Knowledge Bases: build a personalised AI trained on your own company data.
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Prompts and GPTs for Proposals, Award Applications, RFPs and more.
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Budgeting, Planning and Next Steps.
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Productivity App: landing page builder