AI tools are changing everyday work. This Essentials course gives learners a practical, hands-on introduction to generative AI – what it is, how to get good results from it and how to use it responsibly at work. Help your staff use AI tools well – and safely – instead of guessing.
Teams in any sector: SMEs, professional services, charities, schools, care providers and public sector teams where staff are already experimenting with AI.
- Staff are already using AI tools, but with no shared guidance
- Worries about confidential or personal data being pasted into chatbots
- Some people avoid AI entirely and others over-trust it
- Managers don’t know where AI could actually save time
- Explain what generative AI can and can’t do
- Write clear prompts to get useful results
- Use AI for everyday tasks — drafting, summarising, planning, ideas
- Check AI output for accuracy and bias
- Follow safe-use and data protection principles
- Tool-neutral — covers ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and similar
- Can include your organisation’s own AI or data policy
- Two afternoons (Wed and Fri, 1–5pm) — no full day out of the business
- Small groups — up to 12
- At our Richmond campus, at your workplace, or live online
- Practical and hands-on, led by an experienced tutor
- Safer, more consistent use of AI across the team
- Time saved on routine writing and admin
- Reduced risk of data being shared inappropriately
- A shared starting point for your AI policy
- Book individual places on a scheduled course, or book the whole course for your team
- Team bookings: at our Parkshot campus in Richmond or at your premises, on dates by arrangement
- Free pre-course check: short manager survey: current AI use, tools allowed, data rules
- Parkshot campus is a short walk from Richmond station (train, tube and Overground); parking is limited
- Contact [employer enquiries contact] for group rates