Corporate AI training that ends in work, not certificates
If you're buying AI training for your company, the real question is what your team will do differently the week after. Here's how the options compare.
Three kinds of corporate AI training
Course libraries. Online lessons people take at their own pace. Cheap per seat, easy to roll out to hundreds of people. Good for basic literacy. Weak at changing how work gets done, because the lessons aren't about your work.
Workshops. A half-day or full-day session, often with a speaker. Good for energy and a shared vocabulary. The energy fades fast if there's nothing to go back to on Monday.
Hands-on training on your own work. Someone defines a real process with your team, builds AI to run it, and trains the team on that. Slower to start and smaller in scope. It's the one that changes what people do every week.
I do the third kind. If you need basic literacy for a few thousand people, a course library is the better buy.
What to ask any provider
- What will my team be able to do the week after training that they can't do now?
- Is the training built on our work, or on generic examples?
- Who will be able to change the setup after you leave?
- How will people share what they build with each other?
- What happens when the AI gets something wrong?
If the answers are vague, the results will be too.
The people side
Every team has someone who's uneasy about AI: worried about their job, burned by a tool that didn't work, or just tired of change. Alongside the AI work, I'm a mindset coach. I make time for those people, hear out what's actually bothering them, and help them see what AI takes off their plate rather than what it takes away. People who've been heard give a new way of working a real chance.
How my training runs
- Define one process with the people who do it.
- Build it on the tools you already pay for, and test it on one real project.
- Train the team to run it and change it, with onboarding sessions per team, a weekly check-in, one-to-one help and written best practices.
- Give them a way to share, so what one person builds is available to everyone.
At a 25-person marketing agency, this took the team from two people using AI to 22 teammates set up, with 16 shared team processes. Most of those were written by the team themselves.
Who it fits
Companies of 5 to 200 that want everyone using AI on real work, not a certificate on the wall.
Common questions
What is corporate AI training?
Training a company's staff to use AI. It ranges from online courses to hands-on training built on the company's own processes.
How is hands-on training different from a workshop?
A workshop teaches ideas. Hands-on training builds the AI into a real process first, then teaches the team to run it. People keep what they use every week.
How many people can you train at once?
I work with teams of 5 to 200, team by team.
Do you need our staff to be technical?
No. Setup is one command, and the rules the AI follows are written in plain language.