AI-Skills That Work: A Course for Professionals

You use AI at work every day – for questions, summaries, wordings. You write your own prompts or use what you saw from colleagues or in tutorials. And you still fix and check every result.

You know AI can do more, but you miss a structured approach to really get a nearly-finished deliverable instead of just helpful input and support on the task.

This course levels up your AI results: An easy-to-apply six-step workflow from beginning to end for your daily deliverables – emails, research, presentations and more - plus starting AI Automation with AI Agents etc. Verification and quality assurance are a core part throughout. All developed and tested in Strategy Consulting.

What you will learn

A six-step Standard AI Workflow to turn initial ideas into finished deliverables with AI:
From breaking down the task to briefing AI like a capable employee to refining and verifying the results. This Workflow leverages AI capabilities along the whole process to create day-to-day wok deliverables.
It works with every AI tool and the upcoming AI engine generations.

The Standard AI Workflow step-by-step applied to most common deliverables:

• Business emails – escalations, decisions and sensitive messages

• Management summaries – condensed key information and recommendations

• Research– structured questions, validated findings, results briefing

• Structuring and planning – problem statement, topic breakdown & analyses, work plan

• Presentations – storyline, key messages, slide design

• Meetings and workshops – agenda, formats, anticipation of discussions, protocol

Each chapter explains the success factors of each deliverable, builds live a complete deliverable and ends with a Take-home summary.

AI Automation with AI Agents & Assistants and AI-built Tools:

Start into further automating work tasks with AI - step-by-step building of automated solutions for typical work tasks with an example, no coding required:

• AI Assistants – Automatic execution of recurring tasks based on stored instructions and templates 

• AI-built Tools – Usable small programs built by AI e.g. for simulations, business cases or result presentations

• AI Agents – Takeover planning and executing complex multi-step work along defined objectives and guidelines

Deep dive into Quality assurance and AI error detection and prevention:

Typical weaknesses, errors and risk factors for AI mistakes. Building up on that,

• Effective techniques how to prevent AI errors before sending the first prompt

• Various verification techniques of AI results to efficiently detect and eliminate AI errors (claim checks, red-teaming and more)

The principles behind this course

• Structured Workflows, not prompts – complete paths step-by-step from task to finished deliverable, not a collection of prompts to copy

• Quality as a core skill – preventing and detecting errors of AI to ensure consistent high quality of results

• Not Tool-specific – Workflows are working with ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and others; guidance is given where free or paid accounts make a difference

• Built and proven in real consulting practice – authentic examples, case studies, typical pitfalls and lessons from real-world projects

• Building on first AI experience – built for people who already use AI and want considerably better results from it

• Take home the full workflow toolbox – Full prompts and instructions, checklists, templates etc. for all deliverables as download

By the end of this course

You will:

• Create documents, emails, research, presentations, problem structures and more at a higher quality and significantly faster than today - using the same easy six-step Standard AI Workflow

• Leverage AI as a powerful sparring partner and input provider from beginning to end working on your tasks

• Start to use AI Agents, AI Assistants and AI-built Tools to further automate your work tasks

• Effectively prevent and detect errors or mistakes of AI so that the results always hold up in front of management and clients

• Boost your professionalism at work by applying tricks and insights from strategy consulting practice

• Build your own library of workflows, prompts and quality checks that makes every next task faster

The result: AI as a powerful and reliable partner across all your tasks – visibly boosting your professional impact

Note: As a course about AI workflows, the demonstrations naturally feature AI-generated content.