AI Training
You know AI could save your team time, but you need practical training to make it happen.
These AI workshops involve structured, hands-on learning that directly relates to your work, and include workbooks filled with AI prompts to use in future.
Workshop: Introduction to AI
Not sure how to write prompts that give you useful results? This short, practical workshop teaches you a proven framework for writing effective AI prompts. You’ll learn the 3Rs prompt framework, apply it to your own projects during the session, and identify opportunities to use AI in your particular work.
You’ll also receive six months’ access to the AI Prompt Writer tool to give you extra ideas on how to use AI as part of your projects. This workshop is available for individuals or groups of up to 10 people.
Cost:
- 1:1 training: $295 + GST
- Up to 5 people: $395 + GST
- Up to 10 people: $495 + GST
This workshop is delivered online, but in-person delivery is also available on request.
Workshop: Use AI to help you write reports
The stakes are high when elected members, funders or board members are using your report to make a decision. This workshop shows you how to write credible, trustworthy reports, and different ways that AI can help you improve the quality and readability of your work.
The workshop walks through a full report writing process. You will gain clarity on what decision your report needs to focus on, who your ideal reader is, and how to build an outline to support your writing process.
You’ll explore options for using AI to help you and decide where it adds value and where you’re better off doing without it.
You will leave with a way of working that keeps your voice and your thinking at the centre of every report.
Delivery: This is a three-hour online workshop (or four hours in-person), and is supported by AI prompts at each step in the process.
Cost:
- Online: $1500 (for groups of up to 10 people)
- In person: $2,000 (for groups of up to 12 people)
Customised AI training is also available (see below).
Workshop: Use AI to help you plan engagement with stakeholders
Great engagement factors in who you are talking to and what they care about, and draws on your communication strengths. This workshop helps you bring all these elements together in a plan that works for your stakeholders, the project and you.
You will think about: your audience and what they care about, your own communication strengths and blind spots, and what feedback you will need to inform your project. You will build a community engagement plan using AI to help you.
We’ll be using AI to brainstorm ideas and then to structure your plan, but you’ll be deciding what actions to take.
Delivery: This is a three-hour online workshop (or four hours in-person), and is supported by AI prompts at each step in the process.
Cost:
- Online: $1500 (for groups of up to 10 people)
- In person: $2,000 (for groups of up to 12 people)
Customised AI training is also available (see below).
Workshop: Use AI to speed up feedback analysis
Once you have feedback from your stakeholders or wider community, you need to digest the responses and decide what to do with them. This workshop helps you make sense of the feedback, with AI helping at each step.
This workshop will help you clarify what you need to know, and what you will do with the answers you receive. We’ll look at different options for using AI to help you make sense of what comes back to you and to reflect the results in your recommendations.
Delivery: This is a three-hour online workshop (or four hours in-person), and is supported by AI prompts at each step in the process.
Cost:
- Online: $1500 (for groups of up to 10 people)
- In person: $2,000 (for groups of up to 12 people)
Customised AI training is also available (see below).
Workshop: Use AI to improve your writing without losing your voice
This workshop will open your eyes to innovative ways to use AI for editing without making your writing bland.
You will try out a series of editing prompts on sample content, to help you with both big-picture thinking to tell an engaging story and with sentence-by-sentence improvements to bring your text to life. You will also create customised instructions to help AI spot and suggest changes to language that doesn’t match your writing style.
The heart of the workshop is interweaving manual steps with AI support. You’ll come away with a strong sense of which editing steps you want to do yourself, and where AI can provide useful support.
Cost:
- Online: $1500 (for groups of up to 10 people)
- In person: $2,000 (for groups of up to 12 people)
Customised AI training is also available (see below).
Customised AI training
This involves:
- discovery (in the form of interviews and surveys)
- development of customised AI training to meet the specific needs of your team
- delivery of the training.
Cost:
The project cost depends on the level of customisation, from $2,500 to $7,000. After our initial dicussion I’ll send you a costed proposal to consider.
Example:
I worked with a business that was interested in AI training and development of an AI Policy. The steps were:
- Initial meeting with the client to understand current issues and training needs
- Development of a detailed proposal that combines my experience with using and teaching about AI and the needs of the business.
- Supply of questions for a survey of staff, and interviews with three staff members with different roles and AI experience.
- Analysis of the feedback to provide feedback on their draft AI Policy and to inform my workshop content
- Delivery of four one-hour training sessions.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need any AI experience to attend these courses?
No. All courses are designed for people at all levels, from complete beginners to those already using AI who want to go further. I walk through everything step by step.
Can these courses work with Microsoft Copilot?
Yes. I develop prompts for use in Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude.
What if my council has restrictions on AI use?
I follow strict confidentiality protocols and use only secure, appropriate AI tools for different risk levels of information. During setup, I’ll share my AI Policy with you, and I’m happy to adapt it to meet your organisation’s requirements.
Can courses be delivered in person?
Yes. All courses can be delivered online or in person, depending on your preference. In-person delivery outside of Nelson and Richmond will involve travel costs, which I’ll confirm in advance.
Want to discuss AI training for your team?
Get in touch to learn more about any of these options to help you decide what would work best for your team.
Email: debra.bradley@writingforcouncils.co.nz
Phone: 021 215 4698
