DATA950: Generative AI - Foundations for Professional Excellence
Course summary:
Discover practical applications of generative AI to advance your career and drive innovation in your role. This course provides a structured framework for leveraging AI tools to enhance both individual performance and departmental effectiveness. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge to confidently integrate AI into their roles, so they can drive innovation, save time, and improve team performance. No technical background required.
This course breaks down the barriers to AI adoption through hands-on learning and real-world applications. Participants will learn how to use AI to boost creativity, increase efficiency, make data-driven decisions, solve complex problems, and improve communication.
As generative AI reshapes professional work across industries, developing practical AI skills has become essential for career advancement and organization impact. Many professionals face barriers to adopting AI, such as skills gaps, resistance to change, and uncertainty about where to begin. This course bridges theory and practice to demystify generative AI, providing professionals with the foundational knowledge, real-world examples, and hands-on experience needed to effectively use AI tools in their roles and identify strategic opportunities within their teams and departments. Emphasizing responsible implementation and critical thinking, participants will understand how and when to integrate AI into their work seamlessly.
Course Outline
- Introduction to Generative AI: Understand core capabilities and use cases to overcome misconceptions and embrace change.
- Master AI tools and techniques: Master key AI tools and prompting strategies through hands-on practice
- Enhance personal workflows: Learn to identify and optimize specific tasks and processes in your role using AI
- Recognize strategic opportunities: Develop skills to identify and evaluate potential AI applications within your team and department.
- Develop your roadmap: Create your personal AI adoption roadmap and learn to measure impact on productivity and performance.
Learner Outcomes
At the end of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Identify specific tasks and workflows where generative AI can provide immediate value.
- Confidently use AI tools to improve productivity, creativity, and decision-making.
- Translate complex data into meaningful insights for strategic action.
- Use AI to improve communication, streamline teamwork, and foster collaboration.
- Recognize strategic opportunities to apply generative AI in their team, department and organization
- Develop a tailored plan for integrating generative AI into their roles and teams
Recommendations:
Ideal for professionals across all levels and departments–including leadership, HR, marketing, sales, operations, customer service, and R&D–who want to harness the power of Generative AI to enhance their performance and position themselves as innovative problem-solvers within their organizations.
Ideal participants include:
- Individual contributors seeking to increase their productivity and strategic impact.
- Professionals looking to lead AI adoption within their teams
- Team members interested in identifying departmental opportunities for AI integration
No prior technical knowledge is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to learn.
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