Course Overview
AI
Starting Small: Identifying Practical Tasks AI Can Help You With
This course helps participants spot repetitive, rules-based tasks in their own workflow and turn them into small, testable AI use cases. Learners will be guided through use cases to help them identify their own relevant work processes and then decompose it into micro-tasks, craft clear prompts, and achieve saved time with accurate outputs.
Why this course matters
- Common, low-risk use cases are well-established entry points that help hesitant users or slow adopters see quick wins.
- Businesses report efficiency gains when AI is properly applied to generative creation, process improvement, project coordination, and data analysis.
- Structured prompting and iterative refinement practices build safe, repeatable habits.
- All employees have several mundane internal user processes that are prime AI candidates to free time for higher-value work.
Who should attend
- Anyone new to AI that needs practical examples of AI in use in order to help accelerate their adoption.
- Administrators and support staff seeking practical, low-risk AI wins.
What you’ll learn
- Task Spotting Framework - Simple strategies to identify repetitive, rules-based tasks that AI can safely handle first.
- Task Decomposition - How to break a workflow into tiny, testable micro-tasks with clear success criteria.
- Prompt Patterns that Work - Use a standardized prompt method to get consistent results.
- Mode Testing - Compare outputs across multiple large language models (LLMs) and know how to pick the best AI tool for the job.
- Email & Meeting Accelerators - Summarize threads, extract action items, and draft replies/minutes from notes.
- Document & Spreadsheet Helpers - Draft outlines, generate tables, and simple formulas.
- Research Capture & Synthesis - Pull key points from long reads or found sources and convert them into checklists or briefs.
- Your Personal AI Starter Pack - Package prompts and test cases for tasks identified in your own personal workflow.
Practical applications
- Improve handling and efficiency on routine tasks like email hygiene and triage, daily objectives planning, and meeting summaries.
- Sift through large amounts of data and extract key points and insights rapidly.
- Utilize AI to fully draft reports or large sections of text with minimal effort.