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AI Prompt Engineering for the Workplace
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
AI Prompt Engineering for the Workplace
- Duration
- Half Day (4 hrs)
- Tuition
- $395.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
A bad prompt does not fail. It returns something plausible.
Most people asking AI for help are getting mediocre output and concluding the tool is mediocre. The gap between a vague request and a well-constructed one is enormous, and it is entirely learnable in an afternoon.
The failure mode is what makes this worth training. A bad prompt does not return an error. It returns something confident, plausible, and subtly wrong, and the person who does not know what good looks like accepts it. Then they spend twenty minutes fixing what should have taken two.
HR and learning and development leaders use this after a tool rollout, when licenses are paid for and usage is shallow. Operations managers use it for teams doing repetitive drafting, summarizing, or analysis where the time savings are real and currently unrealized. Participants work on their own recurring tasks, using your approved tools.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work and your approved tools before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other workforce development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led half-day workshop
- Hands on practice using the AI tools your organization has approved
- Reusable prompts built and tested for your own recurring tasks
- Techniques for context, structure, examples, and iteration
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The session opens on why prompts fail, which is almost always missing context rather than wrong wording. Participants learn that the model knows nothing about their organization, their audience, or their standards unless told, and practice supplying that context efficiently. Most immediately improve output on a task they had already given up on.
The middle is technique. Participants work through specifying role and audience, giving examples of what good looks like, asking for a structure they can use, and constraining length and tone. They learn to iterate on a response rather than starting over, which is where most people waste the time they were trying to save.
The last stretch is building something durable. Participants take the tasks they do every week and build reusable prompts for them, tested during the session. They also learn where prompting cannot help: when the model lacks the information, when the task needs accountability, and when verifying the output costs more than doing the work.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Supply the context a model needs rather than assuming it knows
- Specify role, audience, structure, and constraints deliberately
- Use examples to show the model what good looks like
- Iterate on a response instead of starting over
- Build reusable prompts for tasks you repeat weekly
- Recognize when prompting cannot fix the problem
- Judge when verifying output costs more than doing the work
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop, though participants get more from it if they already understand what AI tools do and do not do. Teams new to AI should start with AI Fundamentals for the Workplace.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$395.00 per participant
AI Prompt Engineering for the Workplace is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $395 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
- Optional courseware: the Prompt Engineering & Practical AI Student Guide (Logical Operations) is available at $65 per participant and is not included in the course price
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
AI Training training
AI training for employees and leaders
AI tools are already on your employees' desktops. DWC AI workshops teach teams to use them well and safely, from AI fundamentals and prompt engineering for everyday roles to ethical AI, AI and data literacy, and AI for project managers.
For leaders, workshops cover AI leadership, AI-enabled performance management, leading AI-enabled programs, responsible AI governance, and AI risk management using the NIST framework. Start with a fundamentals session for the whole team, then add role-specific workshops for the people leading adoption.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Does AI training cover responsible use and company policy?
Yes. Responsible use is part of every AI workshop, and the ethical AI and AI risk management workshops focus on policy, risk, and governance for leaders.
Is AI training useful for non-technical staff?
Yes. AI Fundamentals for the Workplace and AI Prompt Engineering for the Workplace are built for everyday business roles rather than developers.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.