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AI Fundamentals for the Workplace
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
AI Fundamentals 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
Your team is already using AI. Nobody told them how.
Your employees are using AI whether you have a policy or not. They are pasting work into free tools on personal accounts, trusting output they cannot evaluate, and learning by trial and error on live work. The training gap is not coming. It is already open.
This workshop closes it with the least glamorous thing available: a shared, accurate mental model. What these systems are doing when they generate text. Why fluent output and correct output are unrelated. Which tasks they are genuinely good at, and which ones they fail at in ways that are hard to spot.
HR and learning and development leaders use it as a baseline before rolling out an approved tool, so adoption starts from understanding rather than rumor. Operations managers use it where staff are already improvising and the risk is unmanaged. Examples use the tools your organization has actually approved, and your data handling rules are built into the exercises.
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 with the AI tools your organization has approved
- Realistic tasks from participants' own roles
- Practical guidance on data handling and your AI policy
- 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 with what these systems actually do, at the level a working professional needs rather than an engineer. Participants learn that a language model predicts plausible text, not true text, and that this single fact explains almost every failure mode they will encounter. Most arrive believing the tool looks things up. It does not.
The middle is the practical boundary. Participants work through tasks where AI performs well, drafting, summarizing, reformatting, brainstorming, and tasks where it fails quietly: anything requiring current facts, precise numbers, or accountability. They practice verifying output rather than trusting it, and learn to recognize the confident fabrication that reads exactly like the correct answer.
The last stretch is safety and policy. Participants learn what happens to information pasted into a tool, why customer data, personnel records, and unreleased material do not belong there, and how to work inside your organization's rules. Every exercise uses your approved tools and realistic tasks from participants' own roles.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Explain what generative AI does and does not do, accurately
- Understand why fluent output and correct output are unrelated
- Tell tasks AI suits from tasks where it fails quietly
- Recognize a confident fabrication that reads like a correct answer
- Verify AI output rather than trusting it
- Handle data safely and work within your organization's AI policy
- Use AI deliberately rather than experimentally
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is appropriate for professionals at all experience levels and assumes no technical background. Teams ready to get better results from these tools can continue with AI Prompt Engineering 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 Fundamentals 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 AI Fundamentals 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.