AI for Everyday Work

Course Outline

• Foundations

  • What AI actually is (myths busted)
  • Your first real conversation with an AI assistant

• The Method

  • A simple, repeatable framework for getting useful results, practiced on your own real work

• Applying It

  • Role-specific practice — writing, summarising, planning your actual tasks
  • Start building your personal prompt library

• Judgment & Safety

  • Checking AI’s work before you trust it
  • Using AI responsibly with client or company data
  • Final practical exercise

• Writing Faster

  • Emails, reports, and proposals in your own voice

• Summarising & Research

  • Turning long documents into clear takeaways

• Planning & Organising

  • Using AI to plan your week and projects alongside the tools you already use

• Your System

  • Assembling your own reusable prompt library and templates
  • Final practical project

• Marketing on No Budget

  • Content ideas, social posts, and ad copy

• Customer Communication

  • Drafting clear, professional replies for enquiries, complaints, and orders on WhatsApp and email — without sounding like a bot

• Money Matters

  • Simple bookkeeping habits, pricing help, and expense tracking with AI assistance

• Growing the Business

  • Writing a business plan section or funding proposal with AI help
  • Final practical project

• ClickUp Fundamentals

  • Setting up projects, tasks, and views that actually get used

• AI Inside Your Workflow

  • Using AI to draft tasks, summarise project updates, and keep documentation current

• Automation

  • Building simple ClickUp automations that remove repetitive admin work

• Bringing It Together

  • A real project template you’ll actually use
  • Final practical project

• Planning Faster

  • Building lesson plans and schemes of work in a fraction of the usual time

• Materials & Assessment

  • Generating quizzes, worksheets, and rubrics tailored to your class

• Reaching Every Learner

  • Adapting the same lesson for different ability levels and learning styles

• Marking & Feedback

  • Using AI to speed up grading and write clearer, more useful feedback
  • Final practical exercise

• Beyond the Basics

  • Advanced prompting techniques for consistently sharper, more useful answers

• Projects & Artifacts

  • Setting up a Project with persistent context and instructions for work you repeat
  • Using Artifacts to generate documents, code, and visuals you can actually reuse

• Claude Code, Practically

  • A no-experience-needed look at how Claude can write and fix simple code and automate small technical tasks — useful even if you’ve never coded

• Claude Cowork

  • Using Claude’s Cowork feature to bring it into the documents, files, and tasks you already handle every day, so it becomes a real working habit, not a one-off demo

• Design

  • Using an AI assistant for design ideation and iteration
  • Other AI design tools worth knowing
  • Speeding up mockups and concepts
  • Where AI helps, and where your own eye still matters most

• Video

  • Scripting with AI assistance
  • Turning an idea into short AI-generated video
  • Editing and refining AI video output
  • A realistic view of what today’s tools can and can’t do

• Social Media

  • Captions and post copy in your own brand voice
  • Building a month of content in an afternoon
  • Quick graphics and short video for posts
  • Staying consistent without burning out

• Writing

  • Drafting faster without losing your voice
  • Editing and tightening your own writing
  • Research and fact-gathering with AI
  • Avoiding the “obviously AI-written” trap

• Audio

  • Generating original music with AI tools
  • Voice, narration, and podcast editing basics
  • Where AI-made audio works well, and where it doesn’t
  • Practical use in ads, intros, and jingles

• Presentations

  • Structuring a presentation people actually remember
  • Building a deck in a fraction of the usual time
  • Using AI for talking points and speaker notes
  • Polishing a deck without losing your own voice

• Reports

  • Turning raw data into clear reports, faster
  • Spotting trends without wading through spreadsheets by hand
  • Simple, repeatable steps you can reuse every reporting cycle