Run it in 90 minutes
A single session on using AI at work. No slides required, no prior knowledge assumed, one printed handout.
Built for the person who has been asked to “do something about AI” and has ninety minutes, not a day. Everything below fits on one page so you can print it and hold it.
| Min | What happens | Why it stays |
|---|---|---|
| 0–5 | Two questions: what has it done well, what has it got confidently wrong | Establishes both happen, without a lecture |
| 5–15 | One sentence on mechanism. Then the deliberate failure: ask for a citation or number in their own field, check it live | The session exists for this moment |
| 15–40 | Drill: each person summarises a real document, then rewrites it in their own words | Quick win with a built-in check |
| 40–55 | Three failures fast: confabulation, agreement, drift — examples from their own answers | Names what they have already seen |
| 55–75 | Drill: eight real tasks sorted into four consequence rows | Produces a rule, not a feeling |
| 75–85 | Hand out the four rows. Each person writes the one check they will run | Leaves with a commitment in writing |
| 85–90 | One sentence each on what they will stop doing | Stopping is the change; starting is easy |
The four rows (print this)
| If it is wrong… | Check | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing much | Skim | Brainstormed titles |
| Wasted effort | Read against source | Summaries |
| Reputational | Verify facts and figures | Anything sent outside |
| Irreversible | Do not use the tool | Legal, money, safety |
What to cut, in order
- Prompting frameworks — they date, and the drill teaches it faster.
- The policy module — needs an hour and a real argument.
- The build module — ninety minutes cannot hold it.
- Your own examples — use theirs.
Success is not “they enjoyed it”. Every person leaves able to name one check they will run and one thing they will stop doing. If they cannot, you probably talked for the first forty minutes instead of the first fifteen.
Only 45 minutes? Keep the failure demonstration, the sort-your-week drill and the written check. That still works.
Everything else — eight modules, run sheets, handouts, assessment, pricing and objection handling — is in the free workbook: Teaching AI in the Workplace.