Catching Up: AI Confidence at Work

AI Confidence for professionals and teams: A practical one-hour guide to using AI tools purposefully at work

If you're a professional who has been meaning to engage seriously with AI at work - and hasn't quite got there yet - this guide is for you.

Catching Up: AI Confidence at Work is a concise, jargon-free guide with workshop-style exercises for experienced professionals who want to use AI tools with purpose and confidence. Designed to be read in about an hour and applied immediately, it shows you how to use AI for the real work of professional life: drafting, summarising, preparing for conversations, generating options and clearing the administrative tasks that consume your time.

No technical background required. No hype. No assumption that you are already a confident AI user.

What's inside

• Why you are not as behind as you feel - and why now is the right moment to start

• What generative AI actually is, explained without jargon

• The difference between search and AI, and when to use each

• Your first five minutes with an AI tool at work - a simple, confidence-building exercise

• A five-part prompting framework for getting consistently better professional outputs

• Ten practical workplace tasks you can try this week

• How to use AI responsibly at work - what to trust, what to verify and when your judgement matters most

Who it's for
Professionals across functions and sectors who are ready to move from curious to capable - and who want a practical, honest guide to doing so without the hype, the jargon or the lengthy course.

Continue the series
This edition is part of the Catching Up series, with specialist editions for managers, charity leaders, legal BD and marketing professionals, and more.