AI for career and personal growth

Optimise your performance, enhance your skills, and future-proof your career with the power of AI.

You’ve experimented with AI tools, watched the webinars, and seen the potential. Now, it’s time to take the next step. This intensive 1 day “AI for career and personal growth” course is designed for professionals who want to move from casual user to power user, transforming their AI knowledge into a tangible career asset. Learn advanced techniques to drive efficiency, produce higher quality work, and position yourself as an AI savvy leader in your field.

As the capabilities of AI are evolving at a rapid pace, the course content will be updated on a regular basis in an attempt to keep pace with the latest tools and techniques before each course.

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Who is this course for?

This IPSO FACTO course is for ambitious professionals, team leaders, and managers from any industry who have a foundational understanding of AI and want to deepen their expertise. It is the perfect next step if you:

• Have used tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Co-pilot and want to master their advanced features.
• Are looking to integrate AI strategically into your daily workflows for maximum impact.
• Want to enhance your career prospects by developing in demand, advanced AI skills.
• Need to produce more sophisticated outputs, from detailed reports and data analysis to strategic plans and compelling marketing copy.
• Are ready to move beyond the basics and explore concepts like AI-driven automation and workflow optimisation.

No prior experience with AI is necessary. The only prerequisite is a desire to learn and enhance your capabilities.

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Why should you take this “AI for career and personal growth” course?

We’ll take you well beyond simple prompts, teaching you how to apply advanced techniques to solve real world business problems, automate workflows, and analyse data with unprecedented speed and insight.

Boost your productivity & performance

• Work faster and smarter: Dramatically reduce the time it takes to draft reports, create presentations, analyse data, and write communications, freeing you up to focus on high value strategic work.
• Automate repetitive tasks: Learn to design simple AI driven workflows that handle the tedious, time-consuming parts of your job, reducing errors and increasing your overall output.
• Enhance your decision making: Use AI to quickly summarize complex documents and data sets, allowing you to extract key insights and make better-informed decisions with confidence.

Elevate your professional skills

• Master advanced techniques: Go far beyond basic prompting. You will learn to architect sophisticated prompts that deliver precise, nuanced, and consistently high-quality results.
• Deliver superior work: Elevate the quality of your outputs, from more insightful data analysis to more persuasive marketing copy and more detailed project plans.
• Become a strategic user: Learn to apply AI not just as a simple tool, but as a strategic partner for brainstorming, problem-solving, and innovation.

Advance your career

• Gain a significant competitive edge: Differentiate yourself in the workplace with an advanced, practical skill set that is in high demand across all industries.
• Become the go-to expert: Position yourself as the AI authority on your team, increasing your visibility, value, and influence within your organization.
• Future proof your role: Develop the critical AI literacy that is rapidly becoming a core competency for career growth, ensuring your skills remain relevant and valuable for years to come.

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Course Outline and key topics

This workshop is focused on practical application and advanced techniques to give you a competitive edge.

• Beyond the basics: A quick recap of core concepts before diving into the current AI landscape, multi-modal models (text, image, data), and the key differences between major platforms.
• Advanced prompt engineering: Learn the architecture of a perfect prompt. We’ll cover advanced techniques like Chain-of-Thought, persona adoption, and structured data outputs to get precisely what you need from the AI.
• AI for strategic business functions: Go deep into practical, high value cases:
  • Project Management: Create detailed project plans, risk assessments, and stakeholder communications.
  • Data Analysis: Use AI to interpret data sets, identify trends, and generate insightful summaries from spreadsheets.
  • Marketing & Sales: Develop customer personas, craft targeted campaigns, and write persuasive sales copy.
• Mastering your data: Learn how to create a secure, private AI knowledge base from your own documents reports, project files, research papers to get instant, accurate answers and insights.
• Workflow automation & ai agents: An introduction to the future of work. Understand how to use AI to design and automate multi-step processes, saving hours of manual effort.
• Corporate governance & ethics: A crucial module on using AI responsibly in the workplace, covering data security, confidentiality, intellectual property rights, and avoiding algorithmic bias.

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About your instructor

Tim Whitaker is a highly regarded AI educator and course developer, known for delivering impactful, practical training to professionals across sectors. His portfolio includes the acclaimed courses AI for Business Managers, AI for Modern Project Management, and Start Your Own Online Business with AI, all praised for their clarity, relevance, and results. Tim brings a wealth of experience and a hands on teaching style that empowers delegates to confidently apply AI in both their professional roles and personal lives.

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FAQ

How much prior AI knowledge do I really need for this “Next Step” course?

If you’ve moved beyond being a first-time user and have experimented with tools like ChatGPT or Gemini for basic tasks, you’re at the perfect starting point. This course is specifically designed for those who understand the fundamentals and are now asking, “How do I use this effectively and strategically at work?” We won’t waste time on the absolute basics; we dive straight into enhancing the skills you already have.

I’ve watched free online tutorials. How is this “AI for career and personal growth” course different?

While online tutorials are great for isolated tricks, this course provides a structured, professional learning path. We connect the dots between different AI capabilities and show you how to integrate them into a cohesive workflow for real business challenges. You benefit from expert instruction, curated content (like our advanced prompt library), and interactive exercises focused on corporate use cases something scattered, ad-hoc videos simply can’t provide.

Is the “AI for career and personal growth” course more theory based or hands on practice?

The course is heavily weighted towards hands-on, practical application. Theory is only used to introduce a concept, which is immediately followed by exercises where you’ll apply what you’ve learned to solve realistic business problems. You’ll be actively using AI tools throughout the day to ensure you leave with confidence and tangible skills you can use immediately.

How will this help me if I’m not in a tech, marketing, or project management role?

The core skills we teach advanced communication, rapid research, data summarization, and workflow automation are universally applicable to any professional role. Whether you’re in HR, finance, sales, or operations, you’ll learn how to offload administrative tasks, generate deeper insights, and communicate more effectively, making you more valuable and efficient in your specific field.

A major concern for my company is data security. Will this be covered?

Yes, this is a critical module. We dedicate a specific session to corporate governance, ethics, and security. You will learn the ‘dos and don’ts’ of using public AI tools with sensitive company or client information, helping you leverage AI’s power while mitigating risks and adhering to professional best practices.

How is the “AI for career and personal growth” course delivered and what do I get?

The “AI for career and personal growth” course is delivered as a live virtual classroom session (09:00–16:00). You’ll receive full digital materials, practical exercises, and a certificate of completion from IPSO FACTO.

My job doesn’t involve coding. Will this be too technical for me?

Absolutely not. This is a no-code course. Our focus is entirely on leveraging the power of existing, user-friendly AI platforms to enhance your professional capabilities. We teach you how to be a masterful user and strategic thinker with AI, not how to build it. If you can use standard office software, you have all the technical skill you need.

When was this “AI for Career and Personal Growth” course last updated?

16th Sepember 2025

What AI tools are used during the course?

We’ll certainly have a look at the most popular tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Co-pilot and also cover others.

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