DTBS 0026 - The AI-Augmented Workday: How to Leverage AI as an Assistant and Superpower
Course Description
Artificial intelligence is changing how work gets done, yet most professionals are still guessing how to use it effectively. The AI-Augmented Workday is a hands-on, practical program designed to help you turn AI into a reliable assistant rather than a risky experiment. Instead of chasing hype, you’ll learn how to use AI to write, plan, analyze information, prepare for meetings and organize your workflow with greater speed and clarity.
Across two half-day intensives, you’ll learn how to brief AI like a junior teammate, review its output with confidence and apply simple professional guardrails to avoid costly mistakes. You’ll design repeatable AI-supported workflows for your real work, build a personal AI assistant aligned to your role and leave with a customized AI-Augmented Workday Playbook and a 90-day implementation plan. No technical background required — just bring your laptop and your real-world challenges.
Course Outline/Topics
Day One: Make AI Actually Helpful in Your Day-to-Day Work
Theme: Working with AI as a Professional Partner
- What AI does well and where it fails
- Why confident-sounding output can still be wrong
- The AI Alignment Model for everyday work decisions
- Professional guardrails and data safety basics
- Mapping your workday to identify high-impact AI use cases
- Designing a repeatable AI-supported workflow
You’ll leave with: A personal AI Workday Map, clear AI-use boundaries and one ready-to-apply workflow.
Day Two: Build Your Personal AI Assistant and Future-Proof Your Skills
Theme: From Prompts to Systems
- Choosing tools without chasing every new platform
- Improving output with context, constraints and review steps
- Using your own documents to increase AI accuracy
- Spotting silent AI mistakes before they create problems
- Understanding AI “agents” — what’s realistic today
- Creating your 90-day AI implementation plan
You’ll leave with: A personal AI assistant design, an AI output review checklist and a practical action plan for integrating AI into your daily work.
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
- Describe how AI can support everyday work, including writing, organizing, planning and analysis
- Use AI to transform messy information into clear, usable outputs
- Deconstruct vague prompts and restructure them into clear, effective AI briefs
- Differentiate when AI should execute a task, provide advisory input or stay out of the workflow entirely.
- Detect common mistakes and silent failures in AI-generated work.
- Apply simple professional guardrails when using AI at work
- Design and refine a personal AI assistant aligned to specific role responsibilities
- Explain how emerging AI “agent” tools function and summarize what they realistically can and cannot do
- Integrate personal documents and trusted sources to improve AI accuracy and relevance
- Develop a practical, role-specific 90-day plan for integrating AI into daily work
Notes
Participant Requirements:
- A laptop
- Access to at least one AI platform (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot)
- Real, non-sensitive work examples for hands-on exercises