Practical AI for Everyday Work
- Instructor:
- Bruno Correa
- Duration:
- 180 min
- Modules:
- 8
- Lessons:
- 22
A practical introduction to using artificial intelligence as a real everyday work tool. Learn how to think with AI, write better prompts, research faster, summarize information, analyze documents, organize ideas, improve writing and automate repetitive tasks without losing judgment, context or responsibility. This course focuses on practical use rather than hype. You will learn where AI is genuinely useful, where it can fail, how to verify its outputs and how to build simple workflows that make your work faster, clearer and more effective.
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Syllabus
Module 1 — Understanding AI as a Work Tool
Build a clear mental model of what modern AI can do, where it adds value and where human judgment remains essential.
What AI Is — and What It Is Not
Understand generative AI, language models and why fluent answers are not the same as guaranteed truth.
The Best Uses of AI at Work
Identify tasks where AI can increase speed, clarity and productivity without replacing necessary human decisions.
Human Judgment Still Matters
Learn when AI should assist your thinking and when you should slow down, verify information or make the decision yourself.
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Module 4 — Prompting as Clear Communication
Learn how to communicate with AI more effectively by providing context, objectives, constraints and useful examples.
Stop Looking for the Perfect Prompt
Understand why good results usually come from clear context and iteration rather than secret formulas.
Context, Goal, Constraints and Output
Use a simple structure to make requests clearer and produce more useful AI responses.
Work With AI in Iterations
Treat AI as a collaborative process: ask, review, refine, challenge and improve instead of expecting perfection in one response.
Module 5 — Everyday AI Workflows
Apply AI to common professional tasks including writing, summarization, research, planning and information organization.
Writing and Rewriting Faster
Use AI to draft, improve, shorten, restructure and adapt professional writing while keeping your own intent and voice.
Summarizing Without Losing What Matters
Turn long documents, notes and conversations into useful summaries, decisions and action items.
Research and Information Synthesis
Use AI to structure questions, compare information and synthesize findings while verifying important claims.
Planning, Brainstorming and Decision Support
Use AI to generate alternatives, organize possibilities and improve thinking without delegating your final decision.
Module 6 — Documents, Data and Repetitive Work
Use AI to work with structured information, documents and repetitive tasks more efficiently.
Working With Documents
Extract key information, compare sections, identify patterns and transform documents into structured outputs.
Using AI With Tables and Data
Learn how AI can help organize, interpret and explain structured data while understanding when specialist tools are still necessary.
From Repetition to Automation
Identify repetitive workflows that can be simplified with templates, AI assistants, integrations or basic automation.
Module 7 — Using AI Responsibly
Understand hallucinations, verification, privacy and the practical limits of using AI in professional environments.
AI Can Be Confident and Wrong
Recognize hallucinations, fabricated details and other failure modes before they become real-world mistakes.
What Should You Verify?
Develop a practical verification habit based on the importance, risk and reversibility of the information involved.
Privacy, Confidentiality and Sensitive Information
Understand why not every piece of company, customer or personal information should be placed into an AI system.
Module 8 — Build Your Personal AI Workflow
Turn individual techniques into a repeatable system for using AI effectively in your own work.
Find Your Highest-Value AI Tasks
Identify the tasks in your routine where AI can realistically save the most time or improve the quality of your work.
Create Reusable AI Workflows
Turn successful conversations and instructions into repeatable templates you can use again.
Your 30-Day AI Adoption Plan
Choose a small set of AI use cases, test them in real work and build a sustainable habit instead of trying to automate everything at once.