AI Training

First half-day session

1. 9:30 to 10:25 55 minutes The foundations, and the automations you’ll build Introductions, recording the session, what good looks like, how ChatGPT Work or Claude Cowork works, and the automation list prepared from your interviews.

   Start by recording the session, so the decisions and reasoning behind it become useful context later. Then look at what good can look like when AI knows the relevant context, works across the tools you use and takes action rather than only giving answers. You will see how ChatGPT Work or Claude Cowork combines the model, your local second brain and connected tools, then review the prioritised automation list prepared from your interviews. Larger processes are broken into smaller, practical automations you can test and improve.

2. 10:25 to 10:35 10 minutes Connect your real tools Connect Claude or ChatGPT to the email, calendar, files and other tools where your work happens.

   Connect at least one real tool and test what Claude or ChatGPT can access and do with it. This gives AI current information and lets it work where the task already happens, rather than relying on you to copy everything into a chat. You will also see what access you are granting and where your approval is still required.

3. 10:35 to 10:45 10 minutes Break
4. 10:45 to 11:15 30 minutes Set up your second brain Make the prepared local context about you and your business your own, so AI has what it needs from the start.

   A second brain is a local folder containing the information you would otherwise keep re-explaining: how your business works, your preferences, previous work, real examples and feedback. You compare AI with and without that context, make the prepared material your own and learn how to keep it useful over time.

5. 11:15 to 12:00 45 minutes Building blocks, part one Prompting, skills and scheduled tasks: give AI clear instructions, save a proven way of working and run it again when needed.

   Learn to brief AI clearly, with the context, examples and definition of a good result it cannot guess for itself. Then turn a proven approach into a reusable skill and set up work that should run again as a scheduled task.

6. 12:00 to 12:10 10 minutes Break
7. 12:10 to 12:50 40 minutes Building blocks, part two Artifacts or Sites, Claude Design where relevant, and browser use.

   Create an Artifact in Claude or a Site in ChatGPT, and use Claude Design where it is relevant to the work. Then use browser control to let AI inspect a website or work through a browser-based task when there is no direct connection to the information or system you need. You practise choosing when browser use is the right approach, how to follow what AI is doing and when it should stop for your approval.

Second half-day session

1. 9:30 to 10:45 1 hour 15 minutes Build and test your priority automations Start with the highest-value priority, then work through as many useful automations as the time allows.

   Work through the priority automations from your interviews in value order. Build each around the real examples you prepared, test it on work it has not seen and refine it until it is usable. The aim is to complete as many as possible, without leaving half-finished work behind. Michael will coach you throughout, helping you choose the right building blocks and work through any problems.

2. 10:45 to 10:55 10 minutes Break
3. 10:55 to 11:55 1 hour Continue building and testing Move to the next priority when the previous automation is working well.

   Use the same cycle for each priority: build, test on held-back examples, refine, record the result and move on. One complex automation may take the whole session; otherwise, work through as many useful automations as the time allows.

4. 11:55 to 12:05 10 minutes Break
5. 12:05 to 12:25 20 minutes Finish and measure Complete and measure the automation you are working on.

   Finish the current automation rather than starting something new. Make sure it works reliably enough for real use, record the result and capture what you would improve next.

6. 12:25 to 12:40 15 minutes Show and tell Share one automation and what changed.

   Choose one automation to share with the group. Explain what it does, how you built it and the result you measured when you tested it.

7. 12:40 to 12:55 15 minutes Keep it going Maintain what you built and decide what comes next.

   Set up a weekly review that helps you spot what to improve next. Learn how to maintain what you built, add new priorities to your automation list and get help from Michael during the following three weeks.