AI for Professionals

NWETC AI class: the instructor beside a slide for AI for Professionals, with the quote “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” (W. Edwards Deming)

AI for Professionals

AI is moving into everyday work. Learn to use it, check it and decide where it belongs.

Choose your course

Start with 4 hours: the key ideas of the two-day course, with short practice.

Crawl, Walk, Run: each course builds on the last. It's a loop, not a ladder.

What AI skills can open up for you

  • Hand off the routineLet AI take on routine admin work, so your experience goes where it counts.
  • Work and learn your wayShape the tools around your strengths and how you learn.
  • Time for your best workClear the busywork to make room for your best work, and for your life outside it.
  • Lead people and AIBe ready to manage AI tools, agents and people as work shifts, and help your team do the same.

In every course, you'll have the opportunity to:

  • Practice hands-on, on realistic work tasks
  • Check every AI result before you rely on it
  • Start working tools you keep using
  • Learn methods that work in any AI tool

Why NWETC: since mid-2024 we have rebuilt how we work with AI tools, through success and failure. We teach what we have learned.

AI Foundations

Hands-on practice using AI on everyday professional work, with your judgment in charge.

Applied AI & Strategy

Hands-on practice redesigning work, defending your analysis, and planning AI in stages.

Building AI Agents

Hands-on practice designing, building and testing one supervised AI agent.

What each course covers

New skills, new ways of working more effectively and efficiently.

AI-101

AI Foundations

Start here if you're new to AI, or want a reliable foundation.

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AI-101-HD

AI Foundations: 4-Hour Overview

Start here: a 4-hour overview of AI Foundations.

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AI-102

Prompt & Context Engineering

Start here if you already use AI and want reliable, repeatable results.

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AI-102-HD

Prompt & Context Engineering: 4-Hour Overview

Start here: a 4-hour overview of Prompt & Context Engineering.

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AI-103

Building AI Agents

Start here if you're ready to hand AI a multi-step task. No coding needed.

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AI-104

Managing AI Employees

Start here if you're ready to run AI workers as ongoing roles in your operations.

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AI-105

Applied AI & Strategy

Start here if you lead AI work or redesign how your organization works.

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