Workshop Approach
Lectures about AI do not change behavior. Our workshops are built around active practice: participants bring real tasks from their daily work and learn AI techniques by applying them immediately. Every workshop session includes instruction, demonstration, guided practice, and independent application. By the end of each session, participants have completed actual work using the techniques they learned, not just theoretical exercises they will forget by Monday.
Interactive Training
Sessions are structured as guided practice, not passive learning. The facilitator demonstrates a technique, participants try it on their own tasks, the group discusses what worked and what did not, and the facilitator provides real-time coaching. This cycle repeats throughout each session, ensuring concepts are internalized through practice rather than memorization.
Real-Task Practice
Participants work with their actual documents, data, and problems. A marketing team practices AI content creation with their brand voice guidelines. A finance team practices data analysis with their actual spreadsheets. An engineering team practices code review with their codebase. This makes every minute of training directly applicable.
Small-Group Sessions
Workshops are capped at 12 to 15 participants to ensure individual attention and active participation. Everyone gets hands-on time with the facilitator, nobody hides in the back row, and the group is small enough to discuss specific challenges openly. For larger organizations, we run multiple cohorts with consistent curriculum.
Progressive Skill Building
Workshop series are designed with deliberate progression. Early sessions cover fundamentals: effective prompting, tool navigation, and basic workflows. Subsequent sessions build on that foundation with multi-step workflows, structured output, and advanced techniques like prompt chaining, evaluation, and automation. Each session reinforces and extends the previous one.
Workshop Series Structure
Prep
Collect real tasks from participants
Foundations
Core skills with guided practice
Application
Apply to real business tasks
Advanced
Workflows, chains, automation
Debrief
Review outcomes and next steps
Prep
Collect real tasks from participants
Foundations
Core skills with guided practice
Application
Apply to real business tasks
Advanced
Workflows, chains, automation
Debrief
Review outcomes and next steps
Workshop Program
Workshop Formats
We offer several workshop formats to match your team's availability and learning objectives. Intensive sessions work well for teams that can dedicate a focused block of time. These cover one major topic area in depth. Multi-session series spread learning over several weeks, allowing participants to practice between sessions and bring questions back.
Executive briefings condense key concepts into shorter sessions designed for leadership teams. These focus on strategic implications, decision frameworks, and hands-on demonstrations rather than technical depth. Lunch-and-learn formats provide concise introductions to specific tools or techniques for teams exploring AI adoption.
All formats include post-workshop materials. Participants receive supporting resources to reinforce what they learned and continue building skills after the workshop concludes.
Topics Covered
Workshop content is customized to your team's needs, but common modules include prompt engineering fundamentals and advanced techniques, AI workflow design using Make.com, Zapier, or n8n, tool-specific deep dives for ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or other platforms, data privacy and responsible AI usage, AI for specific functions including marketing, sales, engineering, operations, finance, and HR, and building AI-powered processes that run reliably without constant supervision.
Who This Is For
Hands-on workshops work best for teams of 5 to 50 people who need practical AI skills they can apply immediately. They are especially effective when paired with a baseline assessment that identifies specific skill gaps to address. Teams that have attended lectures or webinars about AI but have not changed their daily work habits are ideal candidates for the practice-oriented workshop format.
Contact us at ben@oakenai.tech