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Leading With AI: First Steps To Success

Start leading your organisation’s AI journey with confidence. Learn how to identify opportunities, engage your people, and take practical first steps toward success.

Next date
20 Aug 2025, 9am
Delivery
In Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
1 Day
CPD/PLD Hours
7.5

Course overview

The AI Era has arrived, bringing powerful new capabilities that are transforming how organisations work, create value, and achieve their mission. This isn’t just another technology change – it represents a fundamental shift in how we can enhance human capability, organisational effectiveness, and collective impact.

For leaders, this raises important questions: How do we begin this journey? What does AI mean for our people and organisation? Where should we focus our early efforts? How do we engage our teams in learning and experimentation? How do we ensure our approach aligns with our organisational context and values?

This practical, one-day workshop helps you build on your leadership experience and organisational knowledge to create a confident pathway forward. Through a blend of strategic frameworks and hands-on exploration, you’ll discover approaches for engaging with AI that fit your context, leverage your team’s capabilities, and align with your organisation’s vision. You’ll leave with practical tools for getting started, strategies for engaging others, and the confidence to help shape how AI can enhance your organisation’s impact.

Facilitated by

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Lawrence Green

What you'll learn

  • Develop a clear understanding of AI’s potential to enhance human capability and organisational effectiveness.
  • Build confidence in your ability to lead your organisation’s engagement with AI, starting from where you are.
  • Create practical strategies for introducing AI in ways that align with your organisation’s context and values.
  • Discover approaches for engaging your people in learning and experimentation with AI.
  • Design your first steps forward, building on existing strengths.

Course modules

  1. Understanding the AI Era
  2. Your Leadership Context
  3. Starting Your AI Journey
  4. Engaging Your People
  5. Your Pathway Forward

Further Information

  • Essential AI concepts leaders need to understand.
  • Combining human and AI capabilities.
  • Key opportunities AI brings for organisational effectiveness.
  • Practical examples of AI supporting organisational success.
  • Understanding your organisational context and constraints.
  • Identifying existing strengths and capabilities to build upon.
  • Spotting opportunities for early wins.
  • Assessing your organisation’s readiness for first steps. 
  • Building your personal comfort and leading by example.
  • Identifying suitable entry points for your organisation. 
  • Creating momentum through early successes.
  • Connecting personal learning to organisational opportunities. 
  • Creating enthusiasm for learning and exploration.
  • Supporting team experimentation and capability building.
  • Building confidence through small experiments. 
  • Introducing new ways of working.
  • Planning your initial action steps.
  • Creating an initial learning approach.
  • Building support for getting started.
  • Tracking early progress and maintaining momentum. 

 

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

20 Aug 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 Day

$895

excl. GST

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