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.
Course overview
AI is reshaping the way organisations operate, bringing both opportunities and challenges for leaders. This practical one-day course is designed to help leaders confidently navigate the early stages of AI adoption.
Through a blend of strategic frameworks and hands-on exploration, participants will discover approaches for engaging with AI that are tailored to their context, leverage their team’s strengths, and align with their organisation’s vision. The course equips participants with practical tools for getting started, strategies for engaging others, and the confidence to shape how AI can enhance their organisation’s impact.
This course is ideal for leaders across sectors who want to understand AI’s implications, build an effective AI strategy, and guide their teams through change. Participants will leave with actionable tools, a clearer vision for AI in their organisation, and the confidence to lead in this rapidly evolving landscape.
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
Understanding the AI Era: Explore what AI is—and isn’t—through a leadership lens. Learn key concepts, current capabilities, and how AI is reshaping the way organisations operate and deliver impact.
Your Leadership Context: Identify where AI might add the most value in your organisation. Use strategic tools to consider risks, opportunities, and alignment with your purpose, values, and goals.
Starting Your AI Journey: Learn how to approach early initiatives. Discover simple, practical ways to build momentum, encourage learning, and support responsible use of AI.
Engaging Your People: Examine how to lead teams through change by creating space for dialogue, curiosity, and capability-building. Explore ways to support learning, manage concerns, and foster trust.
Your Pathway Forward: Develop a high-level roadmap to take back to your organisation. Identify priorities, next steps, and strategies to keep learning, evolving, and leading in the AI era.
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