Prompt Engineering and GenAI for Office Productivity

Location: Virtual or On-site

Length: 3 Days

Price: $2,400 per student

Overview:

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini™, and Claude have become indispensable for boosting productivity and efficiency. This comprehensive course will explore the myriad ways these AI tools can transform your workflow across various business applications, from content creation to data management.

In this course, you will learn to leverage GenAI tools for authoring and revising content in word processors like Microsoft® Word, Google Docs™, and LibreOffice® Writer, as well as desktop publishing software such as Adobe® InDesign®, Microsoft Publisher®, and QuarkXPress. Discover how AI can inspire brainstorming, streamline writing, and enhance documentation projects using free online tools. Master GenAI tools to develop engaging business presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, LibreOffice Impress, and other applications, efficiently generating text, images, presenter notes, and handouts. Understand how AI can enhance productivity in spreadsheets like Excel and Google Sheets, providing problem-solving insights and guiding crucial business decisions without additional costs.

You will also learn text and image prompt engineering by exploring how AI tools can generate high-quality, effective communication content. Learn the art of prompt engineering to instruct AI accurately for summarizing information, generating ideas, solving problems, and engaging in various conversational tasks. You will then delve into the capabilities of AI in generating unique, high-quality images. From art and illustrations to diagrams and product designs, discover how AI can produce custom graphics swiftly and cost-effectively based on your specifications.

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Course Objectives:

In this course, you will generate images effectively using AI tools. You will:

• Select and use generative AI tools to generate spreadsheet content.

• Use generative AI to enhance your productivity while working in spreadsheets.

• Use generative AI to solve spreadsheet-related problems.

• Select and use generative AI tools to generate ideas for your written documentation.

• Use generative AI tools to develop text content for your word-processing documents.

• Use generative AI tools to produce images and design ideas you can use in your documents.

• Select and use generative AI tools to generate text content for presentation slides and handouts.

• Generate images and design ideas you can use in a presentation.

• Generate presenter notes and handout content for use in a presentation.

• Select and use a generative AI tool to create text from prompts.

• Use prompt-engineering techniques to optimize text generation for your specific needs.

• Implement text generation in a business setting.

• Select and use a generative AI tool to create images from text prompts.

• Describe your desired content and style sufficiently for a generative AI tool to produce the image you want.

• Use AI image-generation tools effectively and ethically within a business context.
  

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for people who want to develop the skills needed to put generative AI to work on their office productivity tasks and workflows, and to use AI tools to increase the speed and accuracy of other digital tasks.

Certification:

No applicable certification.

Prerequisites:

• Solid familiarity with Microsoft Windows and web browsers.

Detailed Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Spreadsheets and GenAI - Using AI to Generate Spreadsheet Content

Topic A: Generate Spreadsheet Content

Topic B: Using the Right GenAI Tool for the Job

Lesson 2: Spreadsheets and GenAI - Enhancing Your Spreadsheet Productivity with GenAI

Topic A: Ask GenAI for Basic Help

Topic B: Ask GenAI for Help Performing Specific Tasks

Lesson 3: Spreadsheets and GenAI - Solving Problems Using GenAI

Topic A: Identify Problem-Solving Limitations of GenAI

Topic B: Solve Problems Strategically Using GenAI

Lesson 4: Documents and GenAI - Using AI for Brainstorming and Idea Generation

Topic A: Select and Use Generative AI Tools

Topic B: Use Generative AI for Brainstorming

Lesson 5: Documents and GenAI - Using AI to Produce Written Text

Topic A: Use AI to Generate Text

Topic B: Use AI to Revise Existing Text Content

Lesson 6: Documents and GenAI - Using AI to Produce Images

Topic A: Generate New Images

Topic B: Import Generated Images into Word

Lesson 7: Presentations and GenAI - Using AI to Generate Text Ideas and Content

Topic A: Brainstorm Presentation Ideas

Topic B: Use a Chatbot to Generate a Presentation

Topic C: Prepare AI-Generated Text for PowerPoint

Topic D: Import and Format AI-Generated Slide Content

Lesson 8: Presentations and GenAI - Using AI for Graphic Development

Topic A: Brainstorm Image and Design Ideas

Topic B: Writing Better Image Generation Prompts

Lesson 9: Presentations and GenAI - Using AI to Generate Presenter Notes and Handout Content

Topic A: Expand Slide Bullets into Paragraphs for Notes and Handouts

Topic B: Use Chatbot-Based Web Search to Find Additional Information Sources

Lesson 10: Text Prompt Engineering - Using AI to Generate Text

Topic A: Generate Text

Topic B: Select an Appropriate AI Text-Generation Tool

Lesson 11: Text Prompt Engineering - Getting the Text You Want

Topic A: Use Foundational Prompt-Engineering Techniques

Topic B: Use Advanced Prompt-Engineering Techniques

Lesson 12: Text Prompt Engineering - Implementing Text Generation in a Business Setting

Topic A: Solve Business Problems Using AI-Generated Text

Topic B: Address Ethical Concerns

Lesson 13: Image Prompt Engineering - Using AI to Generate an Image

Topic A: Generate an Image

Topic B: Select an Appropriate AI Image-Generation Tool

Lesson 14: Image Prompt Engineering - Getting the Image You Want

Topic A: Describe the Subject Matter of Your Desired Image

Topic B: Describe the Style of Your Desired Image

Lesson 15: Image Prompt Engineering - Implementing Image Generation in a Business Setting

Topic A: Leverage the Variability of AI-Generated Images

Topic B: Handle Ethical Concerns

To arrange a private class, call us at (888) 430-2456.