How AI Can Help You at Work

This short course shows knowledge workers concrete, relatable ways AI can help with daily tasks like drafting emails, summarizing documents, and getting quick research. Learners leave with a clear sense of where AI fits into their own work. It turns abstract curiosity into practical motivation.

What this course covers

The course runs across 4 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Streamlining Your Writing and Emails with AI — Learn how to draft, refine, and adjust the tone of professional emails and documents using AI. Includes a hands-on activity drafting a project update.
Rapid Summarization and Information Extraction — Practice feeding long articles, meeting transcripts, or reports into an AI tool to extract key action items and high-level summaries efficiently.
Conducting Smart Research and Fact-Checking — Explore how to use AI as a research partner for brainstorming and initial inquiries, while learning critical techniques to spot and prevent hallucinations.
Scenario Workshop: Choosing the Right AI Application — Navigate real-world workplace dilemmas to decide when to use AI, how to input prompts safely, and when to rely on traditional manual work.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick. This course maps to Content Strategy, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Generative AI Concepts, AI Ethics.

Content Strategy
Critical Thinking
Data Analysis
Generative AI Concepts
AI Ethics

Who it is for

All knowledge workers. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 24 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Intro to AI track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab, branching scenario exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a quiz assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

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Using AI Safely & Responsibly — This short course covers the simple, essential rules for using AI safely and responsibly at work. Learners learn what information should never be shared, how to sanity-check AI answers, and why bias and company policy matter. It builds the safe habits employees need from day one.
Intro to Voice & Audio AI — A 20-minute first touch with voice and audio AI. Learners transcribe a clip, generate natural speech from text, and understand where voice AI already touches their work.
AI in 30 Minutes: An Executive Primer — A compressed, no-jargon briefing that gives senior leaders working fluency in one sitting. It covers what generative AI is, what it changes for the business, the risk headlines, and the questions a leader should be asking their teams.
Fitting AI into Your Daily Workflow — This closing course helps employees turn a first try into a lasting habit. Learners practice spotting which of their own tasks are a good fit for AI, building it into their routine, and recognizing when not to use it. They leave with a personal plan to keep using AI after the introduction.
General AI Fluency Assessment — The General AI Fluency Assessment: twenty open questions across delegating work to AI, describing what you need, judging what comes back and using the tools responsibly. Read the full guide at /resources/ai-fluency-assessment.
Introduction to AI for Knowledge Workers — Introduce employees to AI and how it's used at work, in under two hours of short-form courses

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 24 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code INTRO-102.