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CBT Nuggets

AI Productivity for Professionals Online Training

This entry-level course demystifies AI productivity tools and shows you how to make them work for you. You’ll practice prompting ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and similar tools to summarize inboxes and research, turn meeting transcripts into task lists, and automate spreadsheet analysis and formatting. Learn to build slide decks in seconds, use AI agents to manage calendars, and apply responsible AI practices for security and privacy. No prior AI experience required, just a desire to reclaim your time and focus on meaningful work.

Updated October 2025

7Skills
41Videos
5h 31mTotal
41 videos5h 31m

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for busy professionals, like project managers, analysts, HR specialists, marketers and IT staff, who juggle emails, meetings and data. If you’re curious about AI productivity tools and want to reclaim time for high‑value work, this beginner AI course is for you.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Identify key types of AI and how to use them effectively
  • Prompt smarter to summarize and prioritize emails and chats
  • Distill long documents and research into clear, concise briefings
  • Create polished messages, posts, and full documents with ease
  • Build slides and visuals that grab attention fast
  • Automate spreadsheet analysis, formulas, and formatting with AI
  • Learn, research, and manage your time more effectively with privacy and ethics built in

Course Curriculum

  • Identify the Main Types of AIFree54m
  • Premium skill.Explore Prompt Engineering for Productivity 44m
  • Premium skill.Create Emails and Messages with Google Gemini46m
  • Premium skill.Create Entire Documents with Google Gemini45m
  • Premium skill.Create Entire Presentations with Google Gemini47m
  • Premium skill.Optimize Spreadsheets: Tables, Formulas, & Graphs49m
  • Premium skill.Use AI for Research, Learning, and More46m

For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

AI adoption can create uneven work quality when each department experiments with tools differently. AI Productivity for Professionals gives teams a shared, beginner-level baseline for using AI at work: identifying common AI types, writing productivity-focused prompts, and applying Google Gemini to everyday communication, documents, presentations, spreadsheets, research, and learning tasks.

For an IT Director, Training Manager, or Team Lead, this is a practical assignment for mixed technical and non-technical teams that need consistent AI fluency without a large time commitment. The course is approximately 5.5 hours per learner, making it realistic for onboarding, departmental enablement, or a short AI upskilling initiative. It is especially useful when change management requires common vocabulary and repeatable workflows before broader AI tool adoption. CBT Nuggets Playlists can help sequence this training by team or role, while Team Reporting helps leaders track completion across assigned learners.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to help departments turn AI from ad hoc experimentation into repeatable workplace productivity habits. The course focuses on common business tasks where teams often lose time: writing, summarizing, researching, presenting, and working with spreadsheets.

  • Faster communication workflows: Teams practice using AI productivity tools to draft emails and messages, reducing time spent on routine business communication.
  • More efficient document production: Learners apply AI to create entire documents, helping teams move from outline to usable draft more quickly.
  • Improved presentation turnaround: Teams learn how AI tools can support presentation prep, useful for project updates, stakeholder briefings, and internal enablement.
  • Better spreadsheet productivity: Learners explore AI support for tables, formulas, and graphs, helping analysts and operations staff work more efficiently with structured data.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • Main types of AI and how they relate to workplace productivity use cases.
  • Prompt engineering concepts that improve the usefulness of AI responses.
  • How Google Gemini can support emails, messages, documents, and presentations.
  • Ways AI can assist with spreadsheet tasks, including tables, formulas, and graphs.
  • How AI can support research, learning, and information-gathering workflows.

Ability

  • Build clearer prompts for everyday productivity tasks.
  • Use Google Gemini to draft emails and professional messages.
  • Create full documents with AI assistance instead of starting from a blank page.
  • Generate presentation content with AI support.
  • Apply AI assistance to spreadsheet optimization tasks.
  • Use AI as a research and learning aid for work-related questions.

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