AI at Work Practice Exercises

Fifteen hands-on exercises in choosing a good task for AI, protecting private details, writing a clear request, and checking and fixing what comes back, with answer notes. Works on paper or in any approved tool.

Who it is for

• Trainers building practical AI skills sessions for non-technical staff

• Managers and supervisors whose teams already use AI tools for emails, summaries and documents

• HR and operations staff rolling out AI use guidelines and wanting people to practice them

• Small-business owners who want staff to use AI safely and well

The problem it solves

Most AI mistakes at work are small and preventable: a customer's details pasted into a tool, a wrong date in a reply, a discount the business never offered, a summary that gives an action to the wrong person. A policy alone does not prevent them; practice does. These exercises give people realistic material to work with, and build privacy and review steps into every single exercise so they become routine. Every exercise runs on paper with sample outputs, so you can teach safe habits before anyone opens a tool, and none of them depends on a particular product.

What is inside

• Copyright, how to use the pack and terms explained (3 pages)

• Guide (3 pages): the four habits, safe practice rules for sessions, running the exercises, and common mistakes

• Exercise chooser (1 page)

• 15 exercises (15 pages): each with purpose, timing, group size, materials, steps including a privacy step and a review step, the words to say, debrief questions, local examples, a virtual version and what to watch for

• Write your own exercise template (2 pages): blank and filled in

• Exercise sheets (8 pages): all practice material, ready to print

• Answer notes (2 pages): for every exercise

• Editable Word file (16 pages): sheets, answer notes and template

How to use it

1. Agree the safe practice rules with the group: practice material only, approved tools only.

2. Choose exercises by habit from the chooser, or follow the 60-minute session or four-week series in the guide.

3. Run each exercise on paper first; add a live round in an approved tool if you have one.

4. Compare answers in pairs, then share the answer notes and connect each habit to real work.

Formats and file types

• PDF guide, exercises, sheets and answer notes, 34 pages, US Letter

• Word (.docx), exercise sheets, answer notes and template, editable

• Licensed for internal use by the purchasing organization

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