AI for business breakthroughs (26 September 2025)

This high-impact taster session gives attendees a hands-on glimpse into how AI can transform their workday. In under an hour, participants will see live demos, try practical prompts, and discover how tools like ChatGPT can save time, sharpen decision-making, and supercharge productivity.

From writing emails and reports to preparing meetings and generating ideas, this session shows AI in action. Attendees leave with real value—new skills, fresh insights, and a clear sense of what the full course offers. It’s fast, focused, and immediately useful.

What’s in it for you?

• A practical feel for what AI can do in their daily work
• A taste of the full-day course experience
• Valuable tools and prompt techniques they can apply straight away

Agenda

(10.00 – 10.45)

1. Welcome & Icebreaker: “Automate the Agony”

• Quickfire: What’s one repetitive or frustrating task you’d gladly automate?
• Purpose: Hook interest and surface relatable pain points
• Link: “What if AI could take that off your plate?”

2. AI in Action: Real Tasks, Real Time

• Live Demo: Show ChatGPT or CoPilot writing a professional (and difficult) email from messy notes
• Power Move: Summarise a meeting transcript or complex doc in seconds
• How to ask AI to suggest ideas for a proposal, business plan, marketing idea or visual for a slide

3. Interactive Exercise: Prompt Like a Pro

Participants try short prompts in pairs (e.g., “Rewrite this email”, “step by step” “, Summarise this meeting”)

Introduce three core prompt types:

o Role-based (“Act as a sales coach…”)

o Instructional (“List five steps to…”)

o Comparative (“Compare option A vs B…”)

4. Rapid Review: 5 Real Business Applications

• Flash tour through how AI supports:

1. Creating PowerPoint presentations and slides

2. Meeting prep and decision-making

3. Report editing and formatting, producing audio from text

4. Spreadsheet summarisation and insight

5. Idea generation and innovation support

5. Try It Now: Choose Your Task

• Participants pick one of the five tasks above and try it live using an AI tool.
• The facilitator supports, offers mini-coaching, and shares valuable tips.

6. Wrap Up and What’s Next

• Share 3 “quick start” takeaways
• Highlight the full-day course benefits, including hands-on practice, toolkits, and coaching.
• Offer a teaser: “We go deeper into 10 prompt types, roleplays, and AI strategy…”

Free registration

This webinar, one of a series, is completely free of charge – just make sure you book well in advance to get the ‘joining instructions’ and to be sure of a place. Click 'Add to calendar' above before you click the green ‘Register’ button, above. The session will be held on Zoom, so remember to look out for the secure password we will email you an hour before the session begins.

Please don’t forget to attend – the session will not be recorded.

Feedback

This webinar is delivered by Graham Roberts-Phelps, one of our most popular trainers. See some of the feedback he’s had recently from delivering these webinars:

‘Extremely well presented and structured’

‘Full of useful hints and tips which I will apply to my job.’

‘Graham has a great attitude, a wealth of knowledge and is always referring to real life examples and in most cases his own examples.’

‘Graham is obviously experienced in front line sales and negotiation roles which comes across – good presentation style and very engaging.’

‘Graham was exactly what you want from a trainer – very knowledgeable, the practical experience to back up the skills/techniques being covered, engaging and very approachable.’

‘Graham was very approachable and made everyone feel at ease. Graham was also engaging and the pace and the break-out sessions worked well to keep the momentum up.’

‘Some good negotiation pointers no matter what level of sales you are at.’

‘The course was tailored around our business which helped when completing the role play activities.’