Course Outline: Writing and Personal Productivity with ChatGPT

Duration: One Day

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how ChatGPT works and its limitations and uses
  • Control the output of ChatGPT with smart prompting techniques
  • Use ChatGPT to imrove and enhance your writing skills
  • Write a range of business emails with the assistance of ChatGPT
  • Write reports, proposals and other documents with the assistance of ChatGPT
  • Use enhanced research and data visualisation techniques with ChatGPT
  • Create simple writing apps with ChatGPT to save time
  • Use free AI tools to create images, videos, audio and more


Approach

The course begins by explaining the fundamentals of AI and the fundamentals of writing with AI. There is particular emphasis on the RIGHT way and the WRONG way to use ChatGPT. There is then a series of workshops throughout the day. The first workshop focuses on integrating AI prompts into a smart writing approach - using AI to enhance writing skills rather than replace them. The second workshop focuses on long-form writing, such as reports and proposals. The third and final workshop expands the participants' AI horizons beyond ChatGPT with a series of highly effective multimedia tools. Participants will even learn to produce an AI podcast using the notes from the course.

*Note that only the FREE versions of ChatGPT and other tools are required for the training.



Course Outline

Module 1: AI and ChatGPT Basics

Most people have a very limited understanding of how AI works, even if they use it every day! In the introductory segment, we will explain basic AI concepts in a clear way, cutting through the jargon. We will also look at some of the mistakes untrained people make when writing with AI and the issues that this can cause.

  • How does ChatGPT work? What can you do with it?
  • What is AI? Is it actually intelligent?
  • Limitations and misconceptions of ChatGPT
  • Common mistakes people make with ChatGPT
  • Some AI best practices

Module 2: Workshop - Essentials of Good Writing Assisted by AI

We will show how a series of daily tasks can be enhanced through the use of AI, while examining the fundamentals of good writing and ensuring that we get good quality output.

  • Recognising a modern style of writing - clear, direct and effective
  • Using ChatGPT to enhance, evaluate, proofread, fact-check and strengthen a text
  • Using ChatGPT to assist with a range of business emails
  • Techniques for controlling ChatGPT's output - the notes technique, the PARTS technique, the ask-me technique, the modelling technique, working with templates
  • Using ChatGPT for ideation
  • Using ChatGPT for research with cited sources
  • Using ChatGPT to change writing styles (e.g. technical to less technical)

Module 3: Workshop - Evaluation and Advanced Techniques

The next workshop moves on to more advanced techniques, which can be used to create long-form documents such as reports or proposals. We will explore the concept of 'interrogating documents' and we will apply these techniques to a business simulation, a product pitch.

  • Using ChatGPT to complete a short report or proposal
  • Interrogating single and multiple documents
  • Strengthening a PowerPoint
  • Simulation: Preparing and Practising a Pitch

Module 4: Multimedia Workshop

The final workshop looks at creating multimedia using ChatGPT or other free AI apps. With all of these skills, participants will be able to create viral social posts without the need for graphic designers or sound/video editors.

  • Creating images with CoPilot/Ideogram
  • Turning the image into a video
  • Adding music and voice-overs
  • Stitching it all together
  • Creating a podcast using the notes from this course
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