AI Training for Employees
Professional and customized AI training for your company's employees, tailored to your specific needs.
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AI in Day-to-Day Business — Where Departments Stand Today
In most medium-sized companies, AI has long since made its way into the departments —albeit through the back door. Employees are experimenting on their own with ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude, often using personal accounts and handling confidential company data. This is understandable, but risky—legally, in terms of data protection, and economically.
Our AI training for employees addresses this very issue. We meet your teams where they are—from the first prompt to the meaningful integration of these tools into their daily work. Instead of general AI theory, we focus on specific tasks from your day-to-day operations: the job posting HR is drafting this week. On the draft proposal that Sales needs tomorrow. On the balance sheet analysis that the Controlling department prepares every month.
Starting in February 2025, structured training for your employees on how to use AI will no longer be optional—it will be a requirement under the EU AI Act. Those who ignore this risk not only fines but also real data breaches stemming from shadow IT.
Why provide role-specific AI training for employees instead of general AI training?
The greatest impact doesn’t come from spectacular use cases, but from daily repetition. A marketing manager who saves 30 minutes on each press release regains two full work weeks per year. A recruiter who writes job postings in half the time can handle twice as many open positions. We build our training programs on this logic: fewer showcases, more practical tools for what your teams do every day anyway.
General “AI awareness” training often fails because it isn’t specific enough for anyone. A marketing manager needs different tips than an HR manager—and both need different examples than a financial controller. Putting everyone in the same training session loses the attention of one half of the group and overwhelms the other.
Our solution: a shared foundational session, followed by role-specific in-depth training. This way, your teams build a shared vocabulary and then delve deeper into the areas where it makes a difference in their day-to-day work.
Goals of the AI Training for Employees
After the training, your employees will be proficient in the tools they need to use AI responsibly and productively in their day-to-day work. Specifically:
Safe Prompting in German & English
How do I phrase a prompt so that the AI provides useful results—and doesn't hallucinate? A structured prompt library to take with you.
Choosing Tools with Good Judgment
ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and German alternatives. We’ll show you which tool is best suited for which task—and which ones aren’t.
Data Protection in Everyday Life
What can and can't be included in the tool? How do I identify confidential data? Which tools are GDPR-compliant?
Use Cases You Can Implement Right Away
For each participant, specific use cases from their own daily work that can be put to productive use immediately after the training.
Custom Workflow Integration
Where can I effectively integrate AI into my tools (Outlook, Excel, the CRM, the HR system)?
Recognizing Boundaries
In what situations does AI reliably provide false information? In what situations must a human necessarily double-check the results? In what situations is the use of AI not legally permitted (e.g., automated rejection of job applicants)?
Format and Schedule of the AI Training for Employees
Our training sessions are as concise as possible and as comprehensive as necessary. We respect your teams’ work time.
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Standard format: 1 day of fundamentals + 0.5 day of role-specific in-depth workshop (1.5 days total)
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Group size: Max. 12 participants, so that questions can be addressed individually. For larger teams, we divide participants into parallel groups or offer modular follow-up sessions.
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Delivery: Remote (via Teams or Zoom), on-site at your location, or hybrid
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Follow-up Consultation: Optional, 4 weeks after the training—participants bring any open questions from their day-to-day work. This session ensures knowledge transfer and, based on experience, is the most valuable component.
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Training Certificate: Each participant receives a certificate of attendance detailing the course content—relevant for Article 4 of the EU AI Act and your company’s documentation requirements.
Sample Agenda for a Training Day
This is what a typical training day looks like. The content will always be coordinated with your team and your department head before the training begins.
Morning — Fundamentals (for everyone together)
- 9:00 a.m. — Introduction: Where does your company stand on AI? Clarifying expectations
- 09:30 — How does an LLM work? Explained in simple terms, without math
- 10:15 — Prompting in practice: Strategically balancing consistency and creativity
- Achieving consistent, reproducible results—and when more creativity makes sense
- The best tricks for avoiding unnecessary tokens
- Second Lever: Consciously Managing Context (What Belongs and What Doesn’t)
- Live exercises
- 11:00 — Break
- 11:15 — Data Protection & the EU AI Act: An Overview for Orientation (we provide guidelines, not a legal assessment)
- 12:00 — Overview of the tool landscape & model selection: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini
- When to use a frontier model, and when to use a small/specialized model (SLM)? — Cost, speed, data protection, and task as decision-making criteria
Afternoon — Role-Specific In-Depth Sessions (in subgroups)
- 1:00 PM — Practical Inspiration: Case Studies from Our Company & Daily Work — What Specifically Works for Us, as a Source of Ideas for Your Own Applications
- 2:00 PM — Teaching Agentic Skills: Don’t Just Ask AI—Put It to Work — Fundamentals so participants can implement their own use cases
- 3:30 PM — Break
- 3:45 PM — Integrating workflows into existing tools (Outlook, CRM, etc.)
- 4:30 PM — Developing Your Own Use Cases: Initial ideas for your own daily work, closing Q&A
- 5:00 PM — End
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Frequently Asked Questions About AI Training for Departments
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Which employees should participate in AI training?
Basically, anyone who uses or will use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Claude in their day-to-day work—which, realistically, means almost every department. We recommend starting with the departments where initial AI experiments are already underway (typically marketing, HR, and sales). That’s where the impact is greatest and training is most urgent—also from the perspective of the EU AI Act.
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Can we tailor the training to our industry and tools?
Yes, that is our standard procedure. Before each training session, we conduct a preliminary discussion to assess your industry, the tools you use (which AI licenses do you have?), and the typical tasks your teams perform. The examples and exercises are then specifically tailored to these factors.
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Do we have to train all departments at the same time, or can we do it in modules?
In fact, a modular approach is the norm. You typically start with 1–2 departments, gain experience, and then roll it out to other teams. We recommend a common foundational module for everyone, followed by role-specific advanced training—this helps establish a shared vocabulary throughout the company.
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How do you handle confidential work documents during training sessions?
Participants may bring their own anonymized working documents, if they wish. These will be used locally during the training and will not be imported into our tools. Upon request, we will sign an NDA prior to the training. In the section of the training covering data protection and compliance, we explicitly address which data may be entered into which tools—and which may not.
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Do participants receive a certificate of completion for the EU AI Act?
Yes. Each participant receives a written certificate of participation that includes the date, course content, and duration. This certificate is suitable for internal compliance documentation in accordance with Article 4 of the EU AI Act and can be used in the event of an official audit.
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How quickly can an initial training session be implemented?
Typically within 4–6 weeks after the initial consultation. This includes a needs assessment, coordination of content with your department heads, and the training itself. If there is an urgent compliance need, we can also get started sooner.
prodot: Your Partner for AI Training
prodot isn’t a traditional training provider—we’re a software and AI service provider with over 25 years of experience. Our trainers come from consulting and development backgrounds and teach topics they use themselves every day.
Practice, not theory. Our trainers work day in and day out with the very same AI tools they teach. They know where the tools excel and where they fall short—from firsthand experience, not from textbooks.
End-to-end support. We don’t just provide training; upon request, we can also assist with tool selection, license procurement, and company-wide implementation. Everything from a single source.