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Case Study

Hands-On AI Training

Participants learned to use AI for real business tasks in hands-on workshops

Challenge

Business professionals needed practical AI skills but found AI training too technical.

Solution

Hands-on AI workshops built around participants' real business tasks, delivered with Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices.

Outcome

Participants learned to use AI for real business tasks in hands-on workshops

Client Enterprise Ireland & LEOs
Industry Enterprise Training

Key Results

500+
Professionals Trained
95%
Workshop satisfaction
20+
Workshops Delivered

Figures from the training programme.

The challenge: practical skills, not theory

Business professionals knew AI mattered but found most training too technical to act on. They did not need an explanation of how the models work; they needed to leave a session able to use the tools on the work in front of them - proposals, research, summaries, planning.

What we ran

We delivered hands-on workshops built around real business tasks rather than concepts. Participants worked on their own examples during the session, with the tools open, so the skills were tied to work they recognised from the start.

Built around the work

Each workshop focused on tasks the room actually did, so people left with something they had already used once, not notes to apply later.

The result

More than 500 professionals have been trained across over twenty workshops, delivered with Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices, with workshop satisfaction at 95 per cent. The measure that matters is not attendance but application: people using the tools on their own work the next day.

Why it works

The training stays close to the work and light on theory. People adopt what they have used and seen work, so confidence comes from doing rather than from being told it is simple.

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