Formats
Five shapes. Each has a real limitation and it is listed, because picking the wrong format is the most common reason training does not stick.
Half day
3.5 hours- Who
- One team, or a mixed group meeting AI properly for the first time.
- Covers
- The four core modules.
- Strength
- The cheapest way to get a whole team to a shared baseline and stop the quiet unmanaged use.
- Limit
- Not enough time for much hands-on beyond the core exercises. People leave capable, not fluent.
Full day
6.5 hours with breaks- Who
- A department, or a group with a specific set of tasks in common.
- Covers
- Core plus three or four modules chosen for the room.
- Strength
- The format we recommend most. Enough hands-on time that people hit real problems while we are still there.
- Limit
- A long day. Attention genuinely drops after lunch, so the afternoon is weighted to doing rather than listening.
Two half days, a fortnight apart
3.5 hours × 2- Who
- Teams who can afford the calendar but not a whole day out.
- Covers
- Core in session one, chosen modules in session two.
- Strength
- The best learning outcome of any format, by some distance. People try things in the gap, fail, and bring real questions to session two.
- Limit
- Needs someone to hold the middle. Without a nudge, most of the room does nothing in the gap and session two becomes revision.
Train the trainer
Full day plus materials- Who
- Organisations large enough to need this repeatedly across sites or intakes.
- Covers
- The full curriculum, plus facilitation notes, exercises and the slide deck to keep.
- Strength
- Cheapest per head at scale, and your internal trainer knows your context better than we ever will.
- Limit
- Only works if the person is genuinely a trainer. Subject knowledge without facilitation skill produces a worse session than ours.
Ongoing clinic
One hour, monthly- Who
- Teams who have done a workshop and want the momentum to survive.
- Covers
- No fixed agenda. People bring what they are stuck on.
- Strength
- This is where the real adoption happens. The workshop opens the door; the clinic is what stops it closing.
- Limit
- Pointless without a prior workshop, and pointless if nobody attends. We will tell you if attendance says stop.
Group size
Under 8Works, but the group exercises lose energy. Consider combining teams.
8 to 16The sweet spot. One facilitator can get to everyone during hands-on time.
17 to 24Doable with a second facilitator. Without one, the hands-on portion degrades into a demo.
Over 24We will suggest splitting it. A room of forty is a presentation, and presentations do not change behaviour.
On site or remote
On site is better and it is not close. The hands-on portion depends on someone noticing that a person in the third row has been stuck for four minutes and is too polite to say. That does not happen on a video call.
Remote works if you cap it at twelve, insist on cameras during exercises, and accept it will run longer for the same content. For distributed teams it is the only option and it is a reasonable one.
We are Melbourne based. Anywhere in Victoria is straightforward; interstate is fine with travel costs at actual cost, no margin on flights.
What each role gets out of it