AI training for managers: a shared language for making the decisions

The price of AI training for managers is set per assignment, and a few things govern it. How many are to take part, and whether it is one occasion or several when both the management team and a layer of line managers are to go through it. How long the half day is to be. Whether it is held with you or online, and in the case of a visit, how far we travel. How much preparation is included, meaning how closely the half day is built around the questions already on your desk. Tell us what it looks like with you and we will work it out.

Yes. In a municipality or a public authority the decisions concern the same things as in a company, but the material looks different. The examples are therefore taken from the administration's own working week: casework, disclosure requests, consultation responses and decision documents, and the questions you practise asking are the ones a public sector management actually gets from the organisation and from suppliers. Organisations that have trained their staff with us include DIGG, the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Swedish Chemicals Agency, the Swedish Performing Arts Agency, Vänersborg District Court, Region Stockholm, Landskrona Municipality, the Job Security Foundation, Swedavia, SAS, Angelini Pharma Nordics, CWS and Groupe Salins.

Yes. AIUC submits tenders in public procurements and delivers on call-offs. Tell us how you buy and we will say what is required from our side.

The number of participants is set per assignment, and in AI training for managers a small group is a feature and not a limitation: a management team does not speak openly in a room holding the whole organisation. A small management team is therefore never too small. The same content can also be taken one to one or in a small circle if that suits better, because not everyone wants to learn something new in front of their own staff. You do not have to explain why.

It is a half day for those of you who decide what the organisation should do, and who need to be able to ask the right questions of the people who will do it. You go through what the technology actually does, what it costs to introduce, where others have failed and what is reasonable to expect. You also try the tools yourselves, because claims about them are hard to judge otherwise.

After a half day of AI training for managers you should be able to judge whether a proposal is reasonable and which answers from a supplier ought to give you pause, what is reasonable to expect of the technology today and which timetables tend to slip, which questions about confidentiality, liability and quality need answers before anything is rolled out, and which measures say something rather than merely looking good in a report.

No. A half day of AI training for managers works best before the decisions have been made, because the point is that you should be able to test the proposals rather than defend them. We do want to know in advance which questions are already on your desk, since the half day is built around them.

An AI workshop teaches participants to do something: they sit for a whole day with their own work tasks and work practically. AI training for managers is about judging the proposals about the tools, not about learning the tools. A short practical element is still included, because the rest becomes abstract otherwise. Many organisations do both, in different groups.

Training the management team is one of the measures the AI literacy requirement is about, and in a management team AI literacy is mostly about judging proposals, suppliers and risk rather than writing prompts. The requirement is to take measures and be able to show them, not to guarantee a particular level, so the organisation gets a delivery log of what was done and who took part. Whether personal records of completion are issued is agreed in the order, and depends on the session including work the participants do themselves. What the regulation requires legally of your operations is covered by Ampliro.

No, and we should not. A legal assessment of your operations, a classification of your systems or a review of which obligations are yours is a different assignment, and that question belongs to Ampliro. What AI training for managers does is make sure you can ask the questions and judge the answers yourselves, on a better basis. If the conversation crosses that line during the half day, we say so.

AI Utbildningscentrum (AIUC) runs AI training for management teams for exactly that situation. The half day shows which AI questions only the management can answer: what to prioritise, who carries the responsibility and which risk is acceptable. IT can prepare the material but cannot make the decisions. Three hours is usually enough, and the person ordering does not have to sit on the management team.

Yes. The assistants around a management team, often executive assistants, work in the same inboxes, calendars and documents as the management team and see material few others see. AI Utbildningscentrum therefore runs a shorter training for them, built on their own tasks: long email threads, replies in the manager's name, agendas and meeting follow-up, documents and presentations, and what must never be entered into a tool. Three hours is enough for them to practise. It can be scheduled alongside the management team's half day, so that the management team and those who support it work from the same picture.