Overview
This one-day remote AI training course for business, with no prerequisites, gives you the keys to master generative AI, automate your processes and strengthen your impact. Sessions are opened on request, at a per-participant fee, whether you register in a personal capacity or through your company.
Why choose the Boosting business performance with AI course?
Because the day is not limited to getting you to discover a tool: it gets you to understand how AI works beyond buzzwords, simplified narratives and superficial analyses, then to critically evaluate the results it produces. The afternoon does in fact return to this in concrete terms, with the AI biases to be countered and the checking of results.
If you already use generative AI, alone or with your team, the challenge is no longer to discover it, but not to take its answers at face value: this means knowing how to judge them before reusing them in your work or sharing them with your colleagues.
From trying it out to a method
The day provides practical skills to integrate generative AI into your work and make it perform better. Among them are the "prompting" techniques that boost efficiency. As the afternoon is made up of practical and application exercises, what you work on there carries over to your role. The course is offered by Excelia Business School's Executive Education Centre.
Anticipating what AI will change
The course also has you get to grips with future developments in AI technologies: trends, potential advances and their implications for work. Finally, it prepares you to promote the use of AI in your team and in your organisation, in other words to become its internal ambassador. To get an idea of the subject first, discover what artificial intelligence changes in management careers or browse the blog articles devoted to artificial intelligence.
The skills targeted
The course aims to:
- Understand the capabilities of AI and how it works
- Critically evaluate the results produced by AI
- Master "prompting" techniques to improve efficiency at work
- Promote the use of AI within teams and organisations
A related need, centred on data rather than on generative AI, is covered by the Data4Value by Exceliaprime® course.
Curriculum
Over a 7-hour day, the course is followed remotely, without travel, in virtual classes and through self-study, under the supervision of a trainer. It is delivered in French or in English.
How you learn
The day combines three methods:
- An alternation between theoretical input and practical exercises
- Discussions and exchanges in virtual classes around professional situations
- Case studies, practical scenarios and feedback from experience
Two parts, eight sequences
The day takes place in two parts: the morning focuses on the functioning and capabilities of AI systems, the afternoon on practice, spanning prompting, creative exploration and the automation of routine tasks. The eight sequences unfold below, in the order of the day: five in the morning, three in the afternoon.
Artificial neural networks
Promises of Deep Learning, the turning point of 2012, the emergence of generative AI.
Knowing where generative AI comes from makes it possible to gauge its capabilities without relying on promises alone.
Large Language Models
Prediction, instruction following, conversations, context window.
Once you understand how these models predict, follow instructions and converse, you evaluate better what they answer.
Debate on intelligence
Emergent capabilities, process VS results, multimodality.
This debate between process and results helps to distinguish the way an AI proceeds from the result it delivers.
Capabilities of AI systems
Memory and RAG, creativity, reasoning, use of tools.
Where can generative AI find its place in your work? Each of these capabilities provides part of the answer.
Create and converse with a virtual interlocutor
Interactions with virtual agents.
Here you approach AI as an interlocutor.
Fundamentals of prompting
Interaction paradigm, essential rules, countering AI biases, practical exercises.
Prompting becomes concrete in this sequence, where the essential rules are put into practice through practical exercises.
Creative exploration
Navigating the space of possibilities, generating alternatives, application exercises.
At work, generating alternatives amounts to widening the range of options before deciding, which the application exercises allow you to put to the test.
Automate routine tasks
Using AI to automate routine tasks, content transformation, checking results.
The sequence shows how to entrust these tasks to AI and transform content, while checking the results.
Funding
The fee in brief
€390 net of tax per participant
1 day, or 7 hours, remotely
Sessions on request
How to fund it
Three schemes make it possible to fund the course, depending on whether you register on your own or through your company:
- Personal funds, if you fund the course yourself
- The skills development plan, which your company can draw on if it has fewer than 50 employees
- An OPCO (skills operator) that your company approaches as part of the National Employment Fund (FNE) funding
What your company gains from it
The teams trained understand what AI does, know how to judge what it produces, save time on routine tasks and can spread these uses around them. To train several teams, Excelia Business School also offers tailor-made in-company training.
At Excelia Executive Education, we offer personalised support to help every profile — company, employee, self-employed person or public sector employee — to make their training projects a reality by drawing on the most suitable funding schemes.
FAQ
Does the Boosting business performance with AI course require technical knowledge?
No, no technical knowledge is required: the course is accessible to all audiences with no prerequisites. The aim is to understand how AI works and what it is capable of, not to programme it.
Is the Boosting business performance with AI course followed entirely remotely?
Yes. The 7 hours take place remotely, between virtual classes and self-study, with a trainer who supervises the day. They alternate theoretical input, practical exercises, case studies and practical scenarios.
What is prompting, as worked on in the Boosting business performance with AI course?
Prompting refers to the techniques for interacting with AI that improve efficiency at work. The afternoon covers the interaction paradigm, the essential rules and how to counter AI biases, with practical exercises.
Is the Boosting business performance with AI course available in English?
Yes. It is offered in French as well as in English, and is followed remotely.
How can the Boosting business performance with AI course be funded?
Funding can come from personal funds, from the skills development plan for companies with fewer than 50 employees, or from an OPCO (skills operator). Sessions are held on request.
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Target audience
Training accessible to all audiences with no prerequisites.
