AI & Generative AI Training

AI & Generative AI Training

Practical AI skills for people who use AI at work, not for people who build it — live online, for individuals and teams worldwide.

Generative AI training teaches you to use tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Claude competently and safely in your actual job — writing, research, spreadsheets, presentations, customer queries — without needing to write a line of code or understand how a large language model works under the hood. It is the search term most people type when they realise a one-off video tutorial is not going to build a reliable skill, and start looking for structured AI training online instead.

This cluster covers the practical, non-technical end of AI skills: AI literacy for individuals who want to work faster and more accurately, AI for business teams who need a shared standard for responsible AI, and AI for professionals who want to build their own lightweight assistants without engineering support. All of it runs live online, so a course cohort based in Bristol sits alongside colleagues dialling in from Lagos or Abuja in the same session.

  • AI Training Online
  • Generative AI Training
  • AI for Professionals
  • AI for Business
  • AI Literacy
  • Responsible AI

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The programmes behind this topic.

CPP-01

Dates being confirmed

Microsoft Copilot for Everyday Work

1 dayLive onlineAbsolute beginner

Get productive with Microsoft 365 Copilot fast — prompting, drafting, summarising and everyday use across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, alongside ChatGPT and Claude for comparison. No coding, no assumed experience.

£245per seat

What you'll learn

  • Use Microsoft 365 Copilot confidently for real, everyday tasks
  • Draft, summarise and polish documents, emails and reports in minutes
  • Build presentations, plans and spreadsheet formulas from a plain-English request

CPP-02

Dates being confirmed

Getting Started with AI Agents & Automation

1 dayLive onlineBeginner

What an AI agent actually is, where automation genuinely helps, and your first build in n8n, Power Automate or Copilot Studio — the on-ramp into AI Automation & Agentic Business Systems.

£245per seat

What you'll learn

  • Understand what makes something an "agent" rather than a chatbot or a simple automation
  • Recognise good and bad use cases for agents and automation in everyday work
  • Build a first working automation or simple agent in n8n, Power Automate or Copilot Studio

AB-730

Dates being confirmed

AI Fluency for Every Employee

1 day, live onlineLive onlineBeginner · no coding

The official Microsoft course AB-730T00: Transform business workflows with generative AI, delivered live by a Microsoft Certified Trainer. For anyone who uses Microsoft 365 day to day — you leave able to use Copilot and its agents confidently and responsibly in real business tasks, and prepared to sit the AB-730 exam.

£795per seat or 3 × £265 interest-free

What you'll learn

  • Use Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents such as Researcher and Analyst with confidence
  • Write, save, schedule and share effective prompts
  • Recognise fabrications, over-reliance and data-protection risks

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Guides in this topic.

Questions

Common questions.

What is generative AI training?

Generative AI training teaches people to use tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Claude competently in their day-to-day work — prompting effectively, checking output for accuracy, and using AI safely with company data. It does not involve coding or building AI systems; that is a separate discipline covered in Cloudpilar Academy's technical programmes.

Who needs AI literacy training?

Anyone whose job involves writing, analysing, presenting or communicating benefits from AI literacy training, which covers most office-based roles. It is aimed at absolute beginners and professionals, not developers, and requires no prior technical background.

What does AI for Business training cover that individual AI for Professionals training does not?

AI for business training, such as AI Fluency for Every Employee (AB-730), builds a shared standard across a whole team, combining practical AI skills with responsible AI use and data-handling judgement, and prepares attendees for Microsoft's AB-730 exam. Training aimed at individual professionals focuses on personal productivity with AI tools rather than organisation-wide consistency.

Is responsible AI part of Cloudpilar Academy's AI training courses?

Yes. Every AI training course in this cluster covers using AI tools responsibly — verifying output, protecting confidential data and understanding the limits of AI-generated content — alongside the practical skills of prompting and everyday use.

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