Upcoming Courses
County Tipperary Chamber Skillnet continues to evolve our online training offerings and our funded training supports to companies within the Tipperary Region via funding from Skillnet Ireland.
We specialise in facilitating training in the areas of Management Development, Leadership, Professional Skills, amongst other courses. We also provide a wide range of funded or co-funded QQI accredited training courses, personal and professional development programmes, seminars and workshops.
Please Note: Skillnet subsidise available to Republic of Ireland businesses only, and not available to state or semi-state bodies.
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(Our training programs are open to all private or commercial semi-state companies based in the Republic of Ireland.)
AI for Small Business - a business productivity training programme wrapped around AI tools that work straight away.
DATES: Wednesday January 15th, 22nd, 29th, February 5th & 12th 2025
VENUE: Online / Or In person on TUS Clonmel Campus.
TIME: 11am - 1pm
PRICE: €60 for all 5 sessions
Certificate of completion will be awarded to all participants who complete the required actions as set out by the Trainer.
These five sessions will provide you with fundamental skills that will enhance your sophistication when prompting an AI to help you become more productive. The trainer will lead you through a series of deep dives into generative AI where you will see how you can produce content, investigate nuances in large documents, and better understand the advantages and limitations of a wide variety of AI agents.
Session 1. Introduction to AI for Small Business
- Overview. Intro to five takeaways for business.
- Review five key takeaways for business.
- Learn 10 tips for using AI.
- Complete five hands-on activities.
Activity 1: Browse a knowledge vault.
Activity 2: Use Microsoft Copilot.
Activity 3: Use AI to find a venue based on an interior shot.
Activity 4: Build a slide deck from a string of text.
Activity 5: Join Flickr Digital Transformation Group.
- Preview next session. Discuss cost of ChatGPT+.
Session 2. Personal Digital Transformation
1. Review uploads to Flickr Digital Transformation Group.
2. Compare AI’s README meeting summary to PowerPoint 365’s summary.
3. HANDS-ON Image Creation for “About Me” for upload to Flickr.
4. Introduction to Personal Digital Transformation
- What is Digital Transformation?
- Important considerations
5. The Four-P Framework for Successful Digital Transformation
- PURPOSE: Exploring your use cases for AI
- PROGRAMS. Tools & applications to help your workflows
- PEOPLE: You & your people at the core of the process
- PROTOCOLS. Using platforms for digital transformation
6. Recap
Session 3. Insights and Knowledge Management
- Recap of Session Two, Tools, Terms, & Services
- Session 3 Workshop
- 2.1 PARA: A Method for Staying Organised with AI
- 2.2 Trustworthy AI Services & A Word of Caution
- 2.3 Applying a Four-Part Framework
- Purpose
Breakout to create image from text. Then upload to Flickr.
- Programs
Breakout with PDF Insight, Chatdoc, and Bing Image Creator
- People
- Protocols
- Wrap-up, preview, sources
Session 4. Business processes and Document Management
- Recaps of Session Three & Surveys
- Today’s Workshop
2.1 Trustworthy Tools on Desktop and Mobile
2.2 Limitations to Attention & Decision Making
2.3 AI & Business Processes
2.4 AI & Document Management
2.5 AI & Supply Chain Quality
2.6 Efficient & Effective Personal Productivity
- Wrapping up and preview of our final session
Session 5. Transformative AI Workflows
- Recap Session Four, Survey Results, Collab Word
1.1 Recap
1.2 Survey results
1.3 Compose content with Copilot
- Today’s Hands-on Workshops
2.1 Mindmaps with ChatGPT+ and Mindmeister
2.2 See PARA Method used with Obsidian
2.3 Remember PDF Insight?
2.4 Conversations with AI: Tips for Better Prompts
2.5 Convert Text To Speech with ChatGPT+
Breakout One: you try it
2.6 Demos of two AI video creation tools
2.7 Create video from text with Invideo AI
Breakout Two: you try it
2.8 Five other video production tools
Tools Used during Training
HANDS-ON Bing Image Creator
HANDS-ON ChatGPT-4o
DEMO Claude.ai
DEMO Filmora
DEMO Fabric AI
DEMO Feedly AI
DEMO Google NotebookLM
HANDS-ON Google Lens
HANDS-ON GPT Excel
HANDS-ON Invideo.io
HANDS-ON GPT Voice Generator AI
HANDS-ON GPT PDF Insight
DEMO Magisto AI
HANDS-ON Microsoft Copilot
DEMO GPT Mindmap Markdown
DEMO Napkin.one
DEMO Notion AI
DEMO Obsidian
DEMO Otter.ai
HANDS-ON Perplexity.ai
HANDS-ON Slido
DEMO Vyond
DEMO Zoho AI
DEMO Zoom AI
Trainer: Bernie Goldbach
Please note that all courses will be conducted contingent upon funding being received and achieving a sufficient number of enrolled learners. If the minimum enrolment threshold is not met, the course may be postponed or cancelled. Enrolled learners will be notified of any changes in a timely manner.
Training Cancellation Policy
Training courses which are cancelled over 7 days in advance of scheduled training date shall incur no cancellation fee. Training courses which are cancelled within 7 days of scheduled training date shall incur a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the cost. Registrants who give less than 24 hours notice or fail to attend training will be charged 100% of the full fee.
