AI Training & Adoption, Newcastle and the Hunter
Your whole team using AI.
Safely, and for good.
Most teams already use AI. Usually a few people, on their own accounts, with no agreed rules. We start with a half-day Kickstart Workshop, then run a 12-week program that trains each role on its own real work, puts the guardrails in writing, and finishes with a list of what to automate next.
In person
At your premises across Newcastle and the Hunter
Online
Shorter blocks for teams anywhere in Australia
By role
Finance, admin, sales, field and leadership sessions
Why it adds value
Why training on its own doesn't work, and what does
Everyone, not just the keen few
Most businesses have two or three people using AI well and a room full of people who quietly gave up. Role-based sessions on real work close that gap.
Guardrails from week one
A written, plain English AI usage policy and a register of the tools in use, set up at the start so nobody has to guess what is safe to share.
It sticks
Adoption is a slow, human process. Short weekly sessions over twelve weeks, internal champions and a readiness check at the start and the end are how habits actually change.
You finish with a list
Every question your team asks along the way is a clue about what to automate. We collect them, so the program ends with a report of your best opportunities, ready for the audit.
This is for you if
- Two or three people are using AI well and everyone else has quietly given up
- Staff are using their own ChatGPT or Claude accounts to deliver work, and nobody set the rules
- You suspect client information is being pasted into tools you never approved
- You are paying for licences that almost nobody logs into
- Your team sat through a webinar, nodded along, and changed nothing
- You want AI used across the business, but you do not want to be the one policing it
- Your team is busy, and anything that looks like homework will not get done
Free, six minutes
Not sure where your business stands with AI?
Take the AI Readiness Check before you decide on training. Two honest scores, where you are today and whether the groundwork is there to move, plus three things to do this week. Bring the result to your Problem First Call and we start from your answers.
Two ways in
Start small, then make it stick
A half day gets people curious. Three months changes how they work. Most businesses do both, in that order.
AI Kickstart Workshop
Half a day, your whole team
A hands-on session on your real work: what AI can do for your business, what it cannot, and the basics of using it safely. People leave with a quick win each and a lot of questions. Those questions are the point.
12-Week Training & Adoption Program
Three months, short weekly sessions
Leadership kickoff, readiness check, policy and register from week one, champions, role-based sessions, a growing skill library, and a second readiness check plus an opportunity report at the end. This is where habits actually change.
Inside the 12-week program
Seven things that happen over three months
Training is one of them. The others are why it lands, and why it lasts.
Leadership kickoff
A short conversation with the owner and senior managers about what you want from AI, and what you are worried about. Then a kickoff session with the whole team where leadership says it out loud. That one moment does more for adoption than any slide.
Readiness check
A short survey and a few conversations covering how your team feels about AI, how much they already use it, and how they see their own roles changing. This is the baseline we measure against at the end.
Policy and register, from week one
A plain English AI usage policy: what is fine, what never goes in, what needs a second pair of eyes and who to ask. Plus a register of the AI tools in use and the data they touch, aligned to the Australian Government's Guidance for AI Adoption. Both mature as the program runs.
Champions
We identify the people in your team who are already curious and equip them properly, so questions get answered inside the business rather than waiting for us.
One-on-ones first, then weekly sessions by department
The first two to four weeks are short one-on-ones, in person or online, so each person is set up and working from the same base, and the common problems in each department surface early. From there it is one short group session a week per department, on that department's own work, with a quick win each week. Nobody falls behind on real work. Finance people learn on finance tasks. Admin learns on admin. Field staff learn on quotes and job notes.
Skill library and scheduled tasks
As sessions run, we build a library of prompts, workflows and scheduled tasks from your own recurring work. By week twelve it is a working asset, not a folder of examples.
Readiness check and opportunity report
We re-run the readiness check so you can see what changed, and hand over a report of the automation opportunities your team surfaced along the way. That list is the natural start of the AI & Automation Audit.
What you walk away with
A written AI usage policy and tool register
Plain English guardrails covering what is safe to share and what is not, with the tools in use and the data they touch.
A readiness check, before and after
Confidence and usage measured at the start and the end, so the change is visible rather than assumed.
Role-based sessions delivered
Short, regular sessions built around what each part of your team actually does, in person or online.
A skill library and scheduled tasks
Reusable prompts, workflows and automated routines built from your own recurring work.
Named internal champions
Two or three people equipped to support everyone else once the program ends.
An opportunity report
The automation ideas your team raised over twelve weeks, collected and ready to be ranked in the audit.
Timeframe and next steps
The Kickstart Workshop is half a day. The Training & Adoption Program runs for twelve weeks, with short weekly sessions so your team keeps working while they learn.
Both are scoped to your team size and how many roles need their own sessions. Software licences are separate and held by you. Training is also included inside the Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO) service.
Common questions
It is enough to get people curious, comfortable and asking the right questions. It is not enough to change habits across a business. That is what the 12-week program is for. Most teams start with the Kickstart Workshop and move into the program once they see what is possible.
Your pathway
Where this sits, and what comes next
Four services, in the order most Hunter businesses follow. You can start at any step and stop at any step.
- Step 1 · You are here
AI Training & Adoption
Start here. Role-based training on your real work, with a written AI usage policy.
- Step 2 · Find
AI & Automation Audit
Every process scored on value and effort. Your top opportunities, ranked and quantified.
Learn more - Step 3 · Prove
Working Sessions
Bring the problem. Leave with it fixed, or proven. No homework.
Learn more - Step 4 · Lead
Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Senior AI leadership, owned month to month, without the full-time salary.
Learn more
Natural next step
AI & Automation Audit
As the team gets confident, the questions turn into a list of things worth automating. The audit ranks that list.
Ready to get your team confident with AI?
Fifteen minutes on how your team uses AI today, what is worrying you about it, and whether a half day or three months is the right first step.
15 minutes on Google Meet. Bring one problem, leave with a clearer view and a sensible next step.