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The AI-Powered Manager: 10x Your Team's Performance [JULY 13TH]
Leadership IQ
Use AI to save time, make better decisions, and lead your team more effectively.
A program that teaches managers how to use AI for the real work of leadership: emails, meetings, reports, coaching, performance conversations, data analysis, presentations, and team productivity.
Managers already have AI. Now they need to know how to use it.
Most organizations have given employees access to AI tools, but the productivity gains are still uneven. Managers are experimenting with prompts, drafting the occasional email, and asking AI for quick summaries, but few have been trained to use it systematically for the work that actually fills their day.
This course shows managers how to turn AI from a scattered tool into a practical leadership advantage.
They'll learn how to use AI to communicate more clearly, analyze information faster, prepare for difficult conversations, improve team execution, and help their employees use AI responsibly.
What This Course Helps Managers Do
Practical AI skills for real managerial work
In this program, managers will learn how to use AI to:
Who It's For
Built for managers who need AI to produce better work, not gimmicks
This course is designed for managers, HR leaders, team leaders, and high-potential employees who want to use AI in practical, credible, business-focused ways.
It's especially useful for leaders who need to write faster, make sense of messy information, coach employees, improve communication, and help their teams adopt AI without confusion or resistance.
No technical background is required.
Featured Tools and Resources
You get practical tools you can use immediately
In addition to the course lessons, participants receive a set of tools, prompts, and scripts designed to make AI easier to apply at work.
4-Week Online Certificate Program
This cohort begins on Monday, July 13th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd. It's a 4-week course, but we're giving an extra two weeks to accommodate summer vacations.
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1: Strategic AI Leadership Foundation
Build the foundation every AI-powered manager needs: how these tools actually work under the hood, why most company AI rollouts stall, and how to become a genuine power user fast. You'll leave understanding both the technology and the leadership judgment that turns it into results.
- Crisis Leadership: Understanding AI's immediate impact on your industry and role-specific disruption patterns—featuring real CEO insights from Amazon and IBM on workforce reduction
- The Manager's AI Toolkit: Essential AI platforms every leader must master: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini (setup to practical use in 30 minutes)
- Prompt Engineering for Leaders: How to write prompts that get you exactly what you need—from strategic analysis to team communications
- Workforce Transformation Strategy: How to identify which roles on your team are at risk, which are AI-enhanced, and which are AI-immune
- ROI Leadership: Implementing AI strategies that deliver measurable productivity gains (case study: 37% faster completion with 20% better quality)
- Change Management for AI: Leading teams through AI adoption while maintaining morale and performance in an era of workforce reduction
- Strategic Decision-Making with AI: Using LLMs to generate strategic options, evaluate scenarios, and accelerate high-stakes decisions
Week 2: AI-Powered Communication and Team Management
Turn AI into a genuine force multiplier for everything managers write and run: reports, emails, reviews, meetings, and presentations. The focus here is producing work that sounds like you and stands up to scrutiny, not polished-looking slop that someone downstream has to fix.
- Executive Writing with AI: Crafting board reports, strategic memos, and executive updates 3x faster using ChatGPT and Claude with proven templates
- Email Mastery: Using AI to draft, respond to, and manage email communications—turning 2-hour email sessions into 30-minute focused work
- Meeting Productivity: AI-powered meeting preparation, agenda creation, and follow-up communications that keep teams aligned
- Performance Review Revolution: Using AI to write more thoughtful, personalized performance reviews and development plans (learning from IBM's 94% automation approach)
- Difficult Conversations: Using AI to craft sensitive communications—layoffs, restructuring, performance issues, and conflict resolution
- Team Communication Strategy: Scaling your communication impact across larger teams using AI-assisted messaging and announcements
- Presentation Creation: Using AI to build compelling presentations that influence stakeholders and drive decisions
Week 3: Data-Driven Leadership and Strategic Analytics
Use AI to make sharper decisions faster, without needing to be a data analyst. You'll turn spreadsheets, survey results, financial statements, and competitive intel into clear, defensible recommendations—and learn how to pressure-test what the AI gives you before you act on it.
- Spreadsheet Intelligence: Using ChatGPT and Claude to analyze Excel/Google Sheets data, create formulas, and generate insights from your existing data
- Strategic Analysis: Using AI to analyze financial statements, competitive reports, and market research in half the time with deeper insights
- Survey and Feedback Analysis: Using AI to quickly analyze employee surveys, customer feedback, and market research data for actionable insights
- Report Generation: Creating executive dashboards and summary reports using AI to synthesize complex data into clear recommendations
- Competitive Intelligence: Using AI to analyze competitor websites, press releases, and public information for strategic advantage
- Predictive Planning: Using AI to help with budget forecasting, resource planning, and scenario analysis
- Data Storytelling: Using AI to create compelling narratives around your data that influence decision-makers and drive action
Week 4: Team AI Implementation and Leadership Excellence
Take everything you've learned and scale it to your whole team. This is the part almost no course covers: the specific conversations, policies, and habits that get real people to adopt AI well, so the gains show up across the team instead of dying with one enthusiastic manager.
- Team AI Training Strategy: How to get your entire team using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini effectively—from onboarding to advanced use cases
- AI Workflow Integration: Implementing AI into your team's daily workflows without disrupting productivity or overwhelming anyone
- Policy and Guidelines: Creating simple, practical AI usage policies that encourage adoption while managing risk and maintaining quality
- Measuring AI Impact: Tracking productivity gains, time savings, and quality improvements from your team's AI adoption
- Scaling Success: Taking individual AI wins and scaling them across departments and the broader organization
- Budget Planning: Building business cases for AI tool subscriptions and training investments with clear ROI projections
- Future-Proofing Your Career: Positioning yourself as the AI-forward leader your organization needs as the workplace continues to transform
- Leading Through Change: Managing the human side of AI adoption—addressing fears, building confidence, and maintaining team morale during transformation
Course Logistics & Timeline
Each course in the program includes approximately 1 hour of video presentation. In addition to the video module, each week will include one assignment and one brief quiz to ensure you learned that week's content. Participants can expect to spend around 1.5 hours per week on viewing the video modules and coursework.
SPECIAL NOTE: This cohort begins on July 13, 2026. You may work ahead and you will not be penalized for falling behind, but ALL MODULES, ASSIGNMENTS, AND QUIZZES MUST BE COMPLETED BY 11:59 PM (PST) ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026. This is a 4-week program, but we're giving an extra two weeks to accommodate summer vacations. Certificates will not be issued if all coursework is not completed by the deadline.
