AI for Administrative Professionals

Learn to use AI tools to organize, schedule, and analyze faster and automate tasks. This hands-on course is built for administrative professionals. It covers practical, responsible ways to save hours each week on everyday tasks, with no technical background required.
Emails, meeting notes, calendars, reports, spreadsheets: administrative professionals keep organizations running, and much of that work can now be done faster and better with AI. This hands-on course shows you how.
You’ll learn to use widely available AI tools to draft and polish communications, summarize long documents and meetings, organize information, plan schedules and events, and handle routine tasks in a fraction of the time. Just as important, you’ll learn to use AI responsibly: checking its work, protecting sensitive information, and knowing when a human touch matters most.
What you’ll learn
- Write clear, professional emails, memos and announcements in minutes
- Summarize documents, meetings and long email threads
- Organize data and create simple reports
- Streamline scheduling, event planning and everyday workflows
- Write effective prompts that get useful results
- Use AI safely, ethically and with sound judgment
- Build agents to help you automate tasks and workflows
Who should enroll
Administrative assistants, office managers, executive assistants, coordinators and anyone whose work involves communication, organization and keeping things moving. No prior experience with AI is needed.
What you’ll leave with
A personal toolkit of prompts and workflows you can use on the job right away, plus the confidence to become your team’s go-to resource for working smarter with AI.
Course details
- Format: online
- Duration: 4 months
- Dates: 01/12/2027 - 04/27/2027
- Days: Tuesdays
- Times: 12:30-01:30 p.m. (We may also offer an evening class based on requests. Fill out this form if interested.)
- Total Hours: 15
- Cost: $395
Certificate: Upon completion, you will receive a Lehman College SCPS certificate "AI for Administrative Professionals".
Registration will open soon. Meanwhile, you can fill out this form to pre-register.