AI for Everyday Work

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Learn to use AI tools to organize, schedule, and analyze faster and automate tasks. This hands-on course is built for anyone who wants to work efficiently. It covers practical, responsible ways to save hours each week on everyday tasks, with no technical background required.

Emails, meeting notes, calendars, reports, spreadsheets: you 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 and analyze data, 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 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

In this course, the main focus will be on Microsoft Copilot, but other AI tools such as Claude will be covered as well.

Who should enroll
Anyone who wants to work efficiently, save time, stay organized, and get ahead by using AI more effectively in their daily work. The course is especially useful if your work involves communication, coordination, scheduling, projects, reports, spreadsheets, events, or keeping multiple priorities moving. No prior AI experience is needed, but participants should have basic computer skills and be comfortable using common workplace applications.

CUNY staff may explore financial aid through DC37 Education Fund or HEO-CLT Professional Development fund.

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. You’ll be ready to blaze a trail of efficiency in your workplace, become the person others turn to when they need to get things done, and build a reputation as your office’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

Section 1

Times: 12:30-01:30 p.m.
Total Hours: 15
Cost: $395
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Section 2

Times: 06:30-07:30 p.m.
Total Hours: 15
Cost: $395
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Certificate: Upon completion, you will receive a Lehman College SCPS certificate "AI for Everyday Work".