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Redirecting AI-Driven Productivity Gains into High-Value Business Activities

Course Summary

As organizations adopt AI to streamline operations, leaders face a critical challenge: ensuring time saved through efficiency gains is reinvested strategically. Without intentional direction, these productivity benefits can dissipate into low-value tasks. This course equips leaders with the mindset and frameworks to guide their teams in channeling AI-created capacity into innovation, strategic thinking, team development, and long-term productivity gains. Through interactive discussions, case studies, and exercises, participants will learn how to transform AI-driven efficiencies into sustainable competitive advantage.

Prerequisites
In order to succeed in this course, you will need:

  • Basic familiarity with AI concepts and applications
  • A strong desire to lead organizational strategy and change
  • Experience managing people, teams, or business processes
Purpose
Equip leaders with frameworks to reinvest AI-driven productivity gains into high-value strategic activities
Audience
Mid-to-senior level managers, team leads, and business executives responsible for driving business outcomes
Role
Business Leaders | Departmental Managers 
Skill level
Intermediate
Style
Lecture | Facilitated Discussions | Case Studies | Workshop
Duration
1 day
Related technologies
AI/ML | Business Strategy
 
Course objectives
  • Facilitate productive discussions about AI within your teams
  • Act as a change agent for AI adoption and innovation
  • Identify and mitigate ethical risks and biases in AI applications
  • Develop a clear business strategy for AI that aligns with organizational goals
  • Apply industry‑specific use cases to assess opportunities for business transformation
  • Confidently advise clients on AI strategies

What you'll learn:

In this course, you'll learn:
  • The AI Mindset Shift
    • Productivity does not equal Value Creation
    • AI-driven productivity is about doing higher-value work
    • Shifting from task completion to strategic impact
    • Auditing your team’s time
    • Identifying low-value, repetitive tasks
    • People-first approach
    • AI as an empowerment tool
  • Time as a Strategic Resource
    • The “Reinvestment Mindset” - why time is like capital
    • Innovation and strategy
    • Redirecting cognitive energy toward problem-solving
    • Team development and empowerment
    • Human strengths vs AI strengths
    • Gaining deeper client engagement
  • Business Strategy and Practical Application
    • Framing AI within a business strategy
    • Equipping leaders for client conversations
      • Opportunity framing, risk discussions, advisory stance
    • Leadership enablement and communicating AI Culture
      • Internal messaging, transparency, inclusion of employees in the journey
    • Working with executives
      • Strategy communication
      • Building business buy-in
    • Client engagement: using case studies and guiding frameworks to advise adoption
  • Leadership Practices for Redirecting Time
    • Setting clear priorities and guardrails for time reinvestment
    • Establishing metrics and accountability systems
    • Shaping culture: Moving from “busyness” to “impact”
  • Overcoming Barriers
    • Common barriers: cultural inertia, incentive misalignment, unclear priorities
    • Strategies: redesigning incentives, celebrating learning, empowering experimentation
  • Action Planning and Commitments
    • As a leader, how will you personally reinvest time saved?
    • Cascading expectations and frameworks
    • Finding opportunities for efficiency
    • Creating a continuous cycle for improvement

Redirecting AI-Driven Productivity Gains into High-Value Business Activities

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Real-World Content

Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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Expert Practitioners

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More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
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