AI as Your Practical Work Assistant
Everything you need to deliver this session without having presented it before. You do not need to be an AI expert. You need to be comfortable in front of a room and willing to rehearse once. Everything on the slides is pre-built. There is no live typing and nothing that can fail in front of an audience.
What you are actually arguing
It is not “AI is here, better learn it.” Everybody has heard that. The argument is narrower and more useful. Nearly everyone who has touched one of these tools has used it to write something faster — an email, a job posting, a letter to a customer. That is real. It is also the cheapest thing it does.
Almost nobody uses it to think: to work out why the same order keeps going short, why one builder’s jobs keep losing money, what to ask a vendor before signing. That gap is where the money is, and closing it takes no software and no IT project.
That is the whole session. The frameworks are just how you get there. If it helps to know where this comes from: the approach came out of a deployment where one executive, properly equipped, produced roughly $650,000 in measurable business value in eight months. Not a software rollout — one person using it on work that mattered.
Before you present
About twenty minutes of reading plus a fifteen-minute rehearsal. Tick these off as you go.
Fifteen-minute rehearsal
This is enough. You do not need to memorize anything.
If you want to run it live instead
Live typing is more compelling when it works and costly when it does not. If you choose to do it: open the tool and sign in beforehand, have the prompt copied and ready to paste, and keep the pre-built slide up as your fallback. If the answer comes back thin or strange, say so and move on — that is honest and it makes the point about reviewing output. Do not spend more than ninety seconds recovering.
Pick your examples
The deck ships with three examples in the main flow and three alternates in the appendix. Use the three that match the seats in front of you. Swapping just means jumping to an appendix slide instead of the built-in one. Your pick is marked in the slide list below.
Run sheet
Times are cumulative from the moment you start. Start the clock when you welcome the room and the current block stays highlighted, with how far ahead or behind you are running.
Slide by slide
Quoted lines in blue are suggested wording. Everything else is direction. These notes are also embedded in the .pptx under each slide, visible in Presenter View.
Questions they actually ask
Answer these straight and do not oversell.
If something goes wrong
None of these ends the session. Most of them help it.
What comes next
Attendees will ask what happens after this hour.
| Session 1 — the desks | Teaches the method. This session. |
| Session 2 — the same room, with laptops | Everyone builds one real prompt for a task they actually do, checks it, and saves it. Best run within a few weeks of this one, while the method is fresh. |
| Session 3 — owner or GM plus point people | Five decisions and a ninety-day plan. Needs about sixty days of real usage behind it, because it runs on an honest audit of what stuck. |
Download the files
All six Session 1 documents are built into this page. They download straight from here, with or without an internet connection.
