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AI for Managers & Team Leads

Decide, communicate, and lead AI adoption with more clarity, while keeping accountability where it belongs.

Hands-on with Claude and ChatGPT | 16 guided hours | Live online or in person

  • Prepare decisions and options with AI

  • Communicate clearly with your team

  • Spot where AI can help your team

  • Set simple, responsible AI guidelines

  • Choose a track for growing in your role or finding your next one

Target Audience

  • People managers and supervisors

  • Team leads and new managers

  • Department heads adopting AI

  • Working managers seeking growth or promotion

  • Managers and team leads looking for work

AI for Managers & Team Leads Overview

This hands-on course builds on the experience you already have, so it does not start you from zero. Across eight Skill Sprints, you use Claude and ChatGPT with sample scenarios to prepare decisions, communicate with your team, and plan responsible AI adoption. Every Skill Sprint ends with a small result you can use, explain, or build on.

  • Mostly hands on: you build each skill by doing it

  • A checking habit: you learn to catch AI errors before they matter

  • Guidance throughout: progress reviews show where you need support and what to do next

  • Two tracks: choose workplace growth or job search, with shared skills at the core

Delivered using OCA’s Skill Sprint™ Method with hands-on practice, real-world exercises, and instructor-led feedback.

Prerequisites

The following are needed before you start:

  • Working experience leading a team or project, however recent

  • A computer with internet access

  • Claude and ChatGPT accounts, with the plans confirmed before you start

  • Looking for Work track: your current resume and LinkedIn profile

All sample team scenarios and documents are included in your course material, so you never need to use confidential or employer data. This course is designed and delivered independently by Ohio Computer Academy and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how AI works, why it makes mistakes, and what is safe to share

  • Prepare decisions by comparing options and testing assumptions

  • Communicate clearly and prepare for difficult conversations

  • Identify AI opportunities and set responsible team guidelines

  • Working track: make updates, meeting preparation, and team documents faster and easier to document, and show the value of your work to your senior leader and stakeholders

  • Looking for Work track: present your experience on LinkedIn, on your resume, and in interviews, and run a daily routine of practice, connections, applications, and follow ups

Workplace Applications & Career Skills

The skills learned in this course apply directly to:

  • Decision preparation

  • Team communication

  • One on one preparation

  • Meeting follow up

  • Process improvement

  • AI adoption planning

  • Team Lead and Supervisor roles

  • People Manager roles

  • Operations and Department Manager roles

Curriculum

For people with experience in this field who want to return to it or move into a new role. Skill Sprints 2 to 4 are the same in both tracks, and each track runs as its own cohort.

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$850   
  • Instructor-Led: Live Online or In Person

  • 16 Total Hours

  • 8 Skill Sprints

  • Working Experience in the Field

  • Two Tracks to Choose From

  • Real-World Project

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Why This Course Is in Demand

Teams are already using AI, and managers need to guide that use while remaining accountable for decisions and people.

AI for Managers & Team Leads builds these skills through practical work, with a habit of checking AI output before it is used.