AI Is My Copilot – Business Training in Australia
This one-day artificial intelligence course is the perfect entry point to understanding the artificial intelligence tools currently available, and how to harness them to increase your personal productivity and impact at work.
You will learn about the various use cases of AI, from large language models like GPT to assist you with copywriting and brainstorming, to applications like Dall-e and Microsoft 365 copilot which create imagery based on your input. Have GPT work with you to create strategies, and policies, campaigns and job descriptions, ads and blog posts as well as evaluate annual reports and spreadsheets/financials.
Upcoming Dates
| Virtual (Zoom) | 2025: 20 Jan, 17 Jan, 31 March(full), 11 April, 12 May, 30 June | Australian Institute of Management |
| Brisbane | 2025 3 March(full), 2 June | Australian Institute of Management |
| SaturdAI | 2025: April | Laurel Papworth |
| Melbourne | 2025: 10th Feb, 5 May, 23 June | Australian Institute of Management |
| Sydney | 2025: 24th Feb (full), 14 April, 16 June | Australian Institute of Management |
| Adelaide | 2025: 7 April | Australian Institute of Management |
| Private Courses | Inhouse training, Conference workshops, private mentoring in AI | pa@laurelpapworth.com |
| Sydney (Clubs & Pubs) | 2025: May 28 Sydney (hospitality AI course with The Drop) | pa@laurelpapworth.com |
| Others | April 4 (Qld Gov), TBC |
Executive Summary of the AI Is My Copilot Course
Boost productivity and efficiency with Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI tools like ChatGPT. This course provides a hands-on approach to integrating AI into your daily workflow, automating tasks, and making smarter business decisions. (see learning outcomes below for more information).
- Use AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline work in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
- Create custom AI instructions to tailor Copilot and ChatGPT to your role and business needs and projects
- Master advanced prompting techniques better inputs for better outputs (AI-generated results)
- Using Reasoning Models to write reports, strategies and indepth papers with citations.
- Train AI on your documents to extract and utilise key business insights – working with finetuned AIs.
- Generate AI-powered images and videos with DALL-E and Sora and Microsoft Designer Copilot
- Leverage private AI models for secure and controlled enterprise use
- Developing an AI strategy for the organisation.
Who Is Laurel Papworth?
In 2023, Laurel Papworth is pleased to announce she has licensed her AI Is My CoPilot course at Australian Institute of Management (AIM) as she presents ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools at conference keynotes to large businesses, for the City of Sydney and other local gov entities as well as to small business as well presenting the workshop to Corporate and Government and NonProfits. AI Is My Copilot is a practical course on how to “centaur” or “copilot”, in other words, job share with AI, as a hands-on approach.
Her courses, since 2008, include artificial intelligence in algorithms and big data including F.A.I.R (Facebook AI), object recognition, behavioural AI and semantic AI such as Lexicon™, Deep Face™/Deep Text™ and Deep Mind™.
In 2005 Laurel used her background in virtual currencies to submit a patent on decentralised currency for Play to Earn fitness using IoT, 3 years before Bitcoin. She taught Augmented Reality community building to Facebook, Google and Microsoft in California in 2011. Named by Forbes™ Magazine as Top 50 Most Influential Social and Online Community Expert, Laurel mentors companies visualising, building and managing Web3 and Metaverse solutions Artificial Intelligence solutions, merging technology, philosophy and social psychology to present a holistic Metaverse strategy.
Laurel Papworth consults with Australian Parliament House, Sony, banks, Channel Ten and non profits, she has 22,000 students studying her online courses and was Head of Community (and then Social) for virtual worlds like Sony games and Iron Will games since 2001 and taught “How to Build Massive Engaged Communities” in games and on web2 social media platforms at the University of Sydney from 2005.
More on Laurel on her podcast Alchemy of Innovation, YouTube, LinkedIn and her website laurelpapworth.com.
…and she regularly plays World of Warcraft, Roblox and other online MMORPG games with her avatar, SilkCharm.
HigherEd BIO Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Big Data – Australia and overseas:
Adult Education Trainer (Professional Development) in Social Media and other courses in the University of Sydney CCE from 2005 until 2017 (12 years continuous) Associate Lecturer in Bachelor of Design in the University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture in 2016 Lecturer in Creative Industries in the University of Western Sydney from 2012 Lecturer Post Graduate Communications in the University of Technology Sydney circa 2011 – 2014 Lecturer in Masters of Convergent Media course in the University of Western Sydney from 2008 -2010 Tutor in Computing in the University of Adelaide from 1989 – 1992 Lecturer AFTRS Lecturer MetroScreen SchoolGuest lecturer Universities in Singapore, Portugal, Effat/Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), community colleges and TAFE. Laurel also has a Cert IV in Training and Assessment.
PRIVATE TRAINING ON CHATGPT and AI for your Organisation: please contact me on 0432694992 or email pa@laurelpapworth.com for information on an inhouse/conference workshop or facilitated course.
PUBLIC TRAINING on CHATGPT and AI is primarily run through Australian Institute of Management (see below)
ChatGPT: AI Is My CoPilot course
My course is now licensed to Australian Institute of Management (delivered by me, Laurel Papworth).
Register your interest today (on the AIM website) for course dates.
Key Learning Outcomes Of ChatGPT and AI course:
Upon successful completion of this course you will:
- Increase Efficiency with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Gain hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot—a powerful productivity tool that works seamlessly within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Learn how to automate tasks, streamline workflows, and save time across your daily activities. - Understand Private AI Models
- Explore the benefits of private AI models for your organisation. Learn how to maintain data privacy and control while leveraging advanced AI capabilities tailored to your specific requirements.
Typical Curriculum for 1 Day Artificial Intelligence Workshop
Understanding the technology
- We start the day by exploring essential AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. You’ll log in and learn how to use prompts, modifiers, and other AI clarifiers to get the results you want. Whether you want to create art, write a report, or generate code for a website, you’ll understand how AI learns from your inputs to refine its outputs, getting closer to your desired outcome. While this course is for non-technical people you will gain a solid foundation in the techstack required to build out an AI that can be trained on your business documents.
Structured Prompting – Better Input = Better Output!
- There are many ways to prompt using NLP (natural language processing) an LLM (large language model like ChatGPT). By understanding when and how to use the various types of prompts you’ll progress from asking a simple question to structuring sophisticated threads to get the output you want!
Exploring AI Tools for Business including Microsoft 365 Copilot
- You will receive a list of over 40 AI tools applicable to various business needs. While we won’t have time to cover all of them in class, we will prioritize a few key tools for in-depth exploration. From search to images to creating Powerpoint there are many options with integrating AI into your business.
- Custom GPTs allow various departments to create an AI that uses ChatGPT underneath but has their own documents. HR can create one, as can Customer Service as can Marketing. Let’s explore! Evaluate similar solutions for Microsoft 365 Copilot integrations.
Private LLMs and Risk and Regulation
- We will discuss privacy, plagiarism, and other ethical issues related to AI. This session includes an open forum to add and discuss additional concerns, exploring what can and cannot be controlled. Learn tips for engaging with government and regulatory bodies, and understand how to shape the future of AI collaboratively.
The Future of AI
- If relevant we explore how AI will impact jobs in your sector, tasks in your office, and the broader future of your industry. Building on our group discussion, you’ll use AI tools to generate a video, email, report, or image, applying the strategies and tactics learned during the course. This hands-on session helps you envision and prepare for the AI-driven future.
Alternative: Private one-on-one Single day in the Blue Mountains
for 1 to 3 people in your team
NOTE: if you are booking a private consulting day with me in the Blue Mountains during April 2023, please use THIS link after discussion with me. +61432684992. Limited number of days available!
Central Finance Office needs a proposal and/or quote? If you have any questions, want to run this privately for a conference or offsite, need a specialist Proposal etc, please email us with question, dates and detailed request. A GST Invoice/Receipt is issued if booked online, but sometimes Head Office needs more. Alternative call +61432684992
Not ready to join a course – watch my free videos!
Create, Edit and Transform documents with ChatGPT- tips – 0024
Step by step ChatGPT to get over the blank page, to edit a final document and to transform into other documents simply and easily.
Chain of Density Prompt with ChatGPT
Chain of Density is a structured technique that transforms a lengthy transcript into a series of progressively denser summaries
Powerpoint presentation with ChatGPT/CoPilot
Step by Step how to create powerpoint presentation slides with artificial intelligence (ChatGPT/CoPilot). Australia.
How To get CoPilot (single licence) for small business – Microsoft 365 – ChatGPT
Microsoft copilot for single user or small business. Step by step to sign up as an individual to ChatGPT CoPilot.
ChatGPT and Hashtags
Step by Step how to use ChatGPT to find and use hashtags on Instagram.
Set up Custom ChatGPT for Local Government – Australia – tutorial
how councils and local government can step by step setup a custom GPT to train the AI on their policies and frameworks.
About Laurel Papworth
Artificial Intelligence
Laurel has taught AI, algorithms and big data at University of Sydney, UWS, UTS, UoA, AFTRs, and Universities in Singapore, Portugal and Saudi Arabia and currently teaches AI at Australian Institute of Management.
Educator
CERT IV Training and Assessment certified trainer (Diplomas and Certificates etc) Adult Education. Taught social media marketing at Uni of Sydney for 12 years. More Info
Clients
Laurel has consulted, mentored, spoken at conferences, run workshops and project managed clients including: Senators and Ministers (over 20 of them), Australia Parliament House, Westpac bank, Prime Minister of Malaysia, Royal House of Saud, multiple universities globally, NBC Universal Studios, Channel Ten Big Brother community, Ministry of Defence Singapore and more. Client List
Personally
Laurel has 22,000 online students. Laurel Papworth personally connects to 11 million followers online and has taught around 100,000 people in the last 10 years. Named by Forbes™ Magazine in the Top 50 Marketing Influencers globally, named Head of Industry, Social Media (Marketing Magazine™) and in the Power150 Media & Marketing bloggers (AdAge™) Testimonials
Artificial Intelligence Course Outline:
Looking for a 1 Day Foundation or 2 Day Intensive workshop on the new artificial intelligence tools made available to business and individuals? Want information tools like Midjourney, Dall-e, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, – when to use them and how artificial intelligence can save you time and resources? Want a comprehensive list of the prompts and modifiers to use those tools to their optimum – and get the results you want?? Plus there are a hundred new custom GPTs (apps or plugins) and AI Addons being released a week – which ones are best for your organisation or business? This course is also aimed at you if you want to detect if AI has been used in a business report or student essay – there are AI detectors available! We cover the Future of AI in various industries from content creation to marking exams to predicting behaviours. Also how will artificial intelligence underpin the Metaverse/Web3 – From ChatGPT, Dall-e from OpenAI to MidJourney and beyond. This is an intensive course.