AI Dexterity Sprint
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Overview
AI has arrived in your organisation and made its presence felt at every level.
Now you need to make it work—for you, your team, and across your business.
But a ‘just add AI’ approach isn’t fit for purpose and isn’t a strategy. The solution instead lies in new knowledge, thoughtful implementation, and informed experimentation.
All of which the AI dexterity sprint covers.
What you'll learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain how Generative AI systems function and evaluate their capabilities and limitations for professional applications.
- Customise Generative AI tools and features—across Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude—to create high quality and effective outputs in support of diverse workplace tasks.
- Evaluate how AI adoption affects productivity, workflows, and expertise development.
- Understand the data security, reliability, and integrity considerations around AI adoption.
Sydney Executive Plus
Aims
The AI dexterity sprint equips you with the practical knowledge to use, customise, critically evaluate, and govern AI tools at work. Across three core modules, you’ll learn about Generative AI systems, how to get high quality and effective outputs from them, and key considerations around AI adoption.
You’ll leave with a clear framework for Generative AI use linked to daily workflows, the ability to distinguish productive AI applications from problematic ones, and the confidence to lead AI adoption within teams.
The sprint includes an applied project where you’ll analyse AI applications within your own organisation and personal workflow.
Content
- Intro to Generative AI - This module strips away the jargon to show how generative AI learns patterns from data, generates content, and becomes the conversational tool you use every day.
- Working with tools and models - This module shows you how to customise preferences, build memory, create project workspaces, and enable external tools like web search.
- Striking a safe and productive balance - This module addresses the leadership dimensions of AI adoption: managing the tension between efficiency and expertise, establishing guardrails around data security, reliability, and integrity, and surfacing underground AI use.
Senior executives, leaders, and managers seeking to build practical AI capability. Professionals working in organisations that are evaluating, developing, or expanding their use of Generative AI. The sprint is ideal for those responsible for team productivity, knowledge work, or organisational strategy who want to move beyond ad hoc experimentation toward deliberate AI integration.
This course will be delivered online via self-paced modules and livestreams over one week.
There are no prerequisite requirements to take this course.
All course materials are provided electronically. Before the course begins, you will receive an email from Sydney Executive Plus with all the instructions you need to access the course materials and communications platforms.
We’ve designed the final project to draw on the work you complete in your workbook and throughout the modules and to be completed within a week of finishing the sprint. We want you to be able to complete this work individually, and without interrupting your working week.
All courses must be paid in advance of commencing your course. We accept the following payment methods:
- Mastercard
- Visa
- American Express (only available for enrolments made through the Sydney Short Courses website)
- Electronic Funds Transfer (for company invoices only)
- Journal Transfer (for University of Sydney Staff only)
Please see our Payment Options for further information.
I have enrolled in a Sydney Executive Plus course, what happens now?
Once your enrolment has been processed, you will receive the following emails:
- Enrolment confirmation: you will receive this immediately after your enrolment has been processed.
- Tax invoice: the payer of your enrolment will receive this immediately after your enrolment has been processed.
- Course reminders: you will receive emails from Sydney Executive Plus in the lead up to the course starting. These include information about the course and the schedule for online live sessions (but don't worry, there's no pre-reading).
- Course materials: if you are enrolled in a sprint, you will get access to the online sprint hub the Monday before the sprint begins. If you are enrolled in a masterclass, all materials will be provided to you in the session.
- Live session links: you will receive reminder emails the day before and the day of each live session containing the meeting link and meeting ID. If you are enrolled in a sprint, these links are also included in the sprint calendar.
If you haven’t received any emails from Sydney Executive Plus, please check your junk/spam folder and add executive.plus@sydney.edu.au to your safe senders list.
Contact us if you would like to discuss how Sydney Short Courses can support your organisational training needs through this course. Either as a group booking, whole course block booking, or customised delivery to meet your business requirements.
Upcoming classes
Online: self-paced plus live sessions
| When | Time | Where | Session Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 10 Apr 2026 | 12pm - 2:30pm (UTC+10:00) | Live - Online - Online: self-paced plus live sessions | |
| Fri 17 Apr 2026 | 12pm - 1pm (UTC+10:00) | Live - Online - Online: self-paced plus live sessions |