A Practical Guide to Using AI for Work

Name: A Practical Guide to Using AI for Work
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Learn practical strategies to integrate AI into your daily routine to work faster, smarter, and more creatively.

Created byGoogle

Last updated 3/2026

English

What you'll learn

Discover how to apply AI to existing professional tasks to overcome business challenges.
Learn to use AI for repetitive administrative work and tasks you've been putting off to save valuable time.
Apply AI tools to help brainstorm solutions and generate fresh ideas when you feel stuck on a project.
Watch practical tool demonstrations to learn how to get more done, faster.

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 35m total length

Find Your AI Sweet Spot3:20
Activity: Reflect on some current challenges
Demystify AI: What's going on behind the scenes3:48
Activity: Write an effective prompt for Gemini
Communicate effectively with AI7:24
Unlock better outputs with iteration3:44
Activity: Improve your prompts with iteration
Use Gemini as your creative and thought partner4:33
Activity: Use Gemini as your thought partner
Talk it out with Gemini Live4:04
Activity: Talk it out with Gemini Live
Make the most of AI in the apps you're already using2:48
Activity: Make the most of Gemini in Google Workspace
Track down answers to your questions in seconds4:16
Summarize your documents, articles, and videos in seconds using NotebookLM to track down answers fast. Create a personal notebook, upload sources, and generate focused insights from your data.
Start a new AI habit1:31

Requirements

None.

Description

This course is part of Google’s Make AI Work for You program and serves as a roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into your daily work. Whether you are a professional eager to grow, or a small business owner juggling multiple roles, this course teaches you how to move from feeling stuck to working smarter. You will learn from Google experts and real business owners how to examine your current tasks and identify ways AI can save you time every day.

You will begin by learning how to prompt AI to get to the outcomes that you’re looking for. You will practice Chain-of-Thought prompting, breaking complex tasks into smaller, manageable steps.

We’ll discuss how to use AI as your creative thought partner, and you’ll discover how to use Gemini Live to talk through ideas in real-time. You’ll also be introduced to NotebookLM, a collaborative tool that helps to gain a deeper understanding of complex documents, using your own materials to inform the process. Additionally, you will see how AI is integrated directly into Google Workspace, allowing you to summarize lengthy email threads in Gmail or generate data insights in Sheets without switching apps. By the end of this course, you will have a personalized action plan and a prompt library that you can reuse to simplify your daily business tasks.

Who this course is for:

This course is for small business owners who feel like they have too many things to manage: things that take too long, cost way too much, and require them to wear all the hats. Things that have nothing to do with why they started their businesses in the first place.