AI at Work: ChatGPT & AI Tools for Professionals
Do a week's work in a day — in 4 weeks
What you'll do
The one skill that changed how reports, proposals and analysis get done — taught live on Zoom, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, by a practitioner.
You leave with a portfolio of three real documents, a personal AI workflow you use daily, and a quality checklist your employer will thank you for.
- Category
- AI & Digital Productivity
- Format
- Live online on Zoom · Tue & Thu 7–9 pm EAT · 4 weeks · 8 live sessions (16 hours) · all sessions recorded
- Who it is for
- NGO staff, project officers, analysts, administrators and any office professional who writes, reports or handles data.
- Before you start
- None. A laptop (or a smartphone for the first sessions) and a free ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account.
- Taught by
- Eng. Abdirizak (Abyad) — MBA, Master's in IT, CCNA, CCNP, Security+, CySA+, PMP (handed to a contract instructor from May 2027)
- Certificate
- SGI Africa certificate of completion, verifiable at sgiafrica.org/verify
You leave with
- Three finished work documents
- A personal AI workflow you use daily
- Clear rules on what not to share with AI tools
- SGI Africa certificate of completion
Session by session
| # | Session | You produce |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Prompting that produces work-grade output Role, context, format, constraints — the four parts of a prompt that produces something you can send. | A personal prompt library |
| 1.2 | Reports and documents Drafting, restructuring and editing into the house voice. | One real report rewritten |
| 2.1 | Donor and funding writing Proposals, concept notes and log frames in plain language. | One concept note drafted |
| 2.2 | Data and spreadsheets Formulas, cleaning, summarising, reading a dataset. | One messy sheet cleaned |
| 3.1 | Meetings, email and translation Summaries, minutes, English/Swahili. | A working inbox system |
| 3.2 | Accuracy and integrity Fact-checking, what AI gets wrong, what never to paste into it. | A quality checklist |
| 4.1 | Build your own workflow Templates, reusable prompts, team handover. | A personal workflow document |
| 4.2 | Presentations and certificate Present your portfolio to the cohort. | Portfolio of three documents |
- All live sessions
- Session recordings
- Workbook and materials
- SGI Africa certificate of completion
- Everything in Essential
- Graded assignments
- Capstone review
- Mentor WhatsApp group
- LinkedIn badge
Course fees are in KSh and inclusive of all taxes. Indicative USD equivalents use 1 USD = KES 129. Pay in full at registration and get lifetime access to all session recordings.
The same course costs more once there is proof. Founding is one cohort, ever. Anyone who paid a lower price never pays more later.
Thursday 12 November, 7:00–8:30 pm EAT on Zoom
75 minutes of real teaching from the course instructor, then 15 minutes on how the cohort works. Register and we'll send the link and the replay.
Data at Work Pathway
- AI at Work: ChatGPT & AI Tools for Professionals · 4 wks
- Data Analytics Masterclass: Excel, Power BI & AI · 6 wks
- Attend at least 6 of 8 sessions — a recording plus a catch-up task counts.
- Submit at least 3 of 4 assignments.
- Complete and present the final project.
- Fees paid in full. Certificates carry a unique code verifiable at sgiafrica.org/verify.
Payment
Secure your seat with a 50% deposit. The balance is due halfway through the course — the exact week is on every course page (week 2 of a 4-week course, week 3 of a 6-week course, week 5 of CCNA and Project Management). Your seat, your live sessions, your assignment feedback and your cohort group are yours from the day you pay the deposit.
Your certificate, transcript and LinkedIn badge are issued once your fees are paid in full. If you need more time, that's fine — tell us. Your documents are held, not cancelled, and we release them the day the balance clears.
Paying in full at registration? You also receive lifetime access to all session recordings.
Our promise
Attend at least 75% of the live sessions (a recording plus a catch-up task counts), submit at least 75% of the assignments and complete the final project. If you finish and your portfolio isn't complete, you join the next cohort free.
Refunds and transfers
Full refund up to 7 days before the start date, no questions asked. After Session 1, no refund — but you may transfer your seat once to any future cohort, or to a colleague, at no charge.
If we postpone a cohort because it did not reach its minimum, you choose: a full refund within 5 working days, or a transfer to the next cohort with a free upgrade to the Professional tier.
Organisation seats are invoiced and refundable in full up to 7 days before the start date; unused seats transfer to your next intake.
Founding cohort
The founding price is for the founding cohort only — the first-ever run of each course, capped at 20 seats. In return, founding students give a written testimonial and take part in a short case study, and keep lifetime access to every future run of that course.
Prices rise with cohort 2 and again from cohort 4. Anyone who paid a lower price never pays more.