teamshaper’s AI adoption pathway
Bespoke AI adoption training programme for public sector teams
A bespoke pathway that gives your whole workforce a shared language, shared standards and the right guardrails for using AI, with extra support for those who need it. Five modules, built around your own work and your organisation’s tone guide, ethics, people plan and strategy, delivered by subject-matter experts.
AI adoption works differently from digital transformation. AI removes the need for a middleman, so change is now driven by individual practitioners and teams alongside your central transformation teams. That opens up enormous potential, and it also creates two main risks: practitioners building ahead without shared standards or guardrails, and a two-tier workforce where some people use AI and others take far longer to do the same tasks.
This pathway addresses both. Practitioners move ahead confidently, within the standards your organisation has set and with the guardrails in place, while everyone else is brought onto the same footing. There’s some technical training involved, but the pathway takes an organisational development view of the change, identifying and removing barriers at team, organisation and system level as well as building individual skills.
Every workshop uses materials, workflows and examples from people’s own work, so the learning happens in the room. People leave with practices ready to use the next morning, with no translating required.
objectives
by the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
Get consistently useful results from Copilot on their own everyday work
Judge what to delegate to Copilot, how much to check its output and what must remain theirs
Use AI in line with the organisation’s standards, ethics and tone guide, using a shared language across teams
Share what works, so the ingenuity of those who run ahead benefits everyone
Turn good ideas into safe, compliant tools that serve the wider organisation, where relevant to their role
at a glance
modules
5 - 2 foundation and 3 specialist
cohort size
maximum 20
logistics
delivered face to face or virtually
embedding mechanism
monthly ‘office hours’ session, open drop-in
team
1 lead trainer, 1 programme coordinator, several subject-matter experts delivering the modules
the modules
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Prompt Like a Pro (Foundation, Half Day)
The command: getting good results from Copilot through structured prompting, iteration and live examples from your own work.
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Delegating to Copilot (Foundation, Half Day)
The judgement behind the command: what to hand to Copilot, how much to check what comes back and what must remain yours.
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Writing with Copilot (Specialist, Full Day)
For people who write a lot: prompting and judgement applied to writing, in your organisation’s own voice and tone.
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Copilot Agents (Specialist, Full Day)
For the trailblazers, and those who want to be one: turning great ideas into organisational tools that benefit more than just them, built safely and within organisational guidelines.
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Leading AI Transformation (Specialist, Full Day)
For leaders and emerging leaders: enabling and supporting others through AI adoption while managing risk well.
our approach
The two foundation modules are the core of the pathway. One deals with the command, the other with the judgement behind it, and together they create consistent standards, a shared language and a common footing across the workforce. By default everyone takes them, though your organisation can set its own threshold or enrolment criteria for who attends. Both are personalised, so the standards come alive through live, relevant examples from people’s own work.
The specialist modules are for those who want to deepen their skills: people who write a lot, trailblazers who want to turn their ideas into tools for the wider organisation, and leaders who enable others while managing risk well. Your organisation puts forward the people who need them.
Monthly support drop-ins run alongside the modules, so anyone who needs extra help gets it, whatever their starting point.
Delivery typically starts with frequent runs of the two foundation modules, bringing the wider workforce up to a shared standard, then shifts to a mix of specialist modules alongside ongoing foundation runs for new starters.
timeline
bespoke by design
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content
Built from your own AI policy, tone guide, ethics, people plan and strategy, using your own tasks and examples. -
programme plan
Modules can be added or removed based on what your organisation needs. -
scheduling & format
Sessions run as often as needed, face to face by default, with virtual options available. -
diagnostics
Discovery, pre and post surveys by default, plus Copilot usage data or any tool you already use. -
individual coaching
Available alongside the pathway for staff who need extra support. -
always current
AI moves fast, so we keep every workshop current, and we keep adapting the content as your organisation updates its own standards and guidance.
impact
how we measure success
We survey participants when they start the pathway, and again on completion, tracked against the same measures, so you can show what changed and evidence it directly. Combined with the real situations raised in the monthly support drop-ins, this gives you both the metric and the lived example behind it: what changed, and what it looked like in practice.
We’re also happy to work with metrics your organisation already tracks, such as Copilot usage and adoption data, to benchmark the pathway against them.
outcomes
For individuals: the skills to get good results from AI on their own work, the judgement to know what to delegate, what to check and what must remain theirs, and the confidence of working to a clear organisational standard, with support available at whatever level they start from.
For the organisation: one shared language and set of standards for AI use, applied consistently across the workforce, practitioners free to move ahead within clear guardrails, and the ingenuity of your trailblazers turned into tools that benefit everyone, with no two-tier workforce and a living record of how adoption performs.