Your team has probably had a go with AI already. The hard part is turning that into better everyday work, safely, and making it stick. That's what I help owners, directors and team leaders do: hands-on training on your team's own tasks, sensible safeguards, and habits that last after the training day. It works for any UK business, and particularly for defence, aviation and regulated teams, where getting it wrong costs more.
30 minutes. You'll leave knowing the first AI task worth tackling with your team, whether we work together or not. No charge, no pressure.
You explained AI in a clear, approachable way… which made the session both interesting and reassuring for those of us new and/or sceptical to the subject.
Milly Luxford, EA to the CEO, Royal Naval Association
Teams trained at Dorset Council, BCP Council, CHIRP, ASG, cyberISMS, tlmNEXUS, Defence BattleLab, the Royal Naval Association and dozens of SMEs and charities.
Built by the team on their own work: a six-step proposal workflow with checks built in, and a policy agent that reviews by exception.
Read the case study ↓It was an excellent day and a very worthwhile investment for us.
Ian Punton CEng MRAeS FCMI, Director, ASG Ltd
An AI assistant built around the SHIELD human factors taxonomy, and the team trained to use it. It also questioned codes they'd been using out of habit.
Read the full story →Paul has made a real difference to CHIRP's global reporting programme. It worked from day one, giving us faster, more complete and more consistent insights into complex data sets.
Adam Parnell, Director Maritime, CHIRP
Two sessions built around their own business, so everyone starts from the same on-brand base. The team now use it on everyday work.
Read the full story →Loved the course, have used it so much already in the last week for things I would not have previously thought about using it for.
Lisa O'Sullivan, Philippa Sole Ltd
Nobody's doing anything wrong. It just hasn't turned into better everyday work yet. These are the problems I hear about most from owners, directors and team leaders, and what training can realistically change.
NowYou've paid for AI tools, but the value is patchy. A few people use them well. Most hardly touch them.
With trainingYour whole team working on real tasks from their own jobs, with the tools you already pay for, and leaving with something they'll use on Monday.
NowConfidence is low. People use AI like a search box, or keep well away in case they get it wrong.
With trainingPeople who can brief AI properly, check what comes back and know when to overrule it. Mixed confidence is normal, and nobody gets left behind.
NowYou're uneasy about accuracy, sensitive information and accountability. Who checks it? What should never go in? Who signs it off?
With trainingGround rules your team has agreed: what never goes into an AI tool, what gets checked before anything goes out, and a named person who owns it.
NowThe enthusiasm fades. Everyone's keen after the training. A month later, the old habits are back.
With trainingFollow-through to match: resources to come back to, help applying it to real work, and a check on what's stuck and what hasn't.
NowYou need results, not another project. Nobody has spare time to run an AI initiative.
With trainingStarting points that slot into the work you already do, with the benefit measured against a baseline if you want the evidence.
That's what Practical AI for Your Team is for: hands-on training, sensible safeguards and help to make it last. See the three levels ↓
It's one hands-on programme, built around your team's own work, at three levels. Every level starts with the same hands-on training day. What changes is how much support your team receives to apply the learning, make it stick and demonstrate the results. I deliver every level personally.
Build confidence and capability.
Practical training on your team's work.
Suits: teams starting out, or leaders who want to see how it lands first.
Put learning into practice.
Training, reusable resources and follow-up to help people apply what they've learned.
Suits: teams who need the training to turn into everyday habit.
Everything in Essentials, plus:
Embed change and demonstrate results.
Training, application support, management involvement and evidence of improvement.
Suits: leaders who want measurable change, and regulated teams who need it documented.
Everything in Advantage, plus:
Tell me within 30 days of the training day and I'll refund the training element. For Essentials, that means the whole fee. For Advantage and Flagship, it's the training element, shown separately in your quotation; additional support already provided isn't refunded. Your team needs to have taken part, that's all. No hassle.
Not sure which level? That's what the AI Fit Conversation is for. We'll work it out together, and if there's a sensible next step, I'll follow up with a short written outline.
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People I train are already good at their jobs but worried AI will make them look slow. So that's where we start: plain English, your own work, nobody put on the spot, and two or three things you'll use on Monday. Especially if you've been handed Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT and told to get on with it.
“You're going to be okay. You're not going to be exposed. You're not going to be made to look stupid or silly. We will stop and answer all your questions.”
The clever stuff can wait until everyone's relaxed.
It was an excellent day and a very worthwhile investment for us.
It is still early days, but we are already seeing quicker and better-quality outputs, improved consistency and useful challenge. Perhaps the most noticeable difference is in the conversation across the team: people are regularly talking about how they are approaching tasks and sharing snippets and ideas from the day. That feels like a useful change in working practice rather than simply greater use of another tool.
Ian Punton CEng MRAeS FCMI, Director, ASG Ltd
Thank you again for your time. It's been hugely beneficial to my AI use going forward.
Gary Moore, cyberISMS
It's the method every session teaches, practised on your team's own tasks. Brief AI properly, delegate the heavy lifting, then audit what comes back before it goes out under your name.
We remember it as 10-80-10: about 10% of the effort on the brief, 80% the AI doing the work, and 10% you checking it. Teams tell us it changes how they use AI.
The numbers are a memory aid, not a rule. How much checking a task needs depends on what it is and what's riding on it. A quick social post might need a read-through. A bid, a safety report or anything with client data needs far more than 10%. What doesn't change: AI helps with the work, and people stay responsible for it.
Tell the AI what you want, who it's for, and what good looks like. Thirty seconds of briefing is the difference between a generic, slightly-wrong answer and a usable one.
The draft, the analysis, the first version. This is where AI earns its keep, and where your time comes back.
AI will sound completely confident about something completely wrong. The last step is reading it, fixing it and putting your name to it. Skip this and you're not saving time, you're shipping mistakes faster.
Safe use runs through every session: what goes into an AI tool, what gets checked before anything goes out, and who owns it. The training day, safe use and a prompt you can try today →
There's no charge and no pressure, just a useful conversation about your team and AI. Pick a time that suits you and it goes straight into my calendar.
If we're not the right fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
Leading a team in the UK? Mention it on the call and I'll post you a signed copy of my book, AI Without Betting the Business. Up to 10 a month.
Do it. It will save you time and give you confidence in using AI to benefit massively.
Lisa O'Sullivan, Philippa Sole Ltd
I would recommend Bravo Zulu AI training to any business or charity.
Nicholas Harper, Armed Forces Programme Co-ordinator, Dorset Council
Practical AI team training starts at £396 per delegate, per day. That's the Practical AI Workshop: Essentials, full day, for teams of 10–16 people. Advantage, Flagship and half-day fees are quoted separately, and your total is confirmed in a written quotation before you book. There's no VAT to add. Travel for in-person sessions is charged separately, and the Fit Review is a fixed fee, agreed before we start. All three levels of Practical AI for Your Team come with the 30-day guarantee: if your team took part and you tell me within 30 days of the training day that it didn't give clear, practical value, I'll refund the training element. For Essentials, that's the whole fee. For Advantage and Flagship, it's the training element shown separately in your quotation; additional support already provided isn't refunded.
The minimum booking is 10 places. If your team is smaller, we'll talk through the options in your AI Fit Conversation. With more than 16 people, we run a second session, so everyone gets proper hands-on time.
The training day is the same at every level. Essentials builds confidence and capability: practical training on your team's work. Advantage puts learning into practice: reusable resources and follow-up to help people apply what they've learned. Flagship embeds change and demonstrates results: application support, your managers involved, and evidence of improvement. If you're not sure which fits, we'll work it out on the call.
No, and this is a promise we take seriously. Sessions are plain English, hands-on and built around your real work. Nobody gets exposed, nobody gets made to look silly, and every question gets answered. Mixed confidence levels, from keen early adopters to complete sceptics, are normal in every room we train.
Practical AI for Your Team trains your people. A Fit Review looks at your business first: where AI would genuinely help, where it wouldn't, and what's safe. If you already know your team needs the skills, start with the training. If you're not sure where AI fits, or whether it does, start with the Fit Review. We'll work out which in your AI Fit Conversation. (That's the free 30-minute call; the Fit Review is the in-depth, paid piece of work.)
Yes. If your team has already had AI training, from me or from someone else, we can talk about the follow-through on its own: clinics, a guided build and a review, without repeating the training day. We'll agree what fits on the call.
That depends on what goes in and which tools you use, so that's where we start. On day one we agree what's fair game for AI and what never is, which tools are approved, and how to handle client or sensitive material. I won't tell you a tool is secure without seeing your setup. If you need a firm answer, we'll work it through with your IT or data protection lead.
Usually the one you already pay for. If you're on Microsoft 365, that's often Copilot. We work across ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini, compare them honestly, and help you decide whether one platform is enough. The judgement we teach works in all of them.
Another question? Ask me on the call. There's more on measuring value, time and the book on How I work.
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