AI for Business/Office Productivity
Diploma
Program Overview:
For non-technical individuals, a 3 month AI diploma should focus on practical understanding, prompt engineering, and the effective use of modern AI tools instead of coding. The aim is to empower professionals to automate tasks, improve decision making, and strengthen productivity in any workplace. Every workplace problem has AI solution, and this course is designed to provide those solutions to professionals who want to work smarter, deliver better results, and move toward higher performance roles. It equips participants with modern AI skills that improve productivity, accuracy, and decision-making across any department.
Whether in business, administration, education, or operational roles, this program equips employees to work smarter, deliver higher quality output, and stand out as top performers. By grasping modern AI tools, professionals enhance their growth potential, strengthen leadership readiness, and position themselves for future advancement toward senior or C level roles.
Target Audience:
Office professionals, managers, entrepreneurs, administrative staff, educators, HR personnel, and non-technical students.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will learn how to use AI to speed up routine tasks like writing emails, reports, summaries, and meeting minutes.
- Participants will able to produce polished reports, proposals, pitch decks, and visuals using AI-powered writing and design tools.
- Participants will discover how to craft strong prompts that improve accuracy, creativity, and efficiency across multiple work scenarios.
- Participants will understand how to clean data, generate formulas, analyze trends, and produce insights using natural language AI tools.
- Participants will be able to automate repetitive workflows without coding.
- Participants will apply AI to generate market analysis, competitor insights, customer personas, and strategic planning documents.
- Participants will explore real AI use cases tailored for marketing, management, healthcare, education, sales, and technical environments.
- Participants will understand responsible AI use, privacy considerations, and best practices for validating AI-generated content.
Course Outline
- Welcome, course objectives, introductions, and participant expectations.
- What is AI and why it matters for productivity
- Types of AI tools
- Understanding Generative AI
- AI for knowledge workers, doctors, professors, businesses
- Real office scenarios solved with AI
- Ethical use and policy considerations
- Hands-on: Creating your first AI assistant prompt
- Prompt Engineering for Better Conversations with AI
- Understand Large Language Model (LLM) for Generative AI
- Clear, structured, role-based prompts/ Types of Prompt
- Templates for marketing, office work, education, healthcare
- Crafting effective prompts for handling corporate tasks
- Hands-on: Build personalized prompt libraries for office setting
- Activity: Design super prompt for productivity and workflow optimization.
- Learn how to tailor ChatGPT for smarter and more efficient office use
- AI for writing reports, summaries, memos
- Email drafting and automation
- Creating meeting minutes
- Formatting documents
- Data table creation
- Hands-on: Create a complete office report with AI
- Generate professional presentations
- Design posters, brochures, banners with AI image tools
- Create business proposals and pitch decks
- Rewrite content for tone, clarity, professionalism
- Hands-on: Presentation creation workshop
- AI for spreadsheets
- Cleaning data, formulas, pivot table help
- Natural language data querying
- Predictive insights using AI assistants
- Hands-on: Upload Excel sheet and automate tasks
- Introduction to Zapier, Make, Power Automate
- Connect emails, forms, spreadsheets, CRM
- Everyday automations: reminders, reporting, follow ups
- Building workflows for marketing, HR, healthcare
- Hands-on: Build first automation
- AI for SWOT, PEST, market analysis
- Consumer persona generation
- Forecasting and business simulation
- AI for policy and governance
- Hands-on: Generate a business plan
- Generative AI in Modern Marketing
- AI for Marketing Strategy
- AI Tools for Content Creation
- AI for Visual Marketing
- AI Automation for Marketing
- Hands-On Activities:
- Create a complete AI-generated marketing campaign.
- Produce social media content pack for a brand.
- Generate product visuals using AI image tools.
- Use AI tools to generate videos, animations, and product clips.
- Script-to-Video AI Tools
- AI for image and video add development
- AI for Voiceover and Audio Enhancement
- AI Visual Enhancement Tools
- Hands-On Activities: Create a short AI-generated promotional video
- Understanding AI-Powered Technical Project Generation
- Learn AI Tools for One-Click Project Generation
- AI for Technical Documentation and Task Breakdown
- AI for Data Analysis and Business Intelligence (BI)
- Creating client deliverables using AI tools.
- Hands-On Activities: Create replica for popular software with AI tool
- Use AI to analyze a dataset and create BI-style insights.
- Implement data science techniques using AI tools
- Review and reinforce all major concepts learned throughout the course.
- A guided recap of the full program.
- Final Quiz and Knowledge Check
- Closing Ceremony
- Certificate distribution
- Appreciation remarks for participants
- Group photos
- Refreshments and networking session
Program Fees:
PKR 40,000
(Exclusive of Tax)
Application Deadline:
March 27, 2026
Classes from:
March 28, 2026
Duration:
08 weeks
10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Sessions:
1 session per week (3 hours per session)
Prerequisites:
Basic computer literacy, no programming experience required.
Venue
IT Lab-410, CCSIS, IoBM
Registration
Program Facilitator
Dr. Kashif Laeeq
Dr. Kashif Laeeq, PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, is a distinguished trainer, university professor, entrepreneur, and IT consultant. He is widely recognized for his comprehensive expertise and impactful contributions across both academia and industry. He has authored 24+ research publications, co-authored a book on cyber-physical systems, and successfully completed over 100 commercial research projects. His training specializations include Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). A recognized member of ACM, IEEE, IJSER, and IACSIT, Dr. Laeeq is widely respected for his ability to simplify complex concepts, making him an effective mentor and industry-focused trainer.