AI Coaching · Track 01 of 3

AI as a Tool

Build basic, working fluency with AI: safe use, checkable prompts, verified sources, and helpers you actually reuse.

What this track builds

Working fluency, not tool-collecting.

This track builds basic fluency in using AI for real work — safely, verifiably, and without producing shallow output. By the end, a learner chooses the right tool and method for the task in front of them, produces a draft that can actually be used, checks its facts, and delivers the work with evidence attached: what went in, what was assumed, how it was checked, and who owns it.

The approach P1 uses throughout: from a one-off instruction → to a task with context and criteria → to sourced evidence → to a verified, usable result.

Who it's for, and how it runs

The same shape as every P1 track.

Learners & format

  • P1 Thailand staff across operations, finance, HR, and support functions
  • 12 weeks · 90 minutes a week · groups of 6–20
  • Short demo → simulated-scenario practice → applied to approved real work → reflection and refinement

The safety line

  • No customer, personal, financial, or internal-document data goes into a tool the company has not approved
  • Practice uses training or anonymised data only
  • The person using AI always owns the decision and the outcome

Every session follows the same arc: connect to real work → teach the concept → demonstrate it with and without context/evidence → practise it → apply it to one real, approved task → reflect and set the risk-checked homework.

The 12 sessions

From a first safe task to a real workflow.

01

Starting responsibly

Separate what AI can help with, what needs a human, and what data must never be entered — without giving up ownership of the decision.

02

Prompts that actually work

Write prompts with a goal, context, data, constraints, format, and quality bar — so the output can be checked and revised.

03

Producing documents to a standard

Use AI to draft documents while keeping the owner's voice and accountability: structure before style, and always check names, numbers, dates.

04

Summarising and extracting from information

Turn long text into summaries, decisions, and follow-up lists without inventing facts — and name what wasn't found.

05

Research and source-checking

Use web search with evidence, and separate the primary source from opinion. AI can fabricate citations.

06

Gems and reusable helpers

Design a Gem around persona–task–context–format that reduces repetitive typing without doing the thinking for the person.

07

A working AI Brain

Package knowledge, instructions, templates, and a decision log so AI understands the work continuously — updatable, and owned.

08

NotebookLM: working from evidence

Build a notebook that answers only from a defined source set, with citations you actually check — citation is not the same as truth.

09

Turning knowledge into output

Use NotebookLM/AI to turn sources into a briefing, FAQ, checklist, or training material — matched to the audience, checked before release.

10

Data Refinery: from raw data to reusable work

Understand the sequence — ingest, clean, structure, check, reuse — with metadata, schema, provenance, an owner, and a review gate.

11

Choosing media and images with intent

Create images, slides, or media only when they genuinely help communication — with a brief, an audience, and a rights and fact check. An image is not evidence.

12

Real-work clinic and team standards

Combine the twelve weeks into one real, repeatable workflow: human review built in, and only as much prompt and evidence kept as is actually needed.

A task to try

Try this today, before any class

The whole track reduces to one habit: give an instruction complete enough that the result can be checked. Below is a real prompt built on the same frame taught in weeks 2 and 4. Copy it as it is.

Which product are you in front of

This prompt works in any general assistant — Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT — because it is instruction only and leans on no vendor-specific feature.

The difference appears when you want to save it for reuse, because the feature names differ. Week 6 teaches Gems, which is Gemini's name and only Gemini's. The equivalent in Claude and ChatGPT is called Projects. Week 8 uses NotebookLM, a separate Google product rather than a mode inside Gemini.

Following one vendor's instructions on another vendor's screen will simply fail, and that is not your mistake. Check the feature name against the screen actually in front of you first.

Copy this whole block into the chat
Context: I own this piece of work, and I need to summarise the material below for my manager today.
Input: the text I have pasted at the end of this prompt is an unstructured email thread or meeting note.
Task: give me three parts
  1) the facts explicitly stated in the source
  2) the decisions already made, each with its owner
  3) the follow-up items, with deadlines where the source states them
Constraints: do not guess and do not add anything absent from the source. Where something is missing, write "not found in source".
Format: a concise table, no longer than one page.
Quality bar: finish with a heading "What I must check myself" listing three items — pick the points where being wrong would cost the most.

Text:
[paste your email thread or meeting note here]

Before pasting, replace names, customer identities, financial figures and personal data with training or masked values, and use only a tool your company has approved. This is the same safety line the course applies every week.

How it's assessed

Evidence of applied work, not attendance alone.

To pass

  • Attend at least 10 of 12 sessions
  • Submit 8 or more pieces of applied evidence
  • Each piece states its inputs, assumptions/limits, how it was checked, and who owns it

Week 12

  • One integrated piece of real, safe, checkable work
  • Graded on accuracy, tool fit, safety, and demonstrated learning
  • Reviewed by the facilitator against the same rubric used every week

Facilitation rule throughout: use only anonymised or constructed P1 examples; pair learners as task-owner and checker; measure decision quality and reusability, never the number of prompts or apps tried; and if a use case touches sensitive data, finance, personnel, or system access, stop and escalate through P1's approval channel.

What we teach as fact, checked 2026-08-03

The landscape moves; the discipline doesn't.

  • Tools and features change by plan, region, account, and company policy, so this curriculum teaches capability categories and selection criteria — never a guarantee of a specific feature.
  • ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude each handle a persistent workspace or knowledge differently; check current rights and plan before importing or sharing data.
  • NotebookLM is built to answer from a notebook's own sources with inline citations, but the user must still open the sources and check completeness.
  • Web search adds currency and citations but never replaces reading the primary source — AI answers can be wrong or cite sources that don't exist.
  • Any agent or workflow that acts needs a permission boundary, an approval point, a log, and a process owner.

Instructor note: open the official references below before teaching the related session, and match button names and plan tiers to whatever P1 has approved on the teaching day.

Continue

Once a team has this foundation, the natural next step is learning to think with AI rather than only instruct it.

We use this method in our own companies.

This is the curriculum P1 Thailand built and uses to train its own team, before teaching it to anyone else.

Bring this track to your team.

Twelve weeks, one shared foundation, applied to each person's real work.

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