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AI Professional Training

AI Skills Your Team Can Apply From Day One

Hands-on training that takes your team from AI basics to using Claude confidently in everyday work. Practical, role-specific, and built for South African businesses.

Full-Day Training 3-Month Programme In-Person & Virtual Okiru LMS Included Certificate on Completion

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Why train your team with Okiru

Real skills, real outputs, and a measurable return — designed for how South African teams actually work.

Apply From Day One

Practical, role-specific skills your team puts to work in real tasks immediately — not theory.

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Built for SA Business

POPIA-aware, compliance-ready, and tailored to the South African business context.

Assessed Deliverables

Every learner produces a real output that proves the skill in their own role.

Certificate on Completion

Recognised proof of learning plus a practical assessment.

Okiru LMS Included

Interactive pre-reading, videos, exercises and progress tracking for every level.

B-BBEE Skills Credit

SETA-aligned training spend can count toward your Skills Development scorecard element.

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From a fast commercial uplift to a fully governed, sustained adoption programme.

Full-Day

Full-Day AI Training

A practical full-day session for up to 20 delegates. All prices exclude VAT. See the current per-person fee on the AI training programme page. Private in-house sessions are quoted separately.

Commercial AI use-cases for real work
Prompting that works: structures & quality checks
Safe tool setup with governance guardrails
Hands-on activities & role-specific workflows
Assessed deliverable + certificate

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3-Month Programme

For teams that want sustained adoption, measured improvement and governed AI usage across every function. Group training is limited to 20 participants per session. See the three-month programme fee per person, excluding VAT, and the full inclusions on okiru.co.za.

Structured multi-week learning path
Okiru LMS access throughout
Measured improvement & adoption tracking
Governed usage across the business
Certificate on completion

2-Hour

Deep Dive Workshops

Focused two-hour sessions on specific skills for up to 20 participants per session. Fees are per session and exclude VAT. Run standalone or stack them into a broader programme. View workshop fees and request a quotation confirming the selected sessions and total payable.

Safe AI Use & Compliance
Prompt Mastery & Creativity
Copilot Workflow Automation
Claude Customisation
AI-powered Reporting & Analysis

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What you'll learn — Claude for Business

Go beyond asking questions to producing real work: documents, analysis, proposals, reports and automated workflows.

Getting Started with Claude

Setup, plans & capabilities, when to use Claude vs other tools, and POPIA data-privacy considerations.

Prompting Effectively

Clear instructions, context, iteration and examples for consistent, business-quality results.

Documents & Reports

Draft proposals, reports, emails and policies — and improve existing documents in your company tone.

Analysis

Work with spreadsheets, summarise long documents and prepare board-ready insights.

Projects & Knowledge

Set up Projects with your company context so Claude understands your business every time.

AI in Daily Workflows

Identify which tasks move to AI, build repeatable templates, and measure the time saved.

Ready to upskill your team?

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Prompt Builder · CRAFT method

Build the perfect prompt, step by step

No jargon. Answer five short questions — C·R·A·F·T — and we'll assemble a professional prompt you can paste into any AI.

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RRole

AAction

FFormat

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Step 1Choose your AI

Which AI will you paste this into? We'll point the “open” button at the right place.

Why does this matter?

Every model has strengths. Claude shines on long documents and professional writing, ChatGPT is a strong all-rounder, and Perplexity cites live sources. Your CRAFT prompt works in any of them — this just decides where we send you at the end.

Context · CSet the scene

What background should the AI know before it starts?

See an example & why it helps

Context stops the AI guessing. Include who the output is for, the situation, any limits, and the key facts it needs.

Example: “We're a South African B2B software company. The reader is a CFO with no technical background. Budget is tight and the tone should stay formal but friendly.”

Role · RGive it a persona

Who should the AI act as? An expert role sharpens the answer.

See an example & why it helps

Telling the AI who to be pulls it into the right knowledge and voice for the job.

Example: “Act as a senior management consultant who has led HR transformation projects for financial-services firms.”

Action · ASay what you want

What exactly do you want it to do? Be specific about the result.

See an example & why it helps

This is the heart of your prompt. Name the deliverable and what it must contain.

Example: “Write a 10-slide proposal outline for an HR transformation project. Include scope, timeline, pricing assumptions and key risks.”

Format · FShape the output

How should the answer be laid out?

See an example & why it helps

Format tells the AI the structure and length you expect, so you get something usable first time.

Example: “Use clear headings and bullet points. Keep it under 400 words. End with a short action checklist.”

Tone · TSet the voice

How should it sound?

See an example & why it helps

Tone keeps the writing on-brand and right for your reader.

Example: “Direct, professional and warm. Plain UK English. No buzzwords or filler.”

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Here's your finished prompt, assembled from your answers. Copy it and paste it into your AI.

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