AI for Managers
Better People delivers AI training for managers and team leaders, covering catch-up and briefing, meeting follow-up, team communication and the judgment to supervise how your team uses AI. Sessions run onsite or live online on the tool your organisation licences, priced per cohort from $5,000.
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Why do managers need their own AI training?
Managers are asked to lead AI adoption while learning the tools themselves, usually with the least time of anyone to do it. Training built for individual contributors does not answer the questions they actually have.
A manager's use of AI looks different from their team's. Less of it is producing documents and more of it is absorbing them: the long thread before a decision, the three reports behind a briefing, the meeting they could not attend. The rest is judgment, about what good AI-assisted work looks like when it lands on their desk.
When managers are not confident, teams pick that up. Usage goes quiet or goes private, and the organisation loses sight of both the gains and the risks. Training managers first gives teams permission and a standard to work to.
Where this shows up in the room
Catching up on a long thread or document set before a decision, with the key points and open questions pulled out
Building a briefing note from several reports, with sources you can check
Turning a meeting into an action list with owners while it is still fresh
Explaining a policy or process change to your team in plain language
Practising a difficult conversation with AI as a sparring partner before you have it for real
How a session runs
Managers learn on their own work. Participants bring laptops, work through the demos on the tool your organisation uses, and leave with prompts saved for the briefings, updates and follow-ups they write every week.
Part of every session is about the team, not the manager: what good AI-assisted work looks like when someone hands it to you, which questions to ask about how it was produced, and how to set expectations that encourage use without encouraging shortcuts.
What changes after the training
The outcome we design for is confidence: managers who use AI on their own work and can lead their team's use of it.
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Long threads and reports are absorbed in minutes, not an evening
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Briefings and updates start from a checked draft, not a blank page
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Managers can tell when AI-assisted work needs a second look
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Teams get a clear standard for what is expected, and what is not allowed
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AI use in the team is visible and discussed, not private and improvised
Want this built around your team?
A 30-minute call to scope the format, the tools and the group.
How it is delivered
Workshop
From $5,000 + GST
- Best for
- One team, one tool, a defined gap
- Shape
- Half day per level
- Lead time
- Usually a few weeks
- You keep
- Materials and the prompts built in the session
Custom program
From $5,000 + GST
- Best for
- A rollout across roles or sites
- Shape
- Designed around your workflows
- Lead time
- Four to eight weeks
- You keep
- All curriculum, materials and assessments
Both formats are priced per cohort, not per seat. Prices are AUD, excluding GST. Travel is billed at cost.
Built by practitioners
The people running your session have been AWS instructors and Canva learning designers. At Merri-bek City Council we ran dedicated sessions for directors, branch managers, unit managers and team leaders, alongside sessions for the wider workforce, so leaders could support their teams' use of AI.
Who delivers this training
Garret Blankenship, Co-founder
Co-founder of Better People. 15+ years building AI and cloud systems at AWS and Canva. Develops training courses for Databricks and holds four Databricks certifications.
LinkedIn →How other teams have done it
Local government
Merri-bek City Council brings 150+ staff up to speed on AI
A metropolitan council built AI fluency across its whole workforce before asking anyone to use the tools.
150+people trained
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Enterprise SaaS
AI fluency across SafetyCulture's global workforce
More than 500 people across three continents brought onto the same AI foundation, taught alongside the company's own AI usage policy.
500+people trained globally
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Professional associations
NZVA gives 80+ members a professional framework for using AI safely
NZVA asked its members how they really used AI, then commissioned a live session built directly on what came back.
80+members attended live
Read →Common questions
Should managers be trained before their teams?
Usually, yes. Managers who understand the tools set a clearer standard and answer their team's questions with confidence. At Merri-bek City Council, leaders had their own sessions alongside the wider workforce.
How is this different from your executive training?
This session is for people who lead teams day to day. It is hands-on with the tool on everyday management work. Executive sessions focus on decisions, risk and oversight at leadership level.
Our managers are busy. How long does it take?
Sessions run as a half day per level, or a two-hour version for leadership groups who need a focused start. Both are built around tasks managers would be doing anyway.
Which tools do you cover?
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat, Google Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. We train on whichever tool your organisation already has.
How much does AI training for managers cost?
From $5,000 + GST per cohort, with no headcount limit, so a group of 10 or 60 managers costs the same.
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