Instructor-led workshop for organisations · Managers and teams

Leading Teams Through AI Change: test each change, measure it, and keep what works

Most AI change starts with a tool and a target. This programme teaches managers to decide which tasks change, test one change first with a clear measure, and correct it when it creates new errors or hidden work.

Who should attend

Line managers, heads of department, transformation leads and learning and development (L&D) partners who are changing how a team works because of AI.

Length

One day or two days.

Delivery

In person, led by a facilitator. Participants practise workplace decisions on StepSim, the AIR APAC decision simulator built by Exeter Labs.

Participants receive

A Record of Completion for each participant who completes the programme. A separate, optional assessment can lead to certification under AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. The certification is valid for two years and verified free on a public register.

Run for your group, with case files written for your sector. Dates are agreed in the proposal.

Why this programme

The problem it solves

Most AI change starts with a tool and a target. The manager still has to decide which tasks change, which stay with people, what staff must learn, and how to tell whether the change worked.

These decisions are often made once, without a test, and not corrected when the change creates new errors or hidden work.

Outcomes

By the end, participants can

  1. Sort the team's work into what AI may draft, what it may help with, and what a person must own.
  2. Choose one change to test first, with a clear measure and a date to review it.
  3. Bring in the staff whose work changes before the decision, and tell them what is decided and why.
  4. Notice when a change creates new errors, hidden work or a loss of skill, and correct it.
  5. Report to senior management what changed, what it cost and what was learned, including what did not work.
For the sponsor

What your organisation receives

  • One day: each participant's written change to how they and their team check AI work, with an owner and a date.
  • Two days: a follow-up workshop on using the method at work, a report for the sponsor, and a manager review within ten working days.
Agenda

How it runs

STEP (Structure, Test, Engage, Perform) is the method every AIR Academy programme teaches. It is four questions a manager asks before acting on an AI answer. The four questions come from AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work.

One day or two days. Each participant brings one team change they are planning, or works on a fictional team prepared for the programme. Work on real plans follows the privacy rules in the questions below.

The two-day edition adds a review plan: the measure, the date, and who decides whether the change stays.

Compare the half day, the one day, the two days and the certification edition on the programme formats page.

Cases

Composites written for the programme: a customer service team adding an AI assistant ("ReplyAI"), a finance team using an AI tool to close the month ("CloseAI"), a public office drafting replies to citizens with AI.

Built on

AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. The programme covers all four areas, with most weight on who decides and who must be told (Engage), committing to a change and correcting it (Perform), and setting its scope and limits (Structure).

Instructors

Who leads your programme

Programme lead

Lead facilitator

AIR APAC provides the lead facilitator, who is named in your course proposal. Later deliveries can also be led by your training provider's own facilitator.

Facilitator certification

How facilitators are certified

AIR APAC certifies facilitators under section 20.6 of AIRS-J/1. Training providers can send their trainers to the facilitator programme. If your organisation has its own rules for who may train your staff, tell us in the enquiry.

Credentials

What participants receive

WhatWhat it isIn this programme
Record of CompletionA record, issued by AIR APAC, of what each person attended and practised.Included for everyone who completes.
AIRS-J/1 certification, Professional trackAIR APAC’s own credential for judgment in AI-enabled work, assessed against a public standard with a published rubric. Anyone can verify it free by code on a public register. Valid for two years.Optional. Choose the certification edition, and participants take a separate assessment within 30 days of the programme. The proposal sets out the arrangements.

How AIRS-J/1 certification works.

Questions from buyers

Before you request a proposal

Will our confidential information go into AI tools?

No. The exercises use fictional case files. Where participants work on their own tasks, they use only an AI tool their organisation permits for that information, remove identifying and confidential details first, or use a fictional version instead. Nothing they show in the session is kept or recorded, and it is never used for certification. Your organisation receives these conditions before the programme starts.

Can it be fitted to our sector, our rules and our language?

Cases are set in your sector and under your country’s rules. Tell us which in your request. With your organisation’s written consent, cases can also be based on your own organisation. Programmes run in English. If your group needs another language, name it in your request.

In person or online, and how many people?

The facilitated editions are led in person. Group size, and any live online option, are agreed in the proposal.

How is the price set, and how soon can it run?

Each group receives a quoted price in its proposal. The price depends on the edition, the number of participants, the location, and whether the certification edition is included. No group has completed this programme yet. Case files are written for your sector and your group, and the start date is agreed in the proposal.

How will we know it worked?

Each edition opens with a StepSim Practice mission played the usual way and closes with an unseen mission of the same kind. You see what changed in how your group checks AI work. The written outputs are listed under What your organisation receives. This shows change during the programme, not results at work.

Is AIRS-J/1 certification recognised by a regulator or professional body?

No regulator, university or professional body recognises this credential. ISO/IEC 17024 is a design reference only. AIRS-J/1 certification is issued by AIR APAC under a public standard. See the credentials table.

Does the programme cover job design, staffing levels or employment law?

No. It covers the decisions a manager makes when AI changes how a team works. It is not training on any AI tool.

What is AIRS-J/1?

AIRS-J/1 is the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. It is public, with a published rubric and scoring rules, and a named Review Board governs it. It defines the four areas the programme teaches.

For training providers

Bring this programme to your clients

You keep your client. Training providers own the client relationship and invoice the client directly. AIR APAC supplies the programme design, case files written for your client’s sector, StepSim Practice missions and, for your first delivery, the lead facilitator. You agree the fit to your client, the subject expert who co-facilitates, and the commercial terms directly with AIR APAC. Facilitators who want to run StepSim sessions in their own programmes can join the facilitator programme.