A six-week facilitated micro-credential for Queensland small business owners, with a two-hour workshop each week delivered in person and by Zoom. It helps participants assess their business, match AI to business goals and bring AI in step by step to lift productivity.
The step after AI Foundations: learners take a workflow they repeat, break it into steps, find where AI adds value and build a practical plan to use AI across that process, turning one-off prompts into repeatable workflows.
Objectives
Understand the AI tools and applications available to small business
Assess where AI fits in your own business
Align AI use with business goals
Plan a gradual rollout of AI to improve productivity
Map a recurring piece of work into clear steps
Identify which steps AI can help with and which need a person
Turn useful prompts into a repeatable workflow
Build a practical plan for using AI across a real process
Things to know
Queensland small and family businesses only
Scheduled cohorts, next listed starting Tuesday 20 October 2026 (Cairns, with Zoom option)
12 hours is the workshop time only (6 x 2 hours); extra self-directed activities are not quantified
Module titles are not published
Uses ChatGPT specifically.
Course is about 80 minutes; the full learning path with assessment is listed at 1h 50m.
Badge requires passing an assessment at 80% or higher.
Lesson-level module titles are only visible after enrolling; the public page lists the course plus its assessment.
OpenAI says badges and certificates of completion are not certifications and do not guarantee eligibility for a future OpenAI Certification.
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