# Becoming the AI-Forward Professional in Your Field > An online, self-paced AI course from ARFA, the TIBLOGICS AI Academy. Beginner to Intermediate level, about 18.5 hours, in English and French, with a verifiable certificate. Web page: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-forward-professional ยท All tracks: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box.md ## Key facts - Level: Beginner to Intermediate - Time: about 18.5 hours including hands-on work (6 modules, 26 lessons, 6 labs); self-paced, no deadline - Price: $297 one time for lifetime access to this track, or every track for $89 a month (cancel anytime) - Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI-Forward Professional, with a public verification page - Languages: English and French ## About You are good at your work. AI is changing how that work gets done, and it can feel like everyone else got a head start. This track is for professionals who want to catch up calmly and then lead. You will get past the intimidation with quick, real wins, learn the key tools worth your time, build workflows that save hours on email, meetings, documents and research, sort your own tasks into what to automate, augment or keep human, and measure the time you save honestly. Then you will help your workplace adopt AI: a small pilot, a case your manager can say yes to, and support for anxious colleagues. Every lesson has prompts you run on the page with your own (non-confidential) work, and the labs are done on the platform. The capstone is a 30-day AI-forward project in your real job. Who it is for: Experienced professionals in any field (healthcare, law, finance, education, social work, government, sales, HR, the trades) who feel intimidated or behind on AI and want to lead with it. ## What you will be able to do - Use AI confidently for everyday work: email, meetings, documents and research - Choose the key AI tools for your role and set them up safely - Sort your own work into automate, augment and keep human, and measure time saved honestly - Protect confidential information and stay accountable for AI-assisted work - Run a small AI pilot and make a case your manager can approve - Help colleagues adopt AI and build a 90-day plan for your own career ## Curriculum ### Module 1: Getting Past the Intimidation Understand what AI can and cannot do in professional work, face the common fears honestly, get three quick wins on real tasks, and set up a short daily habit that builds fluency without taking over your week. - What AI can and cannot do in professional work (22 min) - The fears, honestly (24 min) - Your first three wins in 30 minutes (28 min) - The 15-minute daily practice habit (20 min) - Module quiz ### Module 2: The Key AI Tools to Learn Get to know the main categories of AI tool a professional needs: general assistants, AI built into the software you already use, research and analysis tools, and tools for visuals, presentations and simple automation. Learn how to set each up sensibly and safely. - General assistants: your all-purpose AI colleague (26 min) - AI inside the tools you already use (24 min) - Research and analysis tools (26 min) - Visuals, presentations and simple automation (24 min) - Personal AI agents: Meta Muse and ChatGPT dots (26 min) - Module quiz ### Module 3: Productivity Workflows That Actually Save Time Turn AI into real time savings on the work that fills most professional weeks: email, meetings and documents. Finish by building a personal prompt library so the gains repeat every week instead of starting from scratch. - Email and everyday communication (24 min) - Meetings: prep, notes, actions and follow-ups (24 min) - Documents and reports (28 min) - Building your personal prompt library (26 min) - Module quiz ### Module 4: Your Field, AI-Forward Take stock of your own work, see how AI-forward professionals in different fields use it, measure what it really saves you, and stay on the right side of quality, confidentiality and accountability. - The task inventory: automate, augment or keep human (25 min) - Field playbooks: how AI-forward professionals work (28 min) - Measuring your own time savings honestly (22 min) - Quality, confidentiality and accountability (25 min) - Safe AI use at work: keys, connected apps and agents (22 min) - Module quiz ### Module 5: Bringing Your Workplace Along See adoption as a system of incentives, fears and feedback loops, run a small pilot with a baseline, make a clear case to your manager, and help anxious colleagues get started. - Adoption is a system (25 min) - Starting a small pilot (24 min) - Making the case to your manager (22 min) - Helping colleagues who are anxious (24 min) - Module quiz ### Module 6: Your AI-Forward Career Build a portfolio of AI use cases and results, keep up to date without overwhelm, decide where you draw ethical lines in your field, and commit to a 90-day plan. - Building a portfolio of AI use cases (22 min) - Staying current without overwhelm (20 min) - Ethics and judgement: where you draw lines (24 min) - Your 90-day AI-forward plan (26 min) - Module quiz ## How you are assessed - A quiz after each module (80% to pass, retakes allowed). - A timed final exam: 35 questions in 50 minutes, 75% to pass, 90% for distinction, 3 attempts. - A capstone project reviewed by a person against a published rubric (70% to pass). - Each certificate has a public page at https://tiblogics.com/certificates/ that anyone can open to check it.