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AI Skills & Adoption / Workshop
AI Investment Readiness & Opportunity Review
Give your sponsor a reasoned decision about which AI opportunity to investigate first, what blocks it and what evidence is needed before committing further budget.
Duration1 day
Private cohortUp to 12 stakeholders
Live online£2,495
BookingDates by agreement
Training is the start.
Application is where it counts.
Every course combines live learning, a practical application tool and a one-hour follow-up to review what happened when you put it to work.
Use your course-specific tool.
Use the Opportunity validation and decision tracker to record your starting point, actions, results, obstacles and supporting evidence while applying the learning at work.
Bring the evidence back.
Join a 60-minute live cohort follow-up, normally 30 days after training. Review results with your facilitator, work through obstacles and agree what to change next. A 7- or 15-day review can be agreed where it better fits the application.
Your practical tool
Opportunity validation and decision tracker — a course application workbook supplied to participants for recording implementation and review evidence.
Preview the questions worth asking before you act. The delivery workbook is provided with the course.
How application and follow-up work
The organisation provides time, relevant permissions and an owner for the agreed action. Participants capture evidence in the tool before the review. Agilinks brings facilitated reflection and focused advisory support to help interpret results and decide the next step.
One 60-minute remote follow-up per delivered cohort is included. Where a workshop already includes a one-hour follow-up, this is the same session. For the 12-week programme, the review follows programme completion and is additional to its 36 live hours. Package support allowances of eight or 16 hours remain separate; this review does not reduce them.
The review date and evidence-sharing arrangements are agreed before booking. Share approved summaries or anonymised examples; the workbook stays within your organisation unless you choose to share it. The tool is a working template, not a hosted tracking platform. Implementation is carried out by your team; technical delivery and ongoing consultancy are separately scoped. Results are reviewed honestly, including where an approach did not work.
When this is useful.
Pressure to invest in AI is growing, but the business unit has no agreed investment rationale or reliable view of its constraints.
Who commissions this?
A business-unit leader responsible for the investment decision.
Who should attend?
A sponsor, process owners, representative users, a technology/data owner and relevant risk input from one business unit.
Required background
Participants need direct knowledge of the business unit. The sponsor must be able to resolve scope and priority decisions. No AI expertise is required.
What participants will be able to do.
- Explain the evidence and limitations behind the readiness findings.
- Compare opportunities against explicit value, feasibility and risk criteria.
- Identify whether the next step is training, process change, a pilot design or deeper investigation.
What your organisation takes away.
- A written sponsor decision brief recommending investigate, defer or reject, with reasons.
- An indicative readiness profile distinguishing evidence, assumptions, blockers and unanswered questions.
- A prioritised opportunity shortlist with a recommended first investigation.
- A 30-day plan naming owners, evidence to gather and the next decision point.
What we will work through.
One-day facilitated review: six hours excluding breaks, with preparation and written synthesis. Up to 12 stakeholders.
Indicative sequence and timings. The final agenda is agreed around your organisational priorities.
01Agree the investment question 30 minutes
Define business objective, assessment boundary, decision required and exclusions.
Practical output
Agreed scope and decision statement.
02Establish the current situation 45 minutes
Review existing AI activity, initiatives, policies and available evidence; identify assumptions.
Practical output
Current-state inventory.
03Locate the operational pain 60 minutes
Map delays, repetition, rework, quality issues and hand-offs; examine available measures.
Practical output
Evidence-linked pain-point map.
04Test readiness and confidence 75 minutes
Review people, processes, data, tools, governance and ownership; distinguish evidence from opinion.
Practical output
Indicative readiness profile with confidence and evidence gaps.
05Compare candidate opportunities 60 minutes
Assess value assumptions, feasibility, dependencies, risk, effort and reversibility.
Practical output
Ranked shortlist and recommended first investigation.
06Choose the next intervention 45 minutes
Separate learning gaps from process, technology and governance constraints; consider deeper assessment.
Practical output
Recommended intervention and next-stage scope.
07Make the sponsor decision 45 minutes
Agree investigate/defer/reject recommendation, actions, owners, evidence requirements and decision gates.
Practical output
Sponsor decision brief and 30-day validation plan.
Connect the learning to work.
The sponsor can explain the recommended next investment decision and the evidence still needed. Readiness findings remain provisional where supporting evidence is unavailable.
Pre-work and preparation
Sponsor interview, current initiatives, selected workflow information, available performance evidence and a summary of tool and policy constraints.
What we each contribute
The company supplies operational information and decision-makers. Participants challenge assumptions and accept action ownership. Agilinks facilitates, records the evidence and consolidates the written decision brief.
A clear agreement before booking.
Includes preparation, one facilitated day and a consolidated findings summary. This is not a verified maturity audit. The separate four-week AI Maturity Assessment & Adoption Blueprint includes stakeholder assessment, interviews, process review and a Week 4 blueprint presentation.
Separately priced. Not included in annual short-course allowances; any substitution must be agreed explicitly in your proposal.
Need a deeper investigation? Explore the four-week assessment and blueprint ↗
Private live-online delivery. On-site arrangements, travel, substantial customisation and paid software licences are quoted separately. Applicable tax treatment, dates, session hours, final agenda, output scope and payment and cancellation terms are confirmed in your written proposal.
Discuss your needs → agreed proposal → purchase order where required → invoice and bank transfer. No payment is taken on this website.
Questions from L&D and business teams.
Can this align with our capability framework?
Yes. Share your business priorities, role expectations and existing framework during scoping. We agree the learning objectives, relevant exercises and evaluation approach in the proposal.
Is certification included?
This is an independent Agilinks offering. No external accreditation, examination or SAFe certification is included or implied.
Can you tailor the agenda?
We agree relevant examples and priorities before booking. Substantial redesign, additional outputs or implementation support are separately scoped.