Beginner Friendly | Intermediate Level | For Non-Technical Professionals

The Strategic Upgrade for Modern HR Professionals

HR Mastery With AI is a one-day intensive workshop designed to help HR professionals move beyond administrative overload and reactive execution—towards strategic, system-driven HR practices supported by AI.

Today, HR teams are expected to move faster, ensure compliance, improve engagement, and contribute meaningfully to business decisions. At the same time, the rise of Generative AI brings both opportunity and risk.

This workshop focuses on how HR can adopt AI safely, ethically, and effectively—to reduce transactional effort, improve decision quality, and enhance employee experience—while keeping human judgment firmly in control.

This is not about replacing HR expertise. It is about augmenting HR capability with structured workflows, safeguards, and practical systems.

Workshop Module:

This workshop focusses on how to use AI safely, strategically, and with authority.

Morning builds your foundation in safe, compliant AI usage. Afternoon puts it into practice with hands-on builds and real HR use cases.

Module 1 — AI Foundations and the Tools Landscape

From Curious User to Confident Operator

Most professionals have used ChatGPT once or twice but have never been taught how AI actually works or why their prompts produce inconsistent results. This module builds that foundation properly, so everything else in the day builds on solid ground.

Topics Covered:

How large language models actually work, explained without jargon

The current AI tools landscape: what each tool is genuinely good for, and what is hype

The CCTS framework (Context, Constraints, Task, Style) for writing prompts that produce usable output on the first try

Why most AI interactions fail, and how to diagnose a bad prompt

Passive AI tools for meetings and research: Fireflies, Granola, Perplexity, NotebookLM, and more.

What You'll Walk Away With:

A working mental model of what AI can and cannot do, so you stop guessing

The CCTS framework, ready to apply to any HR writing task from tomorrow morning

The prompting framework that produces consistent, high-quality output

Module 2 — Data Privacy and Safe AI Adoption

The Conversation Every HR Team Needs and Usually Skips

HR handles the most sensitive data in any organisation, yet most teams use public AI tools without a second thought about what they are uploading. This module makes the risk concrete, then gives you a system to remove it entirely.

Topics Covered

DPDP Act 2023: what it actually requires from HR teams using AI tools

The Green Zone and Red Zone: a simple test for what is safe to paste into any AI tool

System prompts: setting up a personal AI assistant that knows your role, your tone, and what it should never do

The difference between a generic AI interaction and one built for your specific function

What You'll Walk Away With

A clear, simple rule you can apply instantly to decide if something is safe to share with AI

Your own system prompt, set up and tested during the session

A practical understanding of DPDP compliance as it applies to everyday HR AI use, not just a policy document

Module 3 — AI-Assisted Recruitment and Screening

From Three Days of CV Review to Three Minutes, Done Properly

This is the centrepiece of the day. You will build a complete, end-to-end recruitment screening workflow, live, using your own laptop, and walk out with a system you can run again on Monday morning.

Topics Covered

Why inconsistent screening criteria and missing audit trails create real organisational risk

A hands-on CV masking tool that removes personal data before anything touches an AI system

Building a structured screening prompt with adjustable scoring criteria for any role

The Logic Log: auditing AI reasoning to catch hidden bias before it affects a hiring decision

What You'll Walk Away With

A reusable, adjustable scoring framework for any job description you are hiring for

The ability to spot a keyword-stuffed CV that would otherwise pass an automated filter

A defensible, documented reasoning trail for every screening decision you make

Module 4 — AI Tools for L&D and Building Your Own HR Systemst

From Using AI Tools to Building Your Own

The final module moves from using existing AI tools to creating something new. You will turn a real policy document into multiple training assets in minutes, then get a live introduction to building your own internal HR tools without writing code.

Topics Covered:

Using NotebookLM to turn any HR policy document into an interactive resource

Generating onboarding FAQs, training quizzes, and audio briefings from a single source document

A live, no-code build of an HR tool: a recruitment tracker, onboarding checklist, or policy chatbot

A 30-day roadmap for embedding everything from the day into your actual weekly workflow

Open Q&A

What You'll Walk Away With:

The ability to convert any policy document into an onboarding resource and training quiz in under 10 minutes

A first-hand look at how no-code AI tools are built, demystifying what once required a developer

A concrete 30-day plan with one new AI habit to build each week

A full resource pack: every prompt, tool, and framework used during the day, ready to reuse