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AI at Work: Save Time and Work Smarter

About the program

Discover how today’s AI tools can help you save time and work smarter. Learn practical ways to streamline everyday tasks, create simple AI-powered helpers, protect business information, and develop an AI plan for your organization.  

Build confidence using AI at work with our eight-hour course.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday work, but many professionals and organizations are still figuring out how to leverage it. This course gives learners a practical foundation for understanding what AI can do, where it adds value, and where the risks and limitations are.

  • Practical: Built for non-technical professionals who want real-world guidance they can use immediately.
  • Responsible: Covers bias, privacy, accuracy, human oversight, and workplace decision-making.
  • Actionable: Learners leave with frameworks, review strategies, and a personal plan for AI use at work.

Why it matters

AI use is growing fast. This course helps people stay current, reduce risk, and build a shared language for safe, effective use at work.

Who this is for

Designed for professionals, managers, and teams who want to use AI in a way that supports people and strengthens organizations.

Meet the Instructor

Alyse Mitten founded Interlace Communications in 1995 and has spent three decades helping organizations communicate clearly, work efficiently, and adapt to change. Her experience spans website design, commercial printing, social media, email marketing, and AI consulting.

Today, Mitten focuses on helping professionals understand how to use AI in practical, responsible ways. As a Certified AI Consultant, she helps organizations adopt AI ethically and effectively. She shows leaders how tools like ChatGPT and automation can save time, support decision-making, and improve everyday work without the hype to build practical strategies that make AI approachable, human-centered, and useful in the workplace.

Her book, AI Resistance, explores how to adopt AI with ethics, clarity, and confidence. Mitten brings a grounded, real-world perspective to the responsible AI conversation, emphasizing thoughtful implementation and practical workplace impact.

Course Offerings

  • Wednesdays, Jan 20, 27, Feb. 3 and 10, 2027 
  • 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. 
  • Instruction delivered live via Zoom 
  • Cost: $349 ($50 early registration discount available if registered by December 20, 2026)
    Register

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Workforce Development

Erica Kunkel
Director, Continuing Education and Outreach
610-396-6221
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Penn State Schuylkill provides the academic opportunities of a world-class university in a setting as intimate and comfortable as that of a small college.
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