
PUBLIC COURSE
Building AI Enabled Teams and Workflows
Help people turn AI capability into better ways of working
AI can help you write, analyse, build, and automate. Your team still needs to understand what has been produced, check that it meets the need, manage dependencies, and take responsibility for what happens when it is used.
This programme helps you design those connections, from your own work with AI to team collaboration and automated workflows. You will explore the context, evidence, and controls needed to make the whole flow useful and accountable.
What you will gain
You will leave with a clearer way to decide what to automate, where human judgement is needed, and what evidence should travel with the work. You will be better equipped to discuss trade-offs with product, change, and governance colleagues, and to design practices that make AI-supported delivery easier to understand and improve.
One challenge developed across five days
You will work through a connected organisational case with various different scenarios, developing from individual AI use into team practices, redesigned workflows, governance arrangements, and expertise in organisational intelligence.
The programmes draw on Simon Powers's book Deeper Change and the Academy's five private AI courses. They incorporate continuing work on human-AI collaboration, the Proven Trust Envelope, and Hyphoria organisational intelligence.
Learning objectives & outcomes
By the end of the programme, you will be able to:
Structure work with an AI assistant using relevant context, explicit intent, and checks appropriate to the task.
Design team agreements for AI-supported work that make contribution, review, ownership, and shared understanding visible.
Build Jira tickets, architecture, and code from conversations in your team.
Improve team dynamics with help and suggested interventions from AI.
Map and redesign a workflow that enhances developer experience and that combines people, AI, and automation, including handoffs, acceptance criteria, and recovery when something fails.
Specify permissions, evidence, approval points, and confidentiality boundaries for a bounded use case using the Proven Trust Envelope approach.
Build evidence-based delivery that can support developer and architectural learning, including its provenance, limits, and permitted uses.
Create an initial implementation and delivery plan that tests value, quality, checking effort, and operational consequences.
WHO IT IS FOR
Software developers, technical team leads, engineering leads, and hands-on practitioners working with digital products, services, or automation. It suits people who want to improve their team's use of AI and understand how technical decisions connect with wider organisational responsibilities.
Prerequisites
Bring practical experience of software delivery, technical teamwork, or automation, and a workflow you would like to improve. Familiarity with an AI assistant is helpful. No specialist machine learning background is required.
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LEARNING JOURNEY
The five day learning journey
Day 1 Individual capability and human AI partnership
Start with your own work. Explore how an ongoing relationship with AI can support thinking, learning, and action, and how to retain responsibility for the result.
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Frame a useful task, provide relevant context, and work iteratively with an AI assistant.
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Recognise uncertainty, challenge assumptions, and judge when an answer needs stronger evidence or expert review.
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Set boundaries around memory, confidential information, delegated work, and human decision-making.
Your practical output: A human-AI working agreement setting out purpose, context, responsibilities, boundaries, and checks.
Day 2 Team collaboration
Explore how AI changes the way a team thinks and works together. Examine how facilitation shapes the behaviours AI may amplify, including whose voice is heard and how the team reaches a decision.
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Design collaborative activities that combine human expertise with AI contributions.
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Use facilitation to surface assumptions, disagreement, and missing perspectives.
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Explore changing roles and flexible teaming while keeping capacity, ownership, and shared understanding visible.
Your practical output: A team collaboration design with working agreements, contribution and review roles, and a facilitated activity.
Day 3 Workflows and automation
Follow the work beyond one person or team. Identify where AI can improve the whole flow and where faster production may shift effort or risk downstream.
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Map handoffs, queues, checking, rework, and the decisions that determine value.
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Design a workflow combining human work, AI assistance, and bounded automation, with clear acceptance criteria and recovery paths.
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Identify the context and evidence each next step needs, and measure value alongside tool costs, checking effort, and quality.
Your practical output: A redesigned workflow with automation opportunities, evidence requirements, human review points, and measures of improvement.
Governance and organisational intelligence
Day 4 Enabling constraints and the Proven Trust Envelope
Design governance that helps people know what they can do, what evidence they need, and when to involve someone else. Explore enabling constraints: boundaries that make responsible action possible and clarify accountability.
Work with the Proven Trust Envelope, an approach for defining the conditions within which an AI-supported action can be trusted for a particular purpose. These conditions depend on evidence, context, authority, and controls, and need to be reviewed as those things change.
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Define the intended use, permitted actions, decision rights, evidence requirements, and limits of a bounded use case.
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Distinguish access to information from authority to act, and identify when an action may proceed, needs approval, or must stop.
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Design confidentiality boundaries between individual, team, departmental, and organisational workspaces.
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Explore proportionate pathways for experimentation and operational use, and how governance evidence can support risk and regulatory discussions.
Your practical output: A draft trust envelope and decision record, including permissions, approval triggers, confidentiality boundaries, and review conditions.
Day 5 Organisational intelligence
Bring the whole journey together. Explore how an organisation can use evidence from its work and people's experience to understand what is happening, choose a useful response, and learn whether that response helps.
Examples from Hyphoria illustrate how documents, meeting transcripts, and delivery evidence can be examined through organisational lenses to reveal possible patterns of alignment, friction, and emerging risk. You will consider how people test those interpretations before acting.
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Trace an insight back to its sources and assess the strength, independence, relevance, and limits of the evidence.
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Explore patterns across teams without assuming that information may cross every confidentiality boundary.
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Connect insight to a decision, an owner, an intervention, and evidence of what happens next.
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Develop an initial plan for improving organisational learning and adaptive capacity.
Your practical output: An organisational intelligence and learning plan connecting a question, permitted evidence, interpretation, action, and review.
Together, the five outputs form one practical portfolio showing how your case develops from individual AI use into a coherent way of working and learning.
What you take back to work
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Your five connected practical outputs and an initial plan for applying them.
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Course materials and reusable templates to support conversations, design work, and decisions with colleagues.
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A shared language for connecting individual AI use, collaboration, workflows, governance, and organisational learning.
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Certification proving you can do all of the outcomes for this programme.
What you will need
The course will be run remotely, so you will need your own machine and access to a generative AI assistant. Online participants need a reliable connection and microphone. Check employer restrictions on tools and information, and contact us about any access needs or adjustments.
Optional preparation
Watch Simon's webinar on AI change strategy and the future of AI in organisations, or read Deeper Change: From individual capability to AI-enabled organisational intelligence, particularly its chapters on individual AI use, teams, workflows, governance, and organisational intelligence.
Both are optional. You can participate fully without having watched the webinar or read the book.

Practical and participative
You will learn through facilitated exercises, demonstrations, small-group work, reflection, and discussion. Concepts are introduced through practical situations and applied to the continuing case.
You can bring questions from your own organisation and adapt the learning to your context. Shared exercises use provided examples or information that is suitable to share, so participation does not depend on disclosing confidential organisational material.
One day per week for five weeks: Time between sessions gives you space to notice what is happening in your own workplace, try an appropriate practice, and bring questions back to the group.
15th, 22nd, 29th January, 3rd, 12th February 2027
(5 consecutive Fridays)
9am until 4.30 pm
PRICE: £2,999 +VAT
Certification that proves you can demonstrate and apply
This is a certified courses, with practical assessment across the five-day journey. Assessment focuses on your ability to explain your choices, apply the learning to a realistic case, and recognise the responsibilities and limits involved.
Facilitated exercises and discussion provide opportunities to demonstrate understanding and receive feedback. Certification depends on demonstrating the required outcomes.

Meet Your Course Leader

Simon Powers
Founder/CEO
Simon Powers founded The Deeper Change Academy and Adventures with Agile and is the author of Change: A Practitioner's Guide to Enterprise Agile Coaching and Deeper Change. He combines experience in enterprise technology, organisational change, leadership development, and systems coaching with current work on AI-enabled workflows, governance, and Hyphoria. His facilitation helps participants question assumptions and turn ideas into actions they can test.