Universal · Original 101PD learning guide

AI for Professional Work: Prompting, Verification, Privacy, and Responsible Use

A tool-neutral operating method for using generative AI while protecting confidential information, checking claims, documenting judgment, and keeping a human accountable.

The useful workplace skill is not producing more text. It is knowing what to delegate, what information must stay out of a tool, how to verify the result, and when a person must make the final decision.

Skills you will practice

  • Task decomposition
  • Prompt design
  • Source verification
  • Privacy screening
  • Human-review controls

Prerequisites

  • Comfort using a web browser and ordinary workplace documents.

Designed for

Administrative professionals · Managers · Small-business owners · Licensed professionals

What a learner should be able to do

  1. Outcome 1

    Choose appropriate and inappropriate workplace uses for generative AI.

  2. Outcome 2

    Write prompts that provide purpose, context, constraints, and an output standard.

  3. Outcome 3

    Verify factual, numerical, legal, and policy-sensitive claims before use.

  4. Outcome 4

    Create a lightweight record of inputs, review, revisions, and final responsibility.

Original curriculum architecture

The final course will expand these modules with original explanations, realistic cases, practice questions, and source review.

Module 1

Choose the task

Risk-tier work before selecting a tool or writing a prompt.

Module 2

Prompt with a specification

Purpose, audience, facts, boundaries, format, and review criteria.

Module 3

Verify and revise

Sources, calculations, omissions, bias, counterexamples, and human approval.

Module 4

Protect the organization

Confidentiality, access, records, vendor terms, and responsible-use policy.

Applied portfolio exercise

Responsible AI workflow

Design and test a repeatable AI-assisted workflow for a real professional task without sharing private client or company information.

  • Risk screen
  • Prompt specification
  • Verification log
  • Human approval checklist

Sources and boundaries

Sources establish current requirements and standards. They do not supply 101PD’s lesson text, scenarios, assessments, or project work.