Your team already has the tools. Now they will use them.

Most people use a small slice of Excel, have never opened Power BI, and are guessing at AI. Start with the free readiness check below; it takes about five minutes. When you want help in the room, I run hands-on sessions where people work in real files and leave able to apply the learning to "real world" work on Monday.

Professional portrait Rob McCoy, Principal Instructor
Professional portrait Rob McCoy, Principal Instructor

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Practical AI and functional data skills for working teams

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Before AI can carry a process, the process has to be ready

Pick one process your team depends on. Ask each question in order. The first “no” is the rung you’re on, and the question you just failed is your next step.

Undocumented

“If that person is out for two weeks, does this still go well?”

Documented

Judged

Delegated

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“Could a competent new hire follow it without asking a question?”

“Does the document say why you choose A over B at the fork?

“Is there a written log and a human review before anything irreversible occurs?”

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Free tool · The Process Readiness Ladder

When you want help in the room

  • A general session gives a whole room a shared perspective, strategy, and starting point.

  • A workshop puts hands on keyboards. Every session is shaped around your people and, where it helps, your own files.

Working together

Keynotes and general sessions

For meeting and Event planners

Hands-on workshops

For Learning &Development and HR

  • Attendees will assess and score one real process and see what has to be true before AI can carry it.

  • Everyone leaves with three things to try this week.

  • 45–60 min In person or virtual

AI at Work

Strategic Skills Series

Making Sense of Your Numbers

Strategic Skills Series

  • Attendees learn to tell a useful number from a decorative one.

  • Everyone leaves knowing which reports to stop making.

  • 45–60 min In person or virtual

Excel for Data Analytics
Power BI Essentials

FUNctional Skills Series

FUNctional Skills Series

  • Participants learn efficient and effective methods for cleaning a messy file in minutes instead of hours.

  • They build a report that updates itself.

  • One half day with up to 20 participants attending

    in-person or virtual

  • Participants build a working dashboard from their own data.

  • They can refresh it next month without help.

  • One half day with up to 20 participants attending
    in-person or virtual

On-Call Speaker

For meeting and Event planners

A speaker dropped out and the program still says 10:30. If one of my open dates matches yours, I can step in. Tell me the audience and the time slot, and I’ll bring a practical session on AI or data at work, shaped for your room; check my calendar for location and availability.

What changes, and how to check it yourself

A quick check with your own numbers

People on the team 20

Loaded cost per hour $35

Time saved each, per week 1 hour

Value returned per week $700

For Learning &Development and HR

Swap in your own headcount and hourly cost.
Even at 30 minutes a week, the number is worth a conversation.

Over a 50-week working year $35,000

A question about a process, an event that needs a speaker, or a team that’s ready for more. Send a note and I’ll reply personally, with no pressure to book anything.

  • Walk one process through the Readiness Ladder together,
    free, in 45 minutes

  • Talk through a session or workshop for your team

  • Find a speaker for an upcoming event, including on short notice

  • Or just ask a question about something you read here

Tell me what you’re working on

Let's talk

Rob McCoy teaches people how to actually use AI and analytics at work; not what the technology is, but instructs what participants can do with it on Monday morning. Through Rob McCoy Workshops he runs practical sessions for business teams, HR and L&D groups, public sector organizations, and member associations, translating the same material for a skeptical executive and a hands-on operator in the same room.

His Process Readiness Ladder gives a team a plain way to score one real process and see the next step it needs before AI can carry it.

Rob McCoy

301-573-3870

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