The difference between using AI and thinking with AI is the difference between looking up an answer and developing judgment. Most leaders interact with AI the way they interact with a search engine — they ask a question, receive a response, and either accept it or discard it. The interaction is transactional. Nothing compounds. The AI knows nothing about your business context, your strategic tensions, your decision patterns, or the management disciplines you are trying to sustain. It gives you its best generic response and moves on. You are working with a capable stranger every single time.
The programme is structured across six sessions. You begin with setup and orientation — confirming access, understanding the vocabulary, and establishing your current baseline of AI use. From there, each session builds a practical capability: using AI to develop A3 problem-solving papers where the AI acts as a structured thinking partner rather than a document writer; using AI to analyse KPI patterns where it surfaces signals you would miss in a spreadsheet; using AI to prepare decisions by having it challenge your assumptions before you commit; using AI to document and improve standard work by having it question whether your documented process matches your actual process.
Each session produces something you use immediately in your management work. This is not a technology course. There is no discussion of algorithms, model architectures, or technical implementation. The entire focus is on the practice of thinking with AI in the context of management work — the work you are already doing, done better because you have a thinking partner that never tires, never forgets the thread of an argument, and never hesitates to ask the question you have been avoiding.
This programme changes that relationship fundamentally. It develops the discipline of working with AI as a thinking partner — a partner that questions your reasoning, surfaces assumptions you have not examined, holds complexity that exceeds your working memory, and challenges you from perspectives you would not naturally adopt. The shift begins with a simple experiment. You ask a generic AI a business question and observe what it assumes. Then you ask the same question through a system message designed for your context — one that understands your industry, your management framework, your decision criteria — and observe how the conversation changes. That gap between the generic response and the contextualised response is where the learning begins. It reveals how much of what AI gives you is shaped by invisible defaults rather than by your actual situation.
By the end of the programme, you will have developed a personal practice of AI-assisted management thinking, built several working system messages configured for your specific business context, and — most importantly — developed the judgment to know when AI adds value to your thinking and when it gets in the way. That judgment cannot be taught in a lecture. It develops through practice, through noticing when the AI’s contribution sharpens your thinking and when it dilutes it, through learning to direct the conversation rather than follow wherever the AI leads. The programme provides the structured practice. The capability belongs to you.
Course Themes
Course Available in the Learning Hub March 20, 2026
THEME
1
Strategy
Why Think With AI and Where it Fits
THEME
2
Planning
Designing your first System Messages
THEME
3
Follow-up
AI in Daily Management Routines
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4
Results Analysis
Testing what AI Produces
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5
Discovery
AI for Problem Exposure and Strategic Exploration
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6
Capability Development
Building ongoing Practice