Generative AI for Program Managers

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Are you a program or project professional keen to harness generative AI (GenAI) to enhance decision-making, optimize workflows, and improve stakeholder engagement? This Generative AI for Program Managers specialization gives you the expertise to leverage AI-powered transformation to improve operational efficiency, mitigate risk, and enhance strategic executionin just 3 weeks. During this program, you’ll explore the fundamentals of GenAI, its evolution, and its applications in program management. You’ll learn how to craft effective prompts that maximize AI-generated insights and integrate AI seamlessly into key program phases. You’ll explore how GenAI enhances stakeholder communication, risk assessment, and decision-making, ensuring that you can use AI to drive strategic program outcomes. Plus, you’ll look at ethical considerations and gain insights into responsible AI adoption, transparency, and governance in program management. Additionally, through hands-on labs using AI-powered tools, you’ll gain the practical skills you need to implement AI-driven strategies effectively. Enroll today and gain in-demand GenAI skills to boost your program management career in just 3 weeks.

Syllabus

Course 1: Generative AI: Introduction and Applications
Course 2: Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
Course 3: Generative AI: A Game Changer for Program Managers

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9 hours 16 minutes
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As generative AI (GenAI) reshapes workplaces and job roles, using it effectively is now essential. Prompt engineering is the key to directing GenAI models and refining their output for desired results. This course is for professionals, executives, students, and AI enthusiasts ready to harness prompt engineering to unlock tools like ChatGPT. You’ll learn practical techniques, structured methods, and best practices for crafting strong prompts. Explore zero-shot and few-shot prompting to boost reliability and output quality. Discover advanced methods such as the Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought to produce accurate, context-aware responses. Hands-on labs and projects provide experience with multimodal prompting, the playoff method, and image generation. You’ll practice blending text and visuals and evaluating AI outputs for precision and usefulness. Podcasts, dialogues, and discussions link theory to real-world scenarios, while expert insights highlight strategies for effective prompt use. A final project and graded assessments ensure you can apply these techniques with confidence, leaving you with practical, job-ready skills. Hear from practitioners about the techniques and artistry behind writing impactful prompts. Enroll today to master prompt engineering and unlock GenAI’s potential.
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8 hours 6 minutes
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This course is designed for everyone—professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts—interested in learning about generative AI and leveraging its capabilities in their work and lives. It is your first step toward understanding the power of generative AI, driven by models such as large language models (LLMs). In this course, you will learn the fundamentals and evolution of generative AI, with additional readings and expert insights offering a deeper view of its history and advancements. You will explore its capabilities across text, image, audio, video, virtual worlds, code, and data, with key takeaways and enhanced summaries at the end of each section to reinforce learning. You will understand the applications of generative AI in industries such as IT, finance, healthcare, education, entertainment, and human resources. You will also discover the features of popular tools and models, including GPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Synthesia. Hands-on labs provide opportunities to practice using IBM Generative AI Classroom and tools such as ChatGPT. You will also hear from industry practitioners sharing real-world insights. Interactive activities, podcasts, and scenario-based exercises help you apply concepts, while a final practical project consolidates your skills by generating and refining outputs across multiple formats.
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8 hours 51 minutes
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Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming program management, enabling program managers to make smarter decisions, reduce risks, and drive strategic value more effectively. Professionals with job-ready GenAI skills now instantly stand out to recruiters! In this course, you’ll explore how GenAI can transform program management tasks, plus how it aligns with latest edition of PMI’s Standard for Program Management. You’ll learn how AI can help you negotiate the program lifecycle across three key phases. For the Program Definition phase, you’ll learn how AI enhances stakeholder analysis, business case validation, and benefits identification. In the Program Delivery phase, you’ll see how AI-driven governance, risk management, and real-time insights optimize execution. Then in the Program Closure phase, you’ll learn how AI facilitates lessons learned analysis, impact assessments, and knowledge transfer. Additionally, you’ll explore ethical AI implementation, risk mitigation strategies, and responsible AI governance in program management. In this course, you’ll get hands-on experience with GenAI tools to create key deliverables essential for program success. In the final project, you’ll leverage GenAI to create artifacts required to complete each phase of the program lifecycle. If you’re keen to seamlessly integrate GenAI into your program management practices, drive efficiency, and ensure long-term program success, enroll today!