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Hands-On AI Training

Hands-on AI training is training in which every participant actively builds and uses AI tools during the session — as distinct from lecture-format training where participants observe demos and take notes. The research on behavior change is consistent: doing produces more durable change than watching. Hands-on AI training produces adoption outcomes that lecture-format training does not, because participants leave with something they built themselves, for their specific role, that they can use immediately.

The investment in making training hands-on is small compared to the improvement in adoption outcomes.