TIER 2 • APPLICATION

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The full curriculum for Tier 2 of our Writing with AI program — a seven-hour instructor-led course for professionals producing and reviewing documents that matter.

WHAT'S IN THE OUTLINE

✓ All 9 modules with format options and pricing

✓ What makes this course different from generic AI prompting tutorials

✓ Details about the included instructor feedback

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Harness Critical Thinking and AI

Create documents with the efficiency of AI, harnessed with the discernment of human-centric thinking.

Applied to emails and reports

Practice constructing and evaluating with AI the two most typical and important business documents.

Individual feedback included

Instructor feedback throughout course exercises, and individual instructor feedback after the course.

Course at a glance

A quick look at the essential details of Tier 2: AI Writing for Business Documents


Format	Virtual instructor-led training with breakout exercises Group delivery only — no self-paced option
Length	7 hours, typically delivered as two half-day sessions
Audience	Managers, senior analysts, and experienced professionals producing and reviewing high-quality business documents
Group cap	Up to 18 participants per cohort
Investment	Starting at $11,625 per group Volume pricing available
Includes	Live instructor-led training plus individual written feedback on each participant's document
Outcome	Critical thinking, control, and elevated quality across AI-assisted writing

For team rollouts

Whether you're enrolling a single team or rolling this out across your organization, here's what makes our program easy to launch, manage, and keep consistent over time.

Easy to launch, easy to manage, made to scale

One enrollment link, completion tracking dashboard, and a shared 6-Step process and vocabulary across the team.

ORIENTATION

Welcome and Course Orientation

~20 minutes

Where Tier 2 fits in your AI writing skill stack. The critical thinking gap and what AI cannot do for you. Setting the standard for executive-ready documents.

Lessons and resources

How the course will run and what you will produce by the end
Why critical thinking is the skill most AI training ignores
What 'executive-ready' means for your context

FOUNDATION

The 6-Step Process and AI Guardrails

~30 minutes

A focused recalibration on the 6-Step Optimal Business Writing Process and the non-negotiable AI guardrails. For Tier 1 graduates, this is a reset. For others, it is the framework everything else builds on.

What you'll learn

How the 6-Step Process applies to AI-assisted writing
The information, hallucination, and brand-voice guardrails every AI user needs
How critical thinking shapes every step of the process

CRITICAL THINKING

The Missing Skill in AI Writing

~45 minutes

The 'so what' test, why AI defaults to generic analysis, and how to prompt and review for sharper thinking.

What you'll learn

How to apply the 'so what' test to any business document
Why AI flattens analysis and how to prevent it
Prompts and review questions that force sharper AI output

APPLIED

Constructing and Evaluating Emails with AI

~75 minutes

Apply the process and critical thinking to high-stakes business email: sensitive, persuasive, data-bearing, and multi-audience.

What you'll learn

The patterns of high-stakes business email AI tends to mishandle
How to construct email content with AI without losing nuance, judgment, or relationship intelligence
How to evaluate an AI-generated email for clarity, tone, 'so what,' and risk

RISK CONTROL

Detecting Hallucinations, Content Gaps, and Misinterpretation

~45 minutes

Where AI gets things wrong, how to tell the difference between fabricated, misinterpreted, and missing content, and a repeatable verification protocol.

What you'll learn

Where AI hallucinates most often and why
How to distinguish fabricated, misinterpreted, and missing content
A repeatable verification protocol for any AI-assisted document

APPLIED

Constructing and Evaluating Reports with AI

~120 minutes

The longest applied module. Reports demand critical thinking and structure across many sections, and AI's weaknesses show up most in long-form writing.

What you'll learn

The architecture of an executive-ready report: purpose, structure, evidence, recommendation
How to generate, categorize, and sequence report content with AI
How to draft and refine reports with AI without flattening the analysis
How to evaluate AI-generated report drafts against a 6-Step Assessment standard

EXECUTIVE LENS

'So What' Thinking and Executive-Ready Communication

~45 minutes

Turning AI's 'what happened' into your 'what matters.' Sharpening recommendations and calls to action.

What you'll learn

What executives actually read for
How to turn AI's surface output into clear recommendations
How to write an executive summary that earns the reader's attention

POLISH

Clarity, Voice, and Tone in AI-Assisted Writing

~45 minutes

AI consistently produces bloated, hedged, generic prose. This module gives participants the techniques to fix it, plus reusable prompts that get AI to do most of the editing heavy lifting on the first pass.

What you'll learn

How to prompt AI to do most of the clarity editing well, the first time
How to hone clarity at the sentence and paragraph level
Active vs. passive voice and when passive is sometimes the right call
How to spot and fix expletive constructions, jargon, and bloat with AI
How to match voice and tone to the reader and the purpose
Where AI's clarity editing falls short, and the checks you should make yourself

Wrap Up, Action Plan, and Post-Course Feedback

~15 minutes

Each participant will draft or revise a document using the course methodology within 30 days of training and receive individual instructor feedback.

What you'll learn

How to identify a post-course document worth investing in
How to submit your document for individual instructor feedback

Three tiers. One integrated program.

Tier 1

AI Business Writing Foundations

Process and guardrails for safe, efficient AI writing.

For individuals or groups

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Tier 2

AI Writing for Business Documents

Construct and deconstruct documents using AI with instructor feedback

Instructor-led for groups

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Tier 3

Compliance & High-Stakes Documents

Apply AI safely to your organization’s most important documents

Instructor-led for groups

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Companies that trust Instructional Solutions

Grace was outstanding. She kept the sessions practical and directly tied to our work. The biggest value was applying the AI techniques in the exercises. We left with tools and a process we can use right away to produce clearer, more concise business writing as a team.

Analyst

Transunion

Working through the document examples in this course made an immediate difference. I’m now structuring content more effectively, thinking more clearly about what matters, and using AI to sharpen my message. The process has made my writing faster, more focused, and far less frustrating.

Engineer

Lansing Board of Water & Light

Download the Outline: AI Writing for Business Documents

The full curriculum for Tier 2 of our Writing with AI program — a 7-hour instructor-led course that builds the critical thinking behind AI-assisted writing, for managers and senior analysts producing emails and reports that matter.

Get the outline

TIER 2 • APPLICATION

Download the Outline: AI Writing for Business Documents

WHAT'S IN THE OUTLINE

Get the course outline

Harness Critical Thinking and AI

Applied to emails and reports

Individual feedback included

Course at a glance

For team rollouts

Easy to launch, easy to manage, made to scale

Full course curriculum — from planning to applied document work

Welcome and Course Orientation

Lessons and resources

The 6-Step Process and AI Guardrails

What you'll learn

The Missing Skill in AI Writing

What you'll learn

Constructing and Evaluating Emails with AI

What you'll learn

Ready to sharpen how your team writes with AI?

Detecting Hallucinations, Content Gaps, and Misinterpretation

What you'll learn

Constructing and Evaluating Reports with AI

What you'll learn

'So What' Thinking and Executive-Ready Communication

What you'll learn

Clarity, Voice, and Tone in AI-Assisted Writing

What you'll learn

Wrap Up, Action Plan, and Post-Course Feedback

What you'll learn

Three tiers. One integrated program.

AI Business Writing Foundations

AI Writing for Business Documents

Compliance & High-Stakes Documents

Companies that trust Instructional Solutions

Analyst

Engineer

Download the Outline: AI Writing for Business Documents