AI in management
Understanding and experiencing AI: ChatGPT & Co. as tools for modern leadership
Contents
Introduction to AI
- History and Trends in AI: The Development and Current Issues in AI.
- AI in companies: What do we already find today?
- Opportunities and risks of AI.
Introduction to Large Language Models and ChatGPT
- Effective prompting: An introduction to the basics of good prompts.
- Selected AI Tools and Their Strengths.
Areas of application of ChatGPT in management work: demonstration and interactive examples
- Job advertisements: Conception of appealing and target group-oriented job advertisements.
- Job interviews: development of questionnaires and evaluation criteria.
- Presenting and communicating information in a way that is tailored to the target audience.
- Developing persuasion strategies tailored to specific target audiences.
- Set up daily AI briefings.
- Create your own AI specialist or AI sparring partner.
- Prepare for and conduct employee reviews, and reflect on your own communication skills during these reviews.
- Decision-making: Use of ChatGPT for information gathering and solution development.
- Crisis management: Development of clear communication strategies for times of crisis.
- Personal Development with AI: Reflecting on Yourself with AI.
Images & Graphics
- Generate ideas for visual language.
- Create images and graphics for presentations and other purposes.
Mindset and Leadership
- The Impact of AI on Modern Leadership.
- AI as a Colleague: The Impact of AI on Teamwork.
- Developing a constructive mindset and dealing with resistance and fears.
- Clarify and ensure proper use and set limits within the corporate context.
Practice-oriented application strategies for your own management situation
- Development of our own use cases and application testing.
- Reflection on the possibilities and limitations of one's own use cases.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
With this training ...
- you can make your communication as a manager more precise and effective with the support of AI.
- you will learn how to improve decision-making processes with sound data and information.
- you develop creative and innovative solutions for everyday management and leadership challenges.
- you will learn more about innovative application concepts for ChatGPT & Co. for leadership work and reach your goal faster in strategically important leadership situations.
- you strengthen your leadership skills through personalized and empathetic approaches.
- you will gain an overview of the dangers and legal limits of use in a business context.
- you know how to establish a successful mindset for the use of AI in your area of responsibility.
- you are aware of reservations and resistance to the integration of AI and find constructive ways to use it safely and confidently.
Methods
Please note:
This training is designed to be interactive and is geared towards specific use cases from your day-to-day management work. It consists of trainer input, live demos, concrete exercises and best-practice examples. ChatGPT and other AI models are actively used, tested and applied to your use cases.
You will need your own W-LAN-enabled laptop to take part.
Most of the exercises take place directly in ChatGPT in your browser. No additional software is required; you only need to sign up for ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude to complete the hands-on portion. To get the most out of the training , we recommend training one-month paid ChatGPT Plus membership (cost: approx. 20 €) or access to an AI such as Copilot or Claude (preferably a paid subscription) for the duration of training event. You are solely responsible for your practical work using your ChatGPT account. The Haufe Akademie no contractual relationship with the provider; all participants must, for example, agree to the terms of use on their own.
Tools
Recommended for
Executives and operational managers who have no or initial prompting experience with ChatGPT and want to successfully integrate new forms of AI into their management work and collaboration in their area of responsibility.
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- Customized training courses
- Direct application in practice
- Efficient use of time and resources
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Start dates and details

Thursday, 10.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 11.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 22.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 23.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 16.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 17.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 26.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 27.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 21.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 22.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 18.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 19.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, April 29, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, April 30, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, June 17, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, June 18, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, September 9, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, September 10, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.