Customized professional training
AI training for project managers
Structure your projects, anticipate risks and transform your meetings into decisions and actions followed up, with Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or the tool validated by your CIO.
Starting from €1,500 excluding VAT per half-day · Written proposal within 24 working hours, without obligation.
The training in brief
Everything you need to make a decision, in nine lines. The objectives, process, and use cases are below.
- What it is
- A customized training in generative AI For project managers: a maximum of twelve participants, each working on their own computer, working on their own projects. No lectures or demonstrations: 70% hands-on practice.
- What we work on there
- Your projects and committees : framing and structuring, risk anticipation, transformation of meeting notes into decisions, responsibilities and deadlines, preparation of portfolio reviews.
- For who
- The project managers, PMOs and program managersAll levels, including employees who have never opened the tool.
- Duration and rhythm
- 1 hour 30 minutes or half a dayAvailable in one go or in waves of sessions to cover the entire team. Also available as a webinar.
- Where and in what language
- At your premises anywhere in France, or remotely. French or English.
- Price
- €1,500 to €2,000 excluding VAT Half-day sessions for up to twelve participants, with a sliding scale of prices when sessions are repeated. See our price benchmarks.
- On which tool
- Yours: Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral or your secure internal assistant. We train within your tenant, without third-party tools.
- Funding
- Eligible for OPCO and ESF+ funding. NextStart is a registered training organization (No. 11756140675): the session is part of your skills development plan, with the agreements and documents expected by your funder.
- Lead time
- First response and written proposal within 24 business hours, without obligation. The detailed plan will then be finalized during a 30-minute exchange with your project contact person; the session can take place one to two weeks after your agreement.
What generative AI changes for a project manager
It accelerates the framing, committee preparation, and reporting. Decision-making, coordination, and leadership responsibility remain yours: this is the framework that the training establishes.
Meetings that lead to actionable steps
Notes and transcripts structured by decisions, responsible parties, deadlines and open points, without adding any commitments not made during the session.
Risks identified before they cause problems
Assumptions, dependencies and weak signals scattered throughout the project documents, brought together to prepare for timely arbitration.
Reporting tailored to each recipient
The same progress point broken down for the team, the sponsor and the management, based on verifiable source data.
Faster framing, piloting that remains human
A need transformed into objectives, deliverables and milestones to be challenged with the team. The AI prepares options, the project manager decides.
They trained their teams in generative AI with NextStart
The same practical workshops, conducted on the tool and the professions of each organization.
"Examples rooted in our professions and the Airbus context"
"Very telling case studies"
"Practical training that can be reused in our daily activities"
How we prepare the session with your project contact person
The content, examples and tools are prepared with your subject matter expert before the session.
Feasibility study
Gathering of needs, participant level, constraints and priority use cases.
Customization
Adaptation of the schedule, demonstrations and exercises, then validation with your organization.
Training
Participatory facilitation, guided practical application and distribution of educational materials.
The program, hour by hour
A balance designed to understand, practice and then secure uses in the work environment.
Schedule for the half-day (3 hours 30 minutes)
- 0 p.m. to 00 p.m. Fundamentals of generative AI on the chosen tool, memory, personalized instructions, reasoning methods and in-depth research, applied to the framing of a reconstructed project
- 0 p.m. to 20 p.m. prompting, providing context and verifying sources, based on a steering committee report and a schedule excerpt
- 0 p.m. to 40 p.m. Prompts and Agents workshop on your situations, for example a scoping note, a risk and dependency mapping, or the transformation of meeting notes into decisions, responsibilities and deadlines
- 2 p.m. to 40 p.m. : construction of a monitoring agent (weekly progress update, alerts on discrepancies, preparation of a portfolio review), then testing on an anonymized project
- 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. : biases and limitations, confidentiality of schedules and budgets, GDPR, Article 4 of the AI Act and collective drafting of rules of use
The 1 hour 30 minute format follows the same tight structure: 20 minutes of fundamentals, 55 minutes of workshop on two chosen cases, 15 minutes of usage framework.
Project management situations that we can work on
The exercises are chosen with your mentor from these situations, according to your priorities.
Feasibility study
Refine the need and objectives · Draft a project charter · Define deliverables and success criteria · Map stakeholders
Planning
Break down the project into tasks · Create a reverse schedule · Identify dependencies · Prepare a RACI matrix
Risks and resources
Map the risks · Prepare mitigation plans · Analyze the workload and resources · Anticipate bottlenecks
Meetings
Prepare the agenda · Transform notes into minutes · Extract decisions, responsible parties, and deadlines · Prepare a steering committee
Tracking
Define project KPIs · Analyze deviations from the schedule · Produce a dashboard · Prepare a corrective action plan
Communication
Adapt reporting to stakeholders · Prepare an executive summary · Draft a reasoned alert · Build the closing document
Concrete examples of use cases for project managers
Nine free resources from our library, to see in concrete terms what your project managers will be able to produce.
Drafting a project scoping document →
Structure objectives, scope, milestones and risks, and list questions for the sponsor.
Building the project plan and critical path →
Establish dependencies, critical path and slack from a list of tasks.
Guardian of the project methodology →
Find the expected deliverable at each phase and verify a deliverable against its template.
Conducting the end-of-project feedback session →
Reconstruct the discrepancies and causes, then produce the feedback sheet and the closing presentation.
AI Co-pilot for Project Portfolios →
Summarize the status of the projects and prepare the points requiring arbitration.
Transforming notes into an action plan →
Moving from raw notes to actions, responsibilities, and deadlines.
Prepare a project portfolio review →
To orchestrate synthesis, alerts and preparation of a portfolio committee.
Resuming a struggling project →
Reconstruct the deviations, quantify three scenarios and prepare the sponsor's arbitration.
Risk and addiction monitoring →
Monitor project updates and report deviations before they become costly.
The project manager's AI toolkit: 24 use cases and their prompts
To get started before training, or to help your project teams continue to progress independently afterward: 24 everyday use cases, from scoping to portfolio management, with ready-to-copy prompts, categorized into three levels for step-by-step skills development. Written based on surveys from PMI, Capterra, and Wellingtone, and our workshops with project teams from large organizations.
- Level 1, getting started: minutes, agenda, flash report, first WBS, initial risks, emails
- Level 2, structuring: scoping document, reverse planning and RACI matrix, risk register, steering committee, closing report
- Level 3, systematize: permanent project assistant, pre-mortem, dashboard, portfolio co-pilot
- Self-assessment, five safety rules, six-week program, team ritual, and measurement of gains
Receive the kit
The download link will be sent to you by email.
Your data does not leave your environment
Schedules, budgets, steering committee reports: your project information does not leave your environment.
The exercises are based on your real-world situations, never on your actual data. We develop the practical cases with your business expert using anonymized or reconstructed examples, and we work within the environment approved by your IT department: Copilot Chat, Copilot M365, ChatGPT (Enterprise or Azure OpenAI), Gemini, Claude, Mistral, or a locally installed open-source solution for the most sensitive data. No documents, files, or personally identifiable information are transmitted to a public model during the session. The final part of the training is dedicated to GDPR, the AI Act, and the development of your internal usage rules, ensuring that each participant leaves with a clear understanding of what they can and cannot submit to an AI tool.
Copilot M365
Claude
ChatGPT
Gemini
VibeReferences and feedback
Some examples of interventions and feedback from NextStart.AI training courses.
Airbus470 participantsAirbus595 participantsCNES673 participantsAlptis450 participants31 AI ChampionsAgirc-Arrco650+ participantsBristol Myers Squibb237 participants10 AI Champions
Ceva Animal Health209 participants
SATT network173 participants
Cerema145 participants
Engie11 participants
AÉSIO mutual21 participants
Crédit Mutuel13 participantsFrequently asked questions about AI training for project managers
Answers to key questions about level, tools, personalization, and modalities.
Do you need to already know how to use ChatGPT or Copilot?
No. The content is adapted to the level of the participants, from discovery to more advanced methods.
Can the training use our internal tool?
Yes. The session can use the tool approved by your IT department, including Copilot, ChatGPT (Enterprise or Azure OpenAI), Gemini, Claude, Mistral or a local solution.
Can we work on our own use cases?
Yes. Priority situations are selected with your contact person, then transformed into suitable and safe exercises.
What is the difference between the 1 hour 30 minute format and the half-day format?
The shorter format focuses on familiarization and a few demonstrations. The half-day format allows for more hands-on practice with your specific use cases.
Can the training be funded?
Our training courses are eligible for OPCO and ESF+ funding. NextStart is a registered training organization: each session is subject to a training agreement and results in attendance sheets, certificates of completion and an invoice, the documents that a funding body requires.
Can we work on our project documents?
Yes, from anonymized or reconstructed versions and in an environment validated by your organization.
Can AI automatically update the schedule?
It can help prepare scenarios or identify impacts. Any modification must be checked and then validated in the management tool.
How much does the training cost?
Expect to pay €1,500 to €2,000 excluding VAT for a half-day session for up to twelve participants, with a discounted rate for consecutive sessions to cover the entire team. We will send you a detailed quote within 24 business hours. Details by format are available on our page. How much does AI training cost?.
How soon can a session be organized?
Allow one to two weeks between your agreement and the session, the time needed for framing with your project contact, personalization of exercises and validation of the schedule.
What deliverables do the participants receive?
A booklet of about fifty pages, the prompts and agents built during the workshop on your own cases, and the rules of use written collectively at the end of the session.
Let's build your customized project manager training program
Describe your situation in a few lines. We will get back to you within 24 business hours with a proposal tailored to your teams, tools, and schedule.
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