Customized professional training
AI training for consultants
Accelerate your analyses, structure your recommendations and produce more compelling consulting deliverables with AI.
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 consultants: 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 tasks and deliverables : sourced market research, structuring of analyses and recommendations, capitalizing on past missions, monitoring of client account news.
- For who
- The consultants and consulting teams, in the office as well as in internal management. All levels, including those 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
- Written proposal within 24 business hours, without obligation, after a 30-minute framing exchange.
Why train consultants in generative AI?
Consultants must accelerate their analyses and deliverables without reducing the quality of reasoning, the traceability of sources, or the confidentiality of assignments.
Extensive documentary analyses
Studies, interviews and client documents must be structured quickly without losing the nuances useful for diagnosis.
Recommendations to be challenged
AI can generate hypotheses and objections, but the consultant must verify their relevance and build their own reasoning.
Demanding deliverables to produce
Notes, presentations and summaries must be tailored to the decision-maker while remaining consistent with the findings of the mission.
Confidential customer information
Mission documents can only be used in an approved environment and according to explicit rules.
What your consulting teams will be able to do upon exit
Six objectives, assessed during the session on the files that your teams bring.
- Drafting a scoping document, interview report, or executive summary using an AI tool, then verifying the findings and sources before submitting to the client
- Structure the analysis of a corpus of mission data (interviews, client documents, sector studies) and draw three well-reasoned and sourced conclusions.
- Construct a competitive benchmark or a documented market study, keeping track of each source used.
- Adapting the same deliverable to three levels of reading: client project manager, department director, management committee
- Recognize fabricated sources, circular reasoning, and unsubstantiated claims on a mission topic within an AI production.
- Apply your internal usage rules, the GDPR, and Section 4 of the AI Act to your own records
How we prepare the session with your advisor
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.
How generative AI is transforming the consulting profession
AI accelerates research, analysis, and deliverable production. It allows consultants to test more hypotheses and dedicate more time to framing, judgment, and the quality of recommendations.
Accelerate research and collection
AI helps to structure an investigation, explore sources and prepare an initial map of a subject before further investigation.
Analyze and challenge the hypotheses
It can compare information, identify contradictions and suggest alternative angles to test before building a recommendation.
Produce deliverables faster
Notes, summaries, presentations and action plans can be structured from a corpus and adapted to different levels of decision-making.
Maintaining confidentiality and the requirement for proof
Customer data, sources and reasoning must remain traceable, verifiable and processed in authorized environments.
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, hands-on experience with the tool chosen by your firm, report writing, personalized instructions and conversation management, illustrated in an anonymized project file
- 0 p.m. to 20 p.m. prompting, providing context, reasoning methods and in-depth research, then verifying sources on a chosen sector-specific topic with your consultant
- 0 p.m. to 40 p.m. Prompts and Agents workshop on cases presented by your consultants, analysis of a corpus of interviews, competitive benchmarking and executive summary report
- 2 p.m. to 40 p.m. : building an agent reusable by the team, capitalizing on mission deliverables or monitoring client accounts, and adapting the same deliverable to several decision levels
- 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. : biases and limitations, confidentiality of customer data and confidentiality agreements, GDPR, Article 4 of the AI Act, then collective drafting of your internal 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.
Mission situations that we can work on
The exercises are selected according to your priorities. The groupings below retain the details of the situations that can be worked on.
Mission framework
- Rephrase the request and clarify the objectives
- Prepare for interviews with stakeholders
- Develop an interview guide and an analysis grid
- Identify the assumptions and missing information
Diagnosis and analysis
- Analyze large documents
- Compare several scenarios or options
- To uncover the root causes of a problem
- Produce a SWOT, PESTEL or strengths-weaknesses analysis
Research and benchmarking
- Prepare a targeted sectoral research
- Conduct a competitive benchmark
- To synthesize market trends
- Identify inspiring practices
Recommendations
- Turning findings into recommendations
- Prioritize actions based on their impact and feasibility.
- Challenging a recommendation in devil's advocate mode
- Building a roadmap and its quick wins
Customer deliverables
- Write a summary report for the executive
- Structuring a mission report
- Transforming a document into a presentation
- Prepare the key messages for a feedback session
Mission management
- Prepare meetings and minutes
- Monitor risks and decisions
- Organize the work plan
- Adapt communication to different stakeholders
Concrete examples of use cases for consultants
Operational resources to extend training on research, analysis and the production of deliverables.
Drafting a project scoping document →
Structure objectives, scope, milestones and risks, and list questions for the sponsor.
Monitoring of consultant's client accounts →
Keeping up with your clients' news and identifying opportunities to intervene.
Capitalizing on past missions →
Transform mission deliverables into reusable and recoverable material.
Conduct a sourced market research study →
Structure the investigation, collect sources and produce a documented synthesis.
Transforming a complex case into an executive presentation →
Moving from a thick body of text to a short and defensible message before a committee.
Create a presentation from source documents →
Moving from a set of documents to a well-reasoned slide plan.
Coach for preparing for important meetings →
Anticipate objections, difficult questions and angles to cover before a key meeting.
Build an updatable competitive benchmark →
Produce a sourced matrix and a note on the movements at each update.
Taking over an inherited file →
Reconstruct the chronology, actors and commitments before embarking on the mission.
Drafting the executive summary of a proposal →
Write the page that the client will actually read, and the decision they are asking for.
Your data does not leave your environment
Customer deliverables, audit data, files covered by a confidentiality agreement: your 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.
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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.
Can we work on a real-life mission case?
Yes, based on an anonymized or reconstructed case and in the environment validated by your firm or your client.
Is there a risk that AI will standardize recommendations?
The training teaches how to use AI to challenge and enrich an analysis, without delegating the diagnosis or the final recommendation to it.
How much does the training cost?
The price depends on the chosen format, the number of participants, and the number of sessions. We will send you a quote within 24 business hours of our initial discussion. Price ranges for standard formats can be found on the Corporate AI Training page.
How soon can a session be organized?
Allow one to two weeks between your agreement and the session, the time for framing with your advisor, personalizing the exercises and validating 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 consulting 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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