Delegate your work to Gemini.

Course Overview

1. Section 1

   Foundations: Gemini, safely and well

   What you will be able to do: Use Gemini safely with your organisation's information, write prompts that get specific, usable work first time, and know which part of Gemini each job belongs in.

   • Meet Gemini

     Where Gemini shows up in your work, why it sounds just as confident when it is wrong, and your first real back and forth on something from your own job.

   • Safety first

     Why your work account and your personal account are worlds apart, what Gemini can reach, where your data is kept, and the one habit that keeps confidential information out of the wrong place. You write your organisation's three-line rule.

   • Prompting with purpose

     The GCSE framework (Goal, Context, Source, Expectations) and the follow-up turns that take a generic first draft to work you would put your name on.

   • Which Gemini for which job

     The Gemini app, Gemini inside an app, Gemini Notebook, skills, Workspace Studio flows and schedules: what each is for, and a simple rule for choosing.

   • Case study: read the base pack

     Turn a long pack of trip notes and supplier agreements into a one-page brief, find where the documents disagree, and check the claims that would be most expensive to get wrong.

   2 quizzes

2. Section 2

   Real work: memory, brand, data, evidence

   What you will be able to do: Set up a Gemini notebook that knows your organisation, produce on-brand documents and honest images, analyse data you can check, research with sources you can defend, and capture expert know-how without asking anyone to write it down.

   • A notebook that knows your organisation

     Build a Gemini notebook from a small, curated set of documents about how your organisation works, so Gemini answers from them, shows where each answer came from, and stays current.

   • On-brand documents and honest images

     Use a brand reference and a styled starter template so documents come out looking like your organisation, write in New Zealand English, leave te reo Māori to people who know it, and keep made-up images honest.

   • Working with data

     Analyse spreadsheets in Sheets with the working shown, a firm rule on missing data, and a hand check of the figure that carries the most money.

   • Research and evidence

     Research with Deep Research and sources you can open, label every claim verified, inferred or unknown, and build a comparison you can come back to and refresh.

   • Capturing what is in someone's head

     Document an expert's process for about an hour of their time: watch them work on a call, with everyone's agreement before notes start, ask four questions at the decision points, and have them correct rather than write.

   3 quizzes

3. Section 3

   Agentic: flows, skills, guardrails

   What you will be able to do: Hand Gemini multi-step jobs that run across your work apps, redesign one of your own workflows, turn it into a reusable skill, limit what an agent can reach, and schedule work that is done before you start the day.

   • From chat to flow

     Build a Workspace Studio flow that runs a multi-step job across Gmail, Drive, Sheets and Chat when something happens, with the outcome, inputs, rules and a stopping point set before it starts.

   • Redesign one workflow

     Map one of your own recurring processes, decide which steps an agent owns and which stay with a person, and name the number you will move.

   • Make it repeatable: build a skill

     Turn your redesigned process into a skill that Gemini runs the same way every time, whoever is at the keyboard, in the open SKILL.md format.

   • Guardrails and agent security

     Prompt injection, too much reach and unattended action, and the two questions that keep an agent safe: what can it reach, and where must it stop and ask you.

   • Schedules and connected apps

     Set up a schedule in the Gemini app that does real work before you start the day, written to stand on its own and to read, never act.

   3 quizzes

4. Section 4

   Wrap up

   What you will be able to do: Leave with a four-week plan for putting what you built into daily use, your questions for your next team meeting, and your certificate.

   • Your first 30 days with Gemini

     A week-by-week plan to put your notebook, workflow, skill, flow and schedule into daily use, and how to take it wider across your organisation.

   • Your certificate and what's next

     How your certificate is earned, and where to go next with your organisation.

   1 quiz