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title: "Teaching AI is like teaching someone to drive: a plan by levels"
slug: plan-capacitacion-por-niveles
lang: en
situation: liderar
format: plantilla
minutes: 15
video: 22
updated: 2026-10-19
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# Teaching AI is like teaching someone to drive: a plan by levels

> For HR, learning teams and leads who are about to design (or pay for) AI training and want someone to work differently on Monday.

## When to use it

- You already paid for an AI course, everyone finished it and nobody changed how they work.
- You were asked to "train the team on AI" and the first proposal that arrived is a course catalog.
- You have one or two people who already use AI well and do not know how to put them to use.

## The sheet

Nobody learns to drive with the keys and a manual. You learn with someone beside you, in a real car, in stages. The same applies here.

| Level | Driving | Company: who | Practice on a real task | Pass criterion | Who accompanies | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Parking lot | First laps in an empty lot | The whole team in the area | One task of their own from this week, done with AI and reviewed. [Write the task, not "learn the tool".] | Delivers the task with AI and explains what changed versus how they used to do it. | The co-pilot: someone on the team who already uses it well. | 2 weeks · 1 h a week |
| 2 · Street | Real traffic with a companion | Whoever passed level 1 | Three recurring tasks from their role, every week, with AI. [Illustrative: meeting summary, first draft of an email, spreadsheet check.] | Two of the three tasks are now done differently without anyone asking. | The co-pilot reviews one sample a week. | 4 weeks |
| 3 · Highway | Drives alone and teaches someone | Whoever passed level 2 and wants to accompany | Accompanies one new person through level 1. | The person they accompanied passes level 1. | The area lead, once a month. | Ongoing |

Rules of the road (first session, not the last one): which data can be pasted into AI and which cannot. If they do not exist, write them before level 1 starts.

What gets measured at the end: not how many finished, but which tasks are now done differently. List: ____________________

## How to fill it in 15 minutes

1. Name the co-pilot. Ask the team who already uses AI well; there is almost always someone, and it is almost never the boss.
2. Pick the level 1 task with each person. Their own work from this week, not examples from the internet.
3. Write the pass criterion as something you can see: a delivered task, not "understands the tool".
4. Set the time and a fixed hour in the week. Without a fixed hour, practice collapses at the first urgent request.
5. Add the rules of the road to the first session.
6. The most common mistake: measuring attendance. A finished course is the keys and the manual. Measure which tasks changed.

## The line that is almost always missing

The co-pilot. Companies buy the course, set the dates and forget the person on their own team who already uses it well. It is the piece missing most often and the cheapest: already on payroll and familiar with the real tasks. Companies that move forward learn from their own people.

## If this becomes a big decision

If the training is tied to a licence purchase that is hard to reverse and carries your name, the free tools at vicsol.org/decision-clarity/ help you structure it. They do not replace a formal review.

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Vic Sol · Decision Desk · vicsol.org/resources/ · Free to use with attribution.
This sheet structures a conversation; it is not legal, financial or audit advice.