KCTCS Workforce Solutions

Bring AI and leadership training to your team.

I teach AI and Leadership as an adjunct professor with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, in the Workforce Solutions division. Organizations across central Kentucky can request that same training for their own people.

Hold it at a KCTCS facility, or I will come to you and run it on-site. Either way it gets built around the work your team is actually doing.

Delivered Through KCTCS Workforce Solutions
Where A KCTCS facility or your site
Region Central Kentucky

Your people are already using AI. Nobody taught them how.

Somebody on your team pasted a customer email into a chatbot last week. Somebody else has quietly automated a piece of their job and has not mentioned it to anyone. Somebody senior is avoiding the whole subject and hoping it passes. That is the normal state of most organizations right now, and a policy memo does not touch any of it.

What changes behaviour is showing people what good use looks like, on their own work, with their own examples in the room. The leadership side works the same way. A manager who has never been taught how to run a hard conversation will avoid it for years, and the cost turns up everywhere except the line item that would explain it.

Both of those are teachable in a room, with the right facilitation. That is what this is.

Take one, or take both.

The agenda gets built with you before anything is scheduled, because a room of frontline supervisors and a room of directors need different sessions. These are the starting points.

Track One

AI at work

For people who are not engineers and have no intention of becoming them. Hands on keyboards, working your team's real tasks instead of tidy examples that only work in a demo.

  • What these tools are genuinely good at, and where they will hand you something wrong with total confidence
  • How to ask for work in a way that gets a usable answer the first time
  • Checking the output when you are not the expert on the subject
  • What should never go into a chat window, and why that rule keeps getting broken
  • Building one small thing that removes a task somebody on the team dreads
Track Two

Leadership

Twenty years of coaching leaders through transformations, cut down to the parts that hold up under pressure. Maxwell Leadership certified, and scenario-based rather than lecture-based.

  • The conversations your managers are avoiding, and how to run them
  • Decisions: who owns them, and how they actually get made here
  • Conflict that surfaces early instead of arriving later as attrition
  • Accountability that survives contact with a busy week
  • Named next steps before anyone leaves the room

Format

A single session or a short series, sized to how long your team can be away from the floor.

Location

A KCTCS facility if you would rather your people leave the building, or your own site if you would rather they did not.

Who it is for

Frontline supervisors through senior leadership. The room gets built for one of those, not all of them at once.

Two ways in.

Both end up in the same place. Take whichever fits how your organization buys.

Path One

Schedule it through KCTCS

If your organization already works with KCTCS, or you would rather the training be arranged and invoiced through the college system, Gary Robinson is the person who sets it up. Tell him you want AI or leadership training with Zac Parker.

Gary Robinson
Point of contact, KCTCS Workforce Solutions
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Path Two

Straight to me

Email me what your team does, roughly how many people, and what you want them to be able to do afterwards. I will tell you honestly whether this is the right thing for them, and what it would look like if it is.

Email Zac directly

Before you ask.

No. A KCTCS facility is available if you want your team out of their usual building, which does help people focus. If it is easier to keep them on site, I will travel to you and run it there.

That is the intention. We talk before anything gets scheduled so the examples in the room are your examples. Generic training is why most people have low expectations of training.

None at all. It is built for people whose job has nothing to do with software. The ones who tend to get the most out of it are the people who have been quietly avoiding these tools.

Ask anyway. The KCTCS arrangement is built around central Kentucky, but I work with organizations elsewhere too, so it is worth a conversation.

The Executive Leadership Experience is one facilitated session for an intact leadership team, booked by the seat. This is workforce training for a group of your people, arranged through the college system. Different audience, different way of buying it.