--- title: "How to Train Staff to Direct, Check, and Correct AI" description: "Train staff on one real AI function with briefing, review, and correction exercises. 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Have them write its direction, check a deliberately flawed result, and carry a correction into a fresh run. Finish when another operator can repeat the work from the written instructions. A demonstration by the builder is a starting point. Your handoff test should put the keyboard with the employee who will handle the job. That person needs the source record, the review rules, and a way to stop the function. The plan below is a proposed training method. Its examples are fictional. It does not assume a particular model or promise a reduction in staffing or working hours. ## Choose one function for the lesson Start with a recurring internal draft, such as a weekly work summary. Define its reader and the decision it supports. Keep sending, publishing, and account changes outside this exercise. Write the current manual procedure first. Ask the employee to show the records they read and the judgments they make. Include the awkward cases, such as a missing date or two conflicting status notes. Sort those tasks into eliminate, automate, augment, or outsource. Remove an unnecessary report before designing training around it. If the task stays, decide which parts the function prepares and which decisions remain with a person. Use the [task and stopping-point guide](/articles/give-every-agent-a-job-sources-and-stopping-point) to bound the exercise. A trainee should be able to explain what the function produces and where it ends before starting a run. ## Give the trainee a complete practice packet Prepare a copy of the approved source material with sensitive details removed. Include the function's brief, an accepted example, the review checklist, and the correction procedure. Add access instructions for the practice environment. Identify the owner who can answer questions. State where practice outputs belong and how they will be distinguished from real work. Include a short glossary of business terms. Define words such as complete, approved, and overdue using the team's existing rules. Ask the trainee to find each definition in the record. NIST's voluntary AI Risk Management Framework connects personnel training to assigned responsibilities in GOVERN 2.2. [NIST AI RMF 1.0, January 2023, checked October 26, 2026](https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.100-1.pdf) This lesson applies that principle to one job. It is not a certification course or a claim of framework compliance. ## Exercise one: direct the function Ask the trainee to complete the task brief without running anything. For a fictional weekly summary, the direction might read: > Prepare an internal summary of accepted work completed during the stated reporting period. Use the approved work log and current exception list. Mark missing evidence. Save a draft for the operations lead. Stop before sending. The trainee should name the reporting period, allowed records, output location, and reviewer. Ask them to explain which record settles a conflict. Then remove a required input from the packet. The expected response is a clear stop that names the missing item. Do not reward an invented completion date because it makes the draft look finished. Have the trainee revise the brief after the exercise. Keep the approved revision in the business's files. The next operator should receive that revision rather than a verbal account of the lesson. ## Exercise two: check the result against the record Prepare a flawed sample yourself. Label it as training material. Insert errors that match the function's review duties, such as an unsupported completion claim or an item outside the reporting period. Ask the trainee to mark every factual statement with its source. Have them identify missing items as well as incorrect ones. Reading only the generated summary cannot establish whether an eligible item was omitted. Use separate review questions for content and authority. Does the summary match the accepted record? Is the intended reader correct? Does the function remain within its draft boundary? Record the trainee's findings before revealing your answer sheet. Discuss any disagreement by returning to the source. If the approved record cannot resolve it, revise the record or stop the case. Avoid grading the prose by resemblance to a sample. Different wording can preserve the same meaning. The test should focus on the business facts and decisions that matter. ## Exercise three: correct the system's working instructions Give the trainee a repeated error from the sample. Ask them to distinguish a one-time edit from a reusable correction. Suppose the sample calls an item complete when its status is submitted for review. The immediate draft needs an edit. The proposed reusable rule needs an owner and evidence that the status definition applies to this function. Have the trainee record the wrong behavior, accepted definition, source, scope, and expected result. Keep the entry proposed until the named owner accepts it. Use the [correction log template](/articles/ai-correction-log-template) for the record structure. During training, focus on the employee's ability to route the issue to the right person and controlling file. Start a fresh practice run from the revised record. Check the original case and a nearby case that should remain unchanged. Save both results with the lesson record. ## Teach the stop procedure as a normal action Create a practice case with conflicting current instructions. Ask the trainee to stop the run, preserve its output, and tell the owner what needs a decision. The message should identify the function, run, conflicting sources, and work already completed. It should explain whether anything reached an outside recipient. In this practice, that answer should be no. Next, rehearse a failed run. Ask the trainee where to find the error and whether a retry is allowed. Require a check for an existing output before repeating the job. Finally, rehearse the manual fallback. Have the employee prepare the work using the current procedure and source record. Document any missing access that prevents them from doing so. For more practice cases, use the [AI stopping-rules examples](/articles/ai-agent-stopping-rules-examples). Select cases that match this function rather than testing unrelated capabilities. ## Give review time an explicit place in the job Allocate time for checking and corrections in the work schedule. Treat those steps as part of producing the result. Ask the trainee to record which checks needed the most effort. Measure the whole practice cycle if you collect timing: briefing, generation, review, rework, and exception handling. Keep that measurement local to the task and sample. Do not turn a classroom run into a claim about future savings. A trainee who rejects a flawed output has completed useful work. Record the rejection and reason. Do not count every accepted draft as success or every stopped run as failure. ## Test handoff without help from the builder Ask a second employee to run the same function from the written packet. Let the first trainee observe without coaching. Record each question that requires an unwritten answer. The operator should locate the current sources, prepare the brief, review the output, and record the result. They should also demonstrate the missing-input stop and the correction route. Use a short handoff sheet with pass, needs revision, and blocked as possible results. Attach the actual practice outputs. A check mark without the reviewed work leaves the owner little to inspect. If the operator needs help, revise the packet and repeat the affected exercise. Keep the reason visible. Do not sign off because the builder can finish the task. ## Maintain training when the function changes Set a review trigger for changed sources, permissions, business definitions, or models. Identify which exercises must run again after each kind of change. Keep a named primary operator and a backup. Store the latest training packet beside the function's runbook. Include the date of the last observed practice and any open gaps. Scale With Search's [AI systems method](/ai-systems) includes training people to direct, check, and correct each working function. The 10/80/10 structure places direction before the automated middle and human review after it. Treat those numbers as a design frame, not measured working time. To scope a function with a training handoff, [send the job and current procedure](/work). 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