Yes, you can hire an AI trainer for your company in Kenya, and your staff do not need a technical background first, because good trainers work with ordinary employees, from sales to operations, in plain language.
Before you sign anything, put five questions to each trainer, and listen closely to how the answers are built.
- Ask whether each session is designed around your industry and your team's real tasks, or whether it is a generic demonstration that could belong to any company in any sector.
- Ask whether you receive live teaching together with recorded modules that staff can revisit weeks later, because most of a live session fades within days.
- Ask whether staff will practise on your own documents and on the steps your team repeats every week, since practising on familiar work is what makes the skills stick.
- Ask about office hours after the live sessions end, which is when the honest questions tend to surface.
- Ask what the rules are on data privacy, meaning how your team uses AI tools without exposing company or customer information to the outside world.
How long should the training run? Plan for weeks rather than a single afternoon, because habits change slowly, and as a benchmark, our training engagements at EddyLabs last three to six weeks, customised by industry and team, with live sessions, recorded modules and follow up office hours, while individuals and smaller groups can join our AI Clarity Cohort instead.
One last filter before you commit: write down a single task you want done differently within a month of the training, and see whether the trainer can map their programme onto that task, because a trainer who can is worth the conversation.