Louisiana Helped Pay for This AI Training

The state may help pay to train your team on AI.

HiTech engaged Elite Training for assistance in tapping Louisiana’s Incumbent Worker Training Program — IWTP — to fund this AI training. State workforce-development dollars, set aside to build a stronger, more skilled workforce, put to work on Copilot.

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Sit with that for a second. The same program that has long funded safety certs, leadership courses, and skilled trades can fund your people learning to actually use AI.

Upskilling is exactly what these dollars exist for. AI is upskilling. They fit together better than almost anyone realizes.

Too many business owners leave this money sitting on the table — and here’s the kicker: it’s your money. IWTP is funded by a small social charge folded into the unemployment-insurance taxes Louisiana employers already pay the state every quarter. Pay into that system for three years, and you’ve effectively been pre-funding your own team’s training. IWTP just lets you draw it back down.

Even if you work outside Louisiana, your state likely has a similar program.

Thank you, Elite Training, and especially its CEO, Erin Lasyone, for turning IWTP dollars into real skills for a superstar team. And credit to HiTech for knowing to ask.

Field Notes from a Real AI Rollout — Part 7. What actually happened training a 7-person leadership team on Copilot. #hiTechAIRolloutFieldNotes

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