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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundations for all participants
    • Current capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond chatbots: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limits, common errors, and the role of human review
      • Connecting findings to answers from the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks in their role.
    • Effective prompting in practice
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Refining outputs iteratively rather than restarting entirely
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Collaborate with Claude to draft a response to a typical business email from your mailbox.
    • Projects and custom knowledge bases
      • Setting up one project per department, incorporating price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintenance
      • Team sharing and permission management
      • Exercise: Create a departmental project with three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and initial automations
      • Integrating Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts instead of automated sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three open emails and review the generated reply drafts.
    • Outcome: All participants work confidently with Claude, and each team has its own department project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Departmental focus for administration, finance, and legal
    • Contract and document management
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates (as a supplement, not a replacement, for legal advice)
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with a previous version and generate a list of changes.
    • Invoices and receipts
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against purchase orders and terms
      • Compiling deviations for approval
      • Exercise: Transfer five receipts into a table and mark any deviations from the order.
    • Financial figures, overviews, and liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Creating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating
      • Exercise: Generate an overview sorted by due date with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring administrative workflows
      • Identifying workflows that repeat weekly
      • Writing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining control steps
      • Exercise: Build a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each have one workflow that runs faster with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Departmental focus for purchasing, warehouse, and customer service
    • Inquiries and quotations
      • Answering catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Preparing calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using catalog and price list data and verify the calculation.
    • Warehouse, goods receipt, and stock management
      • Recording goods receipts from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying recurring sources of error in stock records
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Multilingual customer communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology through the departmental project
      • Preparing conversation notes and call briefings
      • Exercise: Answer a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use case matrix and next steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Outlook on Cowork and skills for the entire team
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments collectively.
    • Outcome: Each department has at least one concrete workflow that runs faster from now on, and the team knows the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise tier recommended), a laptop, a completed departmental questionnaire (detailing the three most critical processes, current tools, and upcoming changes), and anonymized sample documents relevant to each department.
  • No programming experience is required.

Target Audience

  • Professionals in administration, accounting, legal, purchasing, warehouse, and customer service within mid-sized organizations, ranging from beginners to advanced users.

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