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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundational Skills for All Participants
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond chatbots: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the role of human review
      • Aligning capabilities with responses from the departmental questionnaire
      • Practical Session: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks in their role.
    • Effective Prompting Techniques in Practice
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Iterative refinement strategies versus restarting prompts
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Practical Session: Collaborate with Claude to draft a response to a typical business email from the participant's inbox.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Establishing one project per department, integrating price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming conventions and maintenance
      • Team collaboration, sharing, and permission management
      • Practical Session: Create a departmental project containing three real documents and pose five test questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automation
      • Integration with Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies rather than enabling automatic sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team-level skills
      • Practical Session: Have Claude categorise three pending emails from the inbox and review the generated reply drafts.
    • Outcome: All participants demonstrate confidence in using Claude, and each team has established a department-specific project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Specialised Session for Administration, Finance, and Legal Teams
    • Contracts and Document Management
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates, noting that this does not replace professional legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Practical Session: Compare a contract draft with its previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts Processing
      • Accurate data extraction from invoices and receipts
      • Reconciling invoices against purchase orders and terms
      • Documenting discrepancies for approval workflows
      • Practical Session: Convert five receipts into a table and highlight any deviations from the original order.
    • Financial Figures, Summaries, and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel-based analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation methods and recalculating where necessary
      • Practical Session: Create a due-date summary with brief annotations from a list of open items.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring workflows
      • Creating skills for standardised workflows
      • Defining control and validation steps
      • Practical Session: Develop a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each possess one workflow accelerated by Claude, supported by a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Specialised Session for Purchasing, Warehouse, and Customer Service Teams
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and pricing inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality standards
      • Generating calculations as Excel files with embedded formulas
      • Practical Session: Respond to a real inquiry using catalog and price list data, then verify the calculations.
    • Warehouse Operations, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying and tracing recurring inventory errors
      • Practical Session: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring consistent tone and technical terminology through the departmental project
      • Preparing conversation notes and phone call briefs
      • Practical Session: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Strategic Next Steps
      • Prioritising collected ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for team-wide implementation
      • Assigning responsibilities for subsequent actions
      • Practical Session: Collaboratively create a prioritised use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department identifies at least one concrete workflow with improved efficiency, and the team understands the next steps towards automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise tier recommended), a laptop, a completed departmental questionnaire in advance (covering three key processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymised sample documents for each department.
  • No programming proficiency is required.

Target Audience

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

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