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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundational Skills for All
    • Understanding Claude's Current Capabilities
      • Going beyond chatbots: An overview of chats, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the importance of human oversight
      • Aligning capabilities with insights from the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Identify the two most time-consuming tasks in your daily routine.
    • Practical Prompting Techniques
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Iteratively refining prompts rather than starting from scratch
      • Creating reusable templates for frequent tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email from your mailbox with Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up one project per department, incorporating price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Effective file naming conventions and maintaining up-to-date information
      • Managing team sharing and permissions
      • Exercise: Build a departmental project using three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automation
      • Linking Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts rather than auto-sending emails
      • Introducing Cowork and skills for team collaboration
      • Exercise: Have Claude categorize three open emails and review the drafted replies.
    • Outcome: Participants will use Claude confidently, and each team will have a departmental project populated with real documents.
  • Day 2: Specialized Session for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contract agreements from templates while maintaining legal compliance
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with a previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Clean data extraction from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms
      • Preparing discrepancy lists for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and flag any deviations from the order.
    • Financial Analysis and Liquidity
      • Interpreting and preparing Excel analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation methods and recalculating as needed
      • Exercise: Create a due-date overview with brief comments based on an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly repeating processes
      • Developing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining validation steps
      • Exercise: Create a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams will each have one faster workflow with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Specialized Session for Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and pricing inquiries using stored data
      • Drafting quotes and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Generating Excel files with formulas for calculations
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using catalog and price list data and verify the calculations.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipts from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying recurring inventory errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring consistent tone and technical terminology via departmental projects
      • Preparing conversation notes and call scripts
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Future Steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Exploring Cowork and skills for broader team adoption
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Collaboratively create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department will have at least one concrete accelerated workflow, and the team will be ready for the next steps in automation.

Requirements

  • Participants need a Claude account (Team or Enterprise tiers recommended), a laptop, a pre-completed departmental questionnaire outlining key processes, current tools, and upcoming changes, plus anonymized sample documents relevant to their department.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Target Audience

  • Teams from administration, accounting, legal, procurement, warehousing, and customer service within mid-sized companies, regardless of experience level.

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