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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundational Concepts for All Participants
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the chatbot: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the importance of human review
      • Aligning capabilities with responses from the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks in their role.
    • Practical Prompting Techniques
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Refining results iteratively rather than restarting from scratch
      • Creating templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Collaborate with Claude to draft a response to a typical business email from your own inbox.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Establishing one project per department, incorporating price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Implementing logical file naming conventions and maintaining up-to-date documentation
      • Managing team sharing and permissions
      • Exercise: Build a departmental project using three real documents and pose five test questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integrating Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies instead of enabling automatic sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team-oriented skills
      • Exercise: Instruct Claude to categorize three open emails from your inbox and review the drafted replies.
    • Outcome: All participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team establishes a department-specific project using real documents.
  • Day 2: Departmental Focus for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing them against previous versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contract templates without replacing professional legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with its prior version and generate a list of modifications.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Accurately extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Reconciling invoices against purchase orders and terms
      • Compiling lists of discrepancies for approval
      • Exercise: Transfer data from five receipts into a table and flag deviations from the order.
    • Financial Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Requesting explanations and preparation of Excel analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and performing recalculations
      • Exercise: Create an overview sorted by due date with brief comments from a list of open items.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring processes
      • Developing a skill for a standard workflow
      • Defining control steps
      • Exercise: Create a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two specific cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each achieve one faster workflow with Claude and master a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Departmental Focus for Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Addressing catalog and pricing inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Generating calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Respond to a real inquiry using the catalog and price list, and verify the calculations.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipts using photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling inventory lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying recurring sources of error in stock management
      • Exercise: Reconcile two inventory lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Composing replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring consistent tone and technical terminology through the departmental project
      • Preparing conversation notes and call preparations
      • Exercise: Respond to 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 team-wide skills
      • Assigning responsibilities for subsequent steps
      • Exercise: Collaboratively create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department secures at least one concrete, accelerated workflow, with teams understanding the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise tier recommended), a laptop, a completed departmental questionnaire in advance (covering the three most critical processes, tools currently in use, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming skills are required.

Target Audience

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

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