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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundational Skills for All
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the Chatbot: 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 department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks.
    • Effective Prompting in Practice
      • Defining role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iterative refinement techniques instead of starting from scratch
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Collaborate with Claude to draft a response to a typical business email from your own mailbox.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Creating one project per department, incorporating price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintenance
      • Team sharing and permission management
      • Exercise: Build a department project with three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Linking Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts rather than automatic sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team-specific skills
      • Exercise: Instruct Claude to triage three open emails from your mailbox and review the suggested drafts.
    • Outcome: Participants confidently use Claude, and each team has a department-specific project populated with real documents.
  • Day 2: Department-Specific Session for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates (complementing, not replacing, legal advice)
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a draft contract with a previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Reconciling invoices with purchase orders and terms
      • Preparing lists of discrepancies for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and identify deviations from the original order.
    • Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating as needed
      • Exercise: Create a due-date overview with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying workflows that occur weekly
      • Creating skills for standard processes
      • Defining control mechanisms
      • Exercise: Develop a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it with two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each have one optimized workflow using Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Department-Specific Session for Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price inquiries using stored data
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Generating calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Respond to a real inquiry using catalogs and price lists, verifying the calculations.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Stock
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock, purchase, and sales lists
      • Identifying recurring stock errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and produce a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology via the department project
      • Preparing conversation notes and phone call briefs
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages, cross-checking technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for the entire team
      • Assigning responsibilities for follow-up actions
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department has at least one concrete, accelerated workflow, and the team is aligned on the next steps for automation.

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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

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