Get in Touch
 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the chatbot: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the need for human oversight
      • Mapping capabilities to answers from the pre-work department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Identify the two most time-consuming tasks for each participant.
    • Effective Prompting Techniques
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Iterative refinement strategies instead of restarting
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Collaborate with Claude to draft a response to a typical business email.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up one project per department to house price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintaining up-to-date documents
      • Managing team sharing and permissions
      • Exercise: Create a departmental project containing three real documents and run five test queries.
    • Integrations and Initial Automations
      • Connecting Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies rather than auto-sending messages
      • Introduction to Cowork and team-level skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three open emails and review the drafted responses.
    • Outcome: All participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team establishes a departmental project using actual documents.
  • Day 2: Department Focus – Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates while recognizing the limits of AI vs. legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with a previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against purchase orders and terms
      • Compiling lists of discrepancies for approval
      • Exercise: Process five receipts into a table and flag deviations from the order.
    • Financial Data and Liquidity
      • Interpreting and preparing Excel analyses
      • Creating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating as needed
      • Exercise: Generate a due-date overview with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly repetitive processes
      • Developing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining necessary control steps
      • Exercise: Build and test a skill for a standard departmental workflow using two case studies.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each implement one accelerated workflow using Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Department Focus – Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price inquiries using stored data
      • Drafting consistent quotes and follow-ups
      • Generating Excel files with formulas for calculations
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using catalog data and verify the calculations.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales data
      • Identifying recurring sources of inventory errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring tone and technical accuracy via the departmental project
      • Preparing conversation notes and call scripts
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and verify technical terminology.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing ideas based on effort and potential benefit
      • Exploring Cowork and skills for broader team adoption
      • Assigning responsibilities for implementation
      • Exercise: Collaborate to create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Every department identifies at least one concrete, faster workflow and understands the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise tier recommended), a laptop, a completed pre-work department questionnaire (covering top three processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Target Audience

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

Number of participants


Price per participant

Testimonials (3)

Upcoming Courses

Related Categories