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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundations for everyone
    • What Claude can do today
      • More than a chatbot: overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limits, typical errors, and the importance of human review
      • Comparison with answers from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two tasks that consume the most time.
    • Effective prompting in practice
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Refining prompts iteratively rather than starting over
      • Creating templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Answer a typical business email from your own mailbox together with Claude.
    • Projects and custom knowledge bases
      • Creating one project per department containing price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Naming files logically and keeping them up to date
      • Sharing within the team and managing permissions
      • Exercise: Create a department project with three real documents and ask five test questions.
    • Connectors and initial automations
      • Connecting Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts instead of automatic sending
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for the team
      • Exercise: Have Claude sort three open emails from the mailbox and review the reply drafts.
    • Outcome: All participants work confidently with Claude, and each team has a department project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Department day for administration, finance, and legal
    • Contracts and documents
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and marking changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates without replacing professional legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into a list
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with an earlier version and generate a list of changes.
    • Invoices and receipts
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms
      • Preparing a list of deviations for approval
      • Exercise: Transfer five receipts into a table and mark deviations from the order.
    • Figures, overviews, and liquidity
      • Requesting explanations and preparation of Excel analyses
      • Creating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating
      • Exercise: Create an overview by due date with a short comment from an open items list.
    • Recurring administrative workflows
      • Identifying workflows that repeat weekly
      • Writing a skill for a standard workflow
      • Defining control steps
      • Exercise: Build a skill for a standard department workflow and test it on two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each have one workflow that runs faster with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Department day for purchasing, warehouse, and customer service
    • Inquiries and quotations
      • Answering catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Generating calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using the catalog and price list, then check the calculation.
    • Warehouse, goods receipt, and stock
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales lists
      • Identifying recurring sources of error in stock
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Customer communication in multiple languages
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring consistent tone and technical terms through the department project
      • Preparing conversation notes and phone call briefs
      • Exercise: Answer a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check the technical terms.
    • Use case matrix and next steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas by effort and benefit
      • Outlook on Cowork and skills for the whole team
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments together.
    • Outcome: Each department has at least one concrete workflow that runs faster, and the team knows the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

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

Audience

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

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