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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Core Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond Chatbots: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Limitations, common errors, and the importance of human oversight
      • Aligning features with insights from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Identify the two most time-consuming tasks for each participant.
    • Practical Prompt Engineering
      • Defining role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Iterative refinement techniques rather than restarting prompts
      • Developing templates for repetitive tasks
      • Exercise: Collaborate with Claude to respond to a typical business email from your inbox.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up a dedicated project per department with price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintenance
      • Team sharing protocols and permission settings
      • Exercise: Create a department project with three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integration with Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts instead of auto-sending
      • Introduction to Cowork and team skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three pending emails and review the suggested replies.
    • Outcome: Participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team establishes a department project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Department Focus – Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Creating contract drafts from templates (not a substitute for legal advice)
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a draft contract with a previous version to generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Accurate data extraction from invoices and receipts
      • Verifying invoices against purchase orders and terms
      • Compiling discrepancies for approval
      • Exercise: Process five receipts into a table and flag deviations from orders.
    • Financial Overviews and Liquidity
      • Interpreting and preparing Excel-based analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Validating calculation methods and recalculating
      • Exercise: Create a due-date overview with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Processes
      • Identifying weekly recurring workflows
      • Creating a skill for standard processes
      • Defining validation steps
      • Exercise: Develop a skill for a standard department workflow and test it with two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each identify one accelerated workflow and a validated skill.
  • Day 3: Department Focus – Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price 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/price data and verify the calculation.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Logging goods receipt via 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 responses in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology via the department project
      • Preparing conversation notes and call briefings
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and verify technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Future Steps
      • Prioritizing ideas based on effort versus benefit
      • Overview of Cowork and team-wide skills
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Collaboratively create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department has at least one optimized workflow, and the team is prepared for the next automation steps.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise editions recommended), a laptop, a completed department questionnaire (highlighting top three processes, current tools, and upcoming changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming experience is necessary.

Target Audience

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

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