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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundations for Everyone
    • Understanding Claude’s Current Capabilities
      • Beyond the Chatbot: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limits, common errors, and the importance of human review
      • Aligning capabilities with answers from the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks in their role.
    • Effective Prompting in Practice
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Refining outputs iteratively rather than restarting from scratch
      • Creating templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email from your own mailbox using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Establishing one project per department to house price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and keeping content up to date
      • Managing team sharing and permissions
      • Exercise: Create a department project containing three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automation
      • Integrating Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Using reply drafts rather than automatic sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team skills
      • Exercise: Have Claude sort three open emails from your mailbox and review the suggested reply drafts.
    • Outcome: All participants work confidently with Claude, and each team has a department-specific project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Department Day for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documents
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates (not a replacement for legal advice)
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with a previous 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 identify deviations from the original order.
    • Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Explaining 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 workflows that repeat weekly
      • Developing a skill for standard workflows
      • Defining control steps
      • Exercise: Build a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each have one workflow accelerated by Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Department Day for Purchasing, Warehouse, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Generating Excel files with formulas for calculations
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using catalog and price list data and verify 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 management
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology through the department 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 ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Exploring Cowork and skills for team-wide application
      • Assigning responsibilities for subsequent steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments collectively.
    • Outcome: Each department has at least one concrete, faster workflow, and the team knows the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise plans recommended), a laptop, a pre-completed departmental questionnaire (detailing the three key processes, current tools, 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, spanning beginner to advanced users.

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