Thank you for sending your enquiry! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Thank you for sending your booking! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Duration 15 hours
Course Outline
Foundations of AI for Productivity
- Understanding Generative AI
- A concise overview of the history and evolution of language models
- Gaining insight into Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Exploring the capabilities and inherent limitations of tools such as ChatGPT
- Getting Started with ChatGPT
- Setting up your account and navigating the interface
- Core concepts: temperature settings, context management, and defining "persona"
- Practical Activity: Creating your initial draft using ChatGPT
The Skill of Prompt Engineering
- Deconstructing an Effective Prompt
- Essential elements: task definition, context, role assignment, output format, and tone
- Techniques for "ask and refine" prompting strategies
- Advanced Prompting Methodologies
- Chain-of-Thought: Directing the AI to reason through steps
- Few-Shot Prompting: Utilizing examples to sharpen results
- Iterative refinement: The critical step toward achieving precise outputs
- Practical Activity: Refining a prompt iteratively until the desired outcome for a management report is achieved
Streamlining Writing and Summarization
- Email Creation and Response Automation
- Producing polished professional email drafts
- Automating standard and personalized replies
- Summarizing and Analyzing Documents
- Condensing meeting minutes, articles, and lengthy documents
- Identifying key points and actionable items from complex texts
- Practical Activity: Employing ChatGPT to summarize a document and craft a corresponding email response
Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel
- Overview of Copilot in Excel
- Familiarizing yourself with the interface and its core capabilities
- Crafting effective prompts for data analysis
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Tasking Copilot with analyzing large datasets
- Automatically generating charts, pivot tables, and visualizations
- Predictive Analysis and Reporting
- Leveraging Copilot to create forecasts based on historical data
- Drafting reports directly from spreadsheet information
- Practical Activity: Using Copilot to examine a sales dataset, generate a forecast, and produce a chart
Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint and Outlook
- Copilot in PowerPoint
- Building presentation frameworks from Word documents or text drafts
- Enhancing slides with design suggestions, relevant imagery, and content restructuring
- Practical Activity: Utilizing Copilot to build a full project presentation
- Copilot in Outlook
- Drafting and simplifying professional emails
- Managing your inbox: summarizing long threads and prioritizing critical messages
- Practical Activity: Asking Copilot to summarize an email chain and draft a concise reply
Integration and Advanced Workflows
- AI Agent Workflows in Enterprise Settings
- Connecting Copilot with SharePoint and Microsoft Fabric
- Automating repetitive tasks and broader business processes
- Data Governance and Security
- Ethical implications and privacy considerations when using AI tools
- Best practices for managing sensitive data
- Practical Activity: Designing a basic team workflow automation using Copilot in SharePoint
- Conclusion and Q&A: Discussing the future of AI in the workplace and resources for ongoing learning
Requirements
- A solid grasp of Microsoft 365 applications
- Familiarity with fundamental productivity or office management tasks
- No previous experience with AI tools is necessary
Target Audience
- Office professionals and productivity experts
- Project managers and team coordinators
- Teams seeking to integrate AI into their daily operational workflows
Testimonials (1)
correct way of prompting and including guardrails in instructions.