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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundations for all
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the chatbot: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Limitations, common errors, and the importance of human review
      • Aligning capabilities with responses from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two tasks that consume the most time.
    • Practical Prompting Techniques
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iterative refinement rather than restarting from scratch
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email from the participant's mailbox using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up one project per department, including price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for naming files and keeping them current
      • Team sharing and permission management
      • Exercise: Create a department project with three real documents and ask five test questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automation
      • Linking Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies instead of automated sending
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for team use
      • Exercise: Have Claude sort three open emails from the mailbox and review the drafted replies.
    • 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 Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates as a complement to legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into a structured list
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with an earlier version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms
      • Preparing deviation lists for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and mark deviations from the original order.
    • Financial Data and Liquidity
      • Analyzing and preparing Excel reports
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating
      • Exercise: Create an overview by due date with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring workflows
      • Creating a skill for standard workflows
      • 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 optimized with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Department day for procurement, warehouse, and customer service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Handling catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Preparing calculations in Excel with formulas
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using a catalog and price list and verify the calculation.
    • Warehouse, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying recurring inventory errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Multi-language Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology via the department project
      • Preparing conversation notes and call summaries
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing 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 for faster execution and knows the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • Claude account (Team or Enterprise recommended), laptop, a completed department questionnaire (outlining the three most critical processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming skills required.

Audience

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

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