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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundational Skills for All
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Going beyond chatbots: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the role of human review
      • Comparing findings with responses from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks.
    • Practical Prompt Engineering
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iteratively refining prompts rather than starting from scratch
      • Creating templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email from your inbox using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up one project per department, including price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Implementing sensible file naming conventions and maintaining up-to-date documentation
      • Managing team sharing and permissions
      • Exercise: Create a department project with three real documents and ask five test questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integrating Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts rather than auto-sending emails
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for team use
      • Exercise: Have Claude categorize three pending emails and review the suggested reply drafts.
    • Outcome: All participants work confidently with Claude, and each team has its own department project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Department Session for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates, noting that this does not replace legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into a list
      • 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
      • Compiling deviations into a list for approval
      • Exercise: Transfer five receipts into a table and mark any deviations from the order.
    • Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses with Claude
      • Preparing liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating as needed
      • Exercise: Create an overview by due date with brief comments 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 each have one workflow that runs faster with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Department Session 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
      • Preparing calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Respond to a real inquiry using a catalog and price list, then 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
      • Ensuring tone and technical terminology consistency through the department project
      • Preparing conversation notes and phone call briefings
      • Exercise: Answer a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas by effort and benefit
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for the entire team
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Collaboratively create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department has at least one concrete workflow that runs faster from now on, and the team knows the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise edition recommended), a laptop, a pre-completed department questionnaire (detailing three key processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming skills are required.

Target Audience

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

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