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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the chatbot: Overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the role of human oversight
      • Aligning capabilities with the insights from the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Participants identify the two most time-consuming tasks in their roles.
    • Effective prompting strategies
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iterative refinement techniques instead of restarting from scratch
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Collaborate with Claude to draft a response to a typical business email from your inbox.
    • Projects and custom knowledge bases
      • Creating a dedicated project per department containing price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintenance
      • Managing team sharing and permissions
      • Exercise: Set up a departmental project with three real documents and pose five test questions.
    • Connectors and initial automations
      • Linking Claude to Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies rather than auto-sending messages
      • Introduction to Cowork and team skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to organize three pending emails and review the suggested replies.
    • Outcome: All participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team establishes a dedicated departmental project populated with actual documents.
  • Day 2: Focus for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contract and document management
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates as a supplement to, not a replacement for, legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a draft contract with its previous version and generate a list of modifications.
    • Invoice and receipt processing
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms
      • Compiling discrepancies for approval review
      • Exercise: Transcribe five receipts into a table and flag any deviations from the original order.
    • Figures, overviews, and liquidity management
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation logic and recalculating results
      • Exercise: Create a due-date overview with brief comments based on an open items list.
    • Recurring administrative workflows
      • Identifying weekly repeating processes
      • Developing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining necessary control steps
      • Exercise: Build a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each implement one faster workflow using Claude, supported by a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Focus for Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotes and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Preparation of calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using the catalog and price list, then verify the calculations.
    • Warehouse, goods receipt, and stock management
      • Recording goods receipts from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying recurring stock error sources
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a list of discrepancies.
    • Multilingual customer communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring consistent tone and technical terminology via the departmental 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 future steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for the entire team
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix covering all departments.
    • Outcome: Every department identifies at least one concrete workflow for immediate speed-up, along with clear next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • Requirement of a Claude account (Team or Enterprise edition recommended), a laptop, a pre-completed departmental questionnaire (covering key processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Target Audience

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

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  • Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
  • Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
  • Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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