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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond chatbots: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Limitations, common errors, and the role of human oversight
      • Contextualizing capabilities against responses from the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Participants identify the two most time-consuming tasks in their roles.
    • Practical Prompting Techniques
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iterative refinement versus starting from scratch
      • Developing templates for repetitive tasks
      • Exercise: Collaboratively draft a response to a typical business email using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Creating department-specific projects with price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Effective file naming and maintenance of up-to-date content
      • Team sharing protocols and permission settings
      • Exercise: Build a departmental project with three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Integrations and Initial Automations
      • Connecting to Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies rather than auto-sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team-specific skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three open emails and review the drafted replies.
    • Outcome: All participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team develops a departmental project using real documents.
  • Day 2: Departmental Session for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contract and Document Management
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates as a supplement to legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with a previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Clean data extraction from invoices and receipts
      • Reconciling invoices with purchase orders and terms
      • Preparing lists of discrepancies for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and flag deviations from the order.
    • Financial Figures, Summaries, and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Creating liquidity summaries from open items
      • Verifying calculation methods and recalculating
      • Exercise: Generate a due-date summary with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly repetitive processes
      • Writing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining control checkpoints
      • Exercise: Develop a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each identify one accelerated workflow and a tested skill leveraging Claude.
  • Day 3: Departmental Session for Purchasing, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Addressing catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotes and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Preparing calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Respond to a real inquiry using catalog and price list data, and verify the calculation.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipts from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling inventory lists with purchase and sales data
      • Identifying recurring sources of inventory errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two inventory lists and generate a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring tone and technical terminology consistency via the departmental project
      • Preparing meeting notes and call preparation materials
      • 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
      • Outlook on Cowork and skills for the broader team
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments collectively.
    • Outcome: Every department secures at least one concrete, accelerated workflow and understands the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise recommended), a laptop, a completed departmental questionnaire in advance (covering the three key processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming experience required.

Target Audience

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

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