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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: From Brief to Completed Deliverable
    • Transitioning from Chat to Delegation
      • Overview of Cowork and its distinctions from standard chat and Claude Code
      • Managing folder access, planning, progress tracking, and interim outputs
      • Identifying suitable versus unsuitable tasks for Cowork
      • Exercise: Classify three tasks from your current workload by their compatibility with Cowork.
    • Crafting Effective Assignments
      • Defining objectives, materials, constraints, approval points, and success metrics
      • Reviewing the proposed plan before execution
      • Guiding the workflow in progress
      • Exercise: Draft a brief for a real task and collectively evaluate the suggested plan.
    • Document and File Management
      • Organizing folders, renaming, and structuring files
      • Synthesizing reports from multiple source documents
      • Generating Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint drafts
      • Validating outputs against original sources
      • Exercise: Generate a status report with a task list from a folder of meeting minutes.
    • Research to Report Generation
      • Conducting web research with source management and exclusion criteria
      • Utilizing Claude in Chrome for web-based research
      • Verifying sources and retrieving supporting evidence
      • Exercise: Delegate a market or vendor analysis, requesting a sourced table and conducting spot checks.
    • Automation: Plugins, Skills, Connectors, and Scheduled Tasks
      • Utilizing plugins and skills for recurring workflows
      • Integrating connectors for email, calendar, and file storage
      • Configuring scheduled tasks, such as weekly Friday reports
      • Exercise: Set up a scheduled task for a recurring report.
    • Safe Operating Practices
      • Restricting access to authorized folders and implementing backups before major changes
      • Enforcing approval protocols for deletions and external communications
      • Mitigating risks from hidden instructions in files or web pages
      • Exercise: Define three safety rules for Cowork application in your work.
    • Outcome: Each participant will have delegated three real-world tasks to Cowork, reviewed the outcomes, and configured a scheduled task.

Requirements

  • A Claude account with access to Cowork (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise), the Claude desktop application, and a test folder containing anonymized work files.
  • Familiarity with basic Claude functionalities.

Target Audience

  • Knowledge workers, assistants, and project or department leads who prefer delegating full task cycles to Claude over step-by-step chat interactions.

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