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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.
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the necessity of human oversight.
      • Aligning capabilities with insights from the departmental questionnaire.
      • Activity: Each participant identifies their two most time-intensive tasks.
    • Practical Effective Prompting
      • Structuring prompts using role, task, context, examples, and output format.
      • Refining responses iteratively rather than restarting entirely.
      • Developing templates for repetitive tasks.
      • Activity: Collaborate with Claude to respond to a typical business email from your inbox.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Creating a dedicated project per department, incorporating price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules.
      • Implementing sensible file naming conventions and maintenance strategies.
      • Managing team sharing and access permissions.
      • Activity: Build a department project using three real documents and pose five diagnostic questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integration with Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint.
      • Drafting replies for review rather than enabling automatic sending.
      • Introducing Cowork and team-oriented skills.
      • Activity: Use Claude to triage three open emails and review the generated draft replies.
    • Outcome: Participants will confidently operate Claude, and each team will have a functional department project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Departmental Workshop for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes.
      • Drafting contracts from templates (not as a substitute for legal counsel).
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists.
      • Activity: Compare a contract draft against a previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts.
      • Matching invoices against orders and payment terms.
      • Preparing lists of discrepancies for approval.
      • Activity: Convert five receipts into a table and flag any deviations from the order.
    • Financial Metrics and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel-based analyses.
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items.
      • Verifying calculation logic and performing recalculations.
      • Activity: Create a due-date overview with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly repetitive processes.
      • Developing skills for standard workflows.
      • Establishing control checkpoints.
      • Activity: Build a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams will each have one workflow accelerated by Claude, supported by a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Departmental Workshop for Procurement, Warehouse, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price inquiries using stored price lists.
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality.
      • Generating Excel files with formulas for calculations.
      • Activity: Respond to a real inquiry using catalog data and verify the calculations.
    • 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.
      • Activity: 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 via the department project.
      • Preparing meeting notes and phone call briefs.
      • Activity: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and verify technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas based on effort and benefit.
      • Exploring Cowork and skills for team-wide application.
      • Assigning responsibilities for follow-up actions.
      • Activity: Collaboratively create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department will have at least one concrete, accelerated workflow, and the team will have a clear roadmap toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise edition recommended), a laptop, a pre-completed departmental questionnaire (covering the three most critical processes, current tools, and anticipated changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming experience is necessary.

Target Audience

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

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