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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the chatbot: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills.
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the importance of human oversight.
      • Aligning capabilities with insights from the departmental questionnaire.
      • Exercise: Participants identify the two most time-consuming tasks in their roles.
    • Practical Prompting Techniques
      • Defining role, task, context, examples, and output format.
      • Iterative refinement strategies versus starting from scratch.
      • Developing templates for recurring assignments.
      • Exercise: Collaboratively draft a response to a typical business email from your inbox using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Creating a single project per department that includes price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules.
      • Effective file naming conventions and maintenance strategies.
      • Team sharing protocols and permission management.
      • Exercise: Build a departmental project using three real documents and pose five test questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integration with Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint.
      • Generating reply drafts rather than automatic sends.
      • Overview of Cowork and team-oriented skills.
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three pending emails and review the generated draft replies.
    • Outcome: All participants work confidently with Claude, and each team has its own department project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Specialized 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, not a replacement for, 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.
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms of sale.
      • Compiling deviations into lists for approval processes.
      • Exercise: Transfer data from five receipts into a table and flag discrepancies with the original order.
    • Financial Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Interpreting and preparing Excel analyses.
      • Creating liquidity overviews from open items.
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating as needed.
      • Exercise: Generate a due-date overview with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring processes.
      • Creating skills for standard workflows.
      • Defining necessary control steps.
      • Exercise: Develop a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance each have one workflow that runs faster with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Specialized Session for Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Handling 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 catalog and price list data, then verify the calculation.
    • Warehousing, Goods Receipt, and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes.
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records.
      • Identifying recurring sources of inventory errors.
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Composing replies in German, English, and other languages.
      • Ensuring tone and technical terminology consistency via the departmental project.
      • Preparing conversation notes and call briefings.
      • Exercise: Answer a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas based on effort and benefit.
      • Outlook on implementing Cowork and skills across the entire team.
      • Assigning responsibilities for subsequent actions.
      • 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 tier recommended), a laptop, a pre-completed departmental survey (covering three key processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each relevant department.
  • No programming experience is required.

Target Audience

  • Teams in administration, accounting, legal, procurement, warehousing, and customer service within mid-sized companies, suitable for users of all skill levels.

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