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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond the Chatbot: An overview of chat features, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the role of human review
      • Aligning capabilities with insights from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies the two most time-consuming tasks in their role.
    • Practical Effective Prompting
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Iterative refinement techniques rather than starting 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 one project per department containing price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintaining up-to-date content
      • Team sharing strategies and permission management
      • Exercise: Set up a department project with three real documents and pose five test questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automation
      • Integration with Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Generating reply drafts instead of automated sending
      • Introduction to Cowork and team-oriented skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three open emails and review the generated reply drafts.
    • 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 while maintaining the need for professional legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with its previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts Processing
      • Clean data extraction from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and agreed terms
      • Preparing deviation lists for approval processes
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and identify discrepancies with the original order.
    • Financial Analysis and Liquidity
      • Interpreting and preparing Excel-based analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and performing recalculations
      • Exercise: Create an overview organized by due date with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly repeating workflows
      • Developing a skill for a standard workflow
      • Establishing control checkpoints
      • Exercise: Construct a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams 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
      • Responding to catalog and pricing inquiries using stored price lists
      • Drafting quotations and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Preparing calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using the catalog and price list, then verify the calculations.
    • 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 list of discrepancies.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Composing replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology via the department project
      • Preparing conversation notes and phone call summaries
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-verify technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Roadmap
      • Prioritizing collected ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Outlook on Cowork and skills for the entire team
      • Defining responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Develop a prioritized use case matrix for all departments collectively.
    • 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 department questionnaire (covering the three most critical processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Target Audience

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

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