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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond Chatbots: Overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Limitations, common errors, and the importance of human review
      • Aligning capabilities with insights from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Participants identify their two most time-consuming tasks.
    • Practical Effective Prompting
      • Defining role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iterative refinement rather than starting over
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Establishing one project per department using price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Logical file naming and maintenance of up-to-date information
      • Team sharing and permission settings
      • Exercise: Build a departmental project with three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integration with Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies instead of automated sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to categorize three pending emails and review the drafted replies.
    • Outcome: Participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team has a project with real documents.
  • Day 2: Departmental Focus for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates while noting the need for legal advice
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into a structured list
      • Exercise: Compare a contract draft with a previous version and generate a change log.
    • Invoices and Receipts
      • Accurate data extraction from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms
      • Compiling deviations for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and flag deviations from the order.
    • Financial Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation methods and recalculating
      • Exercise: Create an overview sorted by due date with comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring workflows
      • Writing skills for standard processes
      • Defining control steps
      • Exercise: Develop a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two scenarios.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams have one faster workflow with Claude and a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Departmental Focus for Procurement, Warehouse, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Handling catalog and price inquiries using stored lists
      • Ensuring consistent quality in quotations and follow-ups
      • Preparing calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Respond to a real inquiry using catalog and price lists, and verify calculations.
    • Warehouse Operations, Goods Receipt, and Stock
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales data
      • Identifying recurring stock errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Responding in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical terminology via the departmental project
      • Preparing conversation notes and call briefs
      • Exercise: Reply to a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terms.
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing collected ideas by effort and benefit
      • Outlook on Cowork and skills for the entire team
      • Assigning responsibilities for subsequent steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments.
    • Outcome: Each department has a concrete workflow for improved efficiency, and the team knows the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise recommended), a laptop, a completed department questionnaire in advance (detailing the three most critical processes, tools in use, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Audience

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

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