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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: From request to completed task
    • From chat to delegation
      • Understanding Cowork and how it differs from chat and Claude Code
      • Managing folder access, reviewing plans, tracking progress, and viewing interim results
      • Identifying suitable tasks versus those that are not appropriate
      • Exercise: Categorize three tasks from your week based on their suitability for Cowork.
    • Writing effective assignments
      • Defining goals, materials, constraints, approval points, and acceptance criteria
      • Reviewing the proposed plan before execution
      • Steering the process while work is in progress
      • Exercise: Draft an assignment for a real task and collaboratively evaluate the proposed plan.
    • Documents and files
      • Organizing folders, renaming files, and archiving documents
      • Synthesizing reports from multiple source files
      • Generating Excel tables and PowerPoint drafts
      • Verifying results against original source files
      • Exercise: Create a status report with a task list from a folder of meeting minutes.
    • Research through to the report
      • Conducting web research with defined sources and exclusions
      • Using Claude in Chrome for website-specific research
      • Validating sources and requesting supporting excerpts
      • Exercise: Delegate a market or vendor research task, producing a table with sources, and perform spot-checks.
    • Plugins, skills, connectors, and scheduled tasks
      • Utilizing plugins and skills for recurring workflows
      • Integrating connectors for mail, calendar, and file storage
      • Configuring scheduled tasks, such as a weekly report every Friday
      • Exercise: Set up a scheduled task for a recurring report.
    • Working safely
      • Restricting access to released folders only and backing up before significant changes
      • Requiring approval before deleting or sending data
      • Identifying hidden instructions within files and web pages
      • Exercise: Document three safety rules for Cowork applicable to your workflow.
    • Outcome: Each participant will have delegated three real-world tasks to Cowork, reviewed the outputs, and established 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, project and department leads who prefer delegating entire tasks to Claude rather than engaging in step-by-step conversations.

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