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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Foundational Skills for All Participants
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Beyond Chatbots: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Limitations, common errors, and the importance of human review
      • Mapping capabilities to the needs identified in the departmental questionnaire
      • Exercise: Each participant identifies their two most time-consuming tasks.
    • Practical Prompt Engineering
      • Defining role, task, context, examples, and output format
      • Iterative refinement rather than starting from scratch
      • Creating templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email from your own mailbox using Claude.
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up one project per department, including price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Logical file naming conventions and maintenance
      • Team sharing and permission management
      • Exercise: Create a departmental project with three real documents and test it with five questions.
    • Connectors and Initial Automation
      • Linking Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies instead of auto-sending
      • Overview of Cowork and team skills
      • Exercise: Use Claude to sort three open emails from your mailbox and review the drafted replies.
    • Outcome: All participants work confidently with Claude, and each team establishes a department-specific project using real documents.
  • Day 2: Departmental Session for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contracts and Documentation
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates (not replacing legal advice)
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into lists
      • 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
      • Preparing deviation lists for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and flag any deviations from the order.
    • Figures, Overviews, and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Creating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation paths and recalculating
      • Exercise: Generate a due-date overview with brief comments from an open items list.
    • Recurring Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring workflows
      • Writing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining control steps
      • Exercise: Build a skill for a standard departmental workflow and test it on two cases.
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each identify one workflow accelerated by Claude, supported by a tested skill.
  • Day 3: Departmental Session 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
      • Preparing calculations as Excel files with formulas
      • Exercise: Answer a real inquiry using catalog and price list data and verify the calculation.
    • Warehouse, Goods Receipt, and Stock
      • Recording goods receipts from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock lists with purchase and sales records
      • Identifying recurring stock errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a discrepancy report.
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Ensuring tone and technical terminology via departmental projects
      • Preparing meeting notes and call preparation
      • Exercise: Respond 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 team skills
      • Assigning responsibilities for next steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments collectively.
    • Outcome: Each department secures at least one concrete workflow with improved efficiency, and the team understands the next steps toward automation.

Requirements

  • A Claude account (Team or Enterprise tier recommended), a laptop, a completed pre-course departmental questionnaire (detailing three key processes, current tools, and planned changes), and anonymized sample documents for each department.
  • No programming experience is required.

Target Audience

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

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