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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Universal Foundations
    • Current Capabilities of Claude
      • Transcending the chatbot: An overview of chat, projects, artifacts, Cowork, and skills
      • Understanding limitations, common errors, and the importance of human oversight
      • Aligning capabilities with responses from the department questionnaire
      • Exercise: Identify the two most time-consuming tasks for each participant
    • Effective Prompting Techniques
      • Structuring prompts with role, task, context, examples, and desired output format
      • Iterative refinement rather than starting from scratch
      • Developing templates for recurring tasks
      • Exercise: Draft a response to a typical business email from your inbox with Claude
    • Projects and Custom Knowledge Bases
      • Setting up one project per department, including price lists, catalogs, templates, and rules
      • Best practices for file naming and maintenance
      • Team sharing protocols and permission management
      • Exercise: Create a department project using three real documents and pose five test questions
    • Connectors and Initial Automations
      • Integrating Outlook, OneDrive, or SharePoint
      • Drafting replies instead of automatic sending
      • Overview of Cowork and skills for team use
      • Exercise: Use Claude to organize three pending emails and review draft replies
    • Outcome: All participants gain confidence in using Claude, and each team establishes a department project populated with actual documents
  • Day 2: Department-Specific Training for Administration, Finance, and Legal
    • Contract and Document Management
      • Reviewing contracts, comparing versions, and highlighting changes
      • Drafting contracts from templates as a support tool (not replacing legal advice)
      • Extracting deadlines and obligations into structured lists
      • Exercise: Compare a draft contract with a previous version and generate a change log
    • Invoice and Receipt Processing
      • Cleanly extracting data from invoices and receipts
      • Matching invoices against orders and terms
      • Compiling deviations into lists for approval
      • Exercise: Convert five receipts into a table and flag deviations from the original order
    • Financial Analysis and Liquidity
      • Explaining and preparing Excel analyses
      • Generating liquidity overviews from open items
      • Verifying calculation logic and recalculating as needed
      • Exercise: Create a due-date overview with comments from an open items list
    • Streamlined Administrative Workflows
      • Identifying weekly recurring processes
      • Developing skills for standard workflows
      • Defining control steps for quality assurance
      • Exercise: Build and test a skill for a standard departmental workflow with two case studies
    • Outcome: Administration and finance teams each define one workflow accelerated by Claude, supported by a tested skill
  • Day 3: Department-Specific Training for Procurement, Warehousing, and Customer Service
    • Inquiries and Quotations
      • Responding to catalog and price inquiries using stored data
      • Drafting quotes and follow-ups with consistent quality
      • Generating Excel files with formulas for calculations
      • Exercise: Respond to a real inquiry using catalog and price list data and verify calculations
    • Warehouse Operations and Inventory
      • Recording goods receipt from photos and delivery notes
      • Reconciling stock, purchase, and sales lists
      • Identifying recurring inventory errors
      • Exercise: Reconcile two stock lists and generate a discrepancy report
    • Multilingual Customer Communication
      • Drafting replies in German, English, and other languages
      • Maintaining tone and technical accuracy via department projects
      • Preparing conversation notes and call scripts
      • Exercise: Respond to a customer inquiry in two languages and cross-check technical terminology
    • Use Case Matrix and Next Steps
      • Prioritizing ideas based on effort and benefit
      • Outlook on Cowork and skills for the wider team
      • Assigning responsibilities for subsequent steps
      • Exercise: Create a prioritized use case matrix for all departments
    • Outcome: Each department finalizes at least one concrete workflow for immediate implementation and identifies next steps for further 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 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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