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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Mastering Claude for Daily Business Operations
    • Onboarding and Objective Setting
      • Assessment of each participant's current status and available license tiers
      • Participants will bring one specific use case to develop over the two-day period
      • Overview of Claude's current capabilities and recognized limitations
      • Exercise: Document the personal use case on a card, specifying the goal, input data, and desired outcome.
    • Foundations of Language Models
      • Understanding tokens and context windows (the volume of text processed simultaneously)
      • Why identical queries can yield varying responses
      • Mitigating model hallucinations and controlling output accuracy
      • Comparison matrix of Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models based on quality, speed, and usage limits
      • Determining when Claude, Copilot, or ChatGPT is the superior choice
      • Exercise: Execute the same task using two different models and evaluate results for quality and speed.
    • Crafting Effective Prompts and Context
      • Core components of robust prompts: role, task, context, examples, format, and constraints
      • Enabling Claude to ask clarifying questions before executing tasks
      • Techniques for summarizing, comparing long documents, and extracting supporting text
      • Integrating review steps directly into prompt instructions
      • Exercise: Refine a weak prompt from daily work through three iterative rounds and compare versions side-by-side.
    • Projects as Shared Knowledge Bases
      • Optimal separation of project instructions and knowledge files
      • Centralized storage of house styles, product knowledge, and templates
      • Segregating team-specific and private areas to isolate sensitive content
      • Verifying, correcting, and disabling memory features as needed
      • Exercise: Create a project for your use case, including one instruction set and three knowledge files.
    • Artifacts, File Management, and Analysis
      • Generating reports, tables, charts, and presentation drafts as artifacts
      • Querying and analyzing Excel, PDF, and Word documents
      • Using analysis tools for calculations and performing manual spot-checks
      • Exporting, publishing, and sharing artifacts within the team
      • Exercise: Create an analysis with a chart and brief commentary based on an anonymized Excel dataset.
    • Day 1 Outcome: Each participant will have a configured project for their use case, two improved templates, and a first artifact built from real material.
  • Day 2: Expanding Claude’s Capabilities with Skills, Connectors, Cowork, and Routines
    • Ecosystem Overview
      • Deployment environments: chat, desktop app, Claude in Chrome, Cowork, and Claude Code
      • Definitions of skills, connectors, MCP, and routines
      • Simplified explanation of agents: AI-driven workflows utilizing tools
      • Live demonstration from concept to completed skill
      • Exercise: Map your use case to the appropriate layer and justify the selection.
    • Developing the First Custom Skill
      • Skill structure: description, applicability criteria, workflow, examples, and templates
      • Iterative writing and refinement of skills with Claude’s assistance
      • Testing procedures using three real-world scenarios
      • Team strategies for sharing and maintaining skills
      • Exercise: Each participant will build a skill for their specific use case, such as drafting replies in house style or generating review reports.
    • Connectors and Integrated Services
      • Linking Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, file storage, and calendars
      • Maintaining minimal necessary permissions
      • Identifying hidden instructions in emails or documents (prompt injection risks)
      • Exercise: Connect a service and execute a task spanning mailbox and calendar, such as preparing for the next meeting.
    • Claude Cowork and Automated Routines
      • Task delegation via Cowork, with access to designated folders
      • Monitoring plans, tracking progress, and reviewing interim results
      • Scheduled tasks, such as daily morning summaries or weekly reports
      • Implementing approval gates before sending or deleting content
      • Exercise: Configure a routine for a daily overview and jointly evaluate the initial execution.
    • Team Protocols and 30-Day Roadmap
      • Guidelines on permissible uploads and restricted data types
      • Maintaining shared skills and projects, including responsibility allocation
      • Distribution of model comparison matrix and reference sheets as handouts
      • Exercise: Draft a personal 30-day plan comprising three concrete action steps.
    • Day 2 Outcome: Each participant will leave the course with a functional skill, a connected connector, a configured routine, and a 30-day plan.

Requirements

  • A laptop equipped with an up-to-date browser, a valid Claude account (Pro, Team, or Enterprise tier). The Claude desktop application is recommended, along with a specific use case derived from daily operations.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Target Audience

  • Professionals in administration, finance, procurement, HR, project management, and process management who are adopting or evaluating Claude and seek to utilize advanced features beyond basic chat interactions.

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