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Duration 15 hours
Course Outline
AI Fundamentals for Productivity
- The Essence of Generative AI
- A concise overview of the evolution of language models
- Gaining insight into Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Evaluating the strengths and constraints of tools such as ChatGPT
- Getting Started with ChatGPT
- Setting up accounts and navigating the interface
- Core concepts: temperature settings, context windows, and defining "personas"
- Practice Session: Creating an initial draft using ChatGPT
Mastery of Prompt Engineering
- Deconstructing Effective Prompts
- Essential elements: task definition, context, role assignment, output format, and tone
- Techniques for iterative "ask and refine" prompting
- Advanced Prompting Strategies
- Chain-of-Thought reasoning: guiding the AI to think step-by-step
- Few-Shot Prompting: utilizing examples to sharpen results
- The iterative process: refining prompts to achieve precision
- Practice Session: Iteratively refining prompts to generate a specific management report
Automating Writing and Summarization
- Email Drafting and Automated Responses
- Creating professional email drafts from scratch
- Automating standard and personalized replies
- Summarizing and Analyzing Documents
- Condensing meeting notes, articles, and extensive documents
- Identifying key takeaways and action items from complex texts
- Practice Session: Using ChatGPT to summarize a document and draft a corresponding email reply
Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel
- Overview of Copilot in Excel
- Exploring the interface and understanding its features
- Crafting effective prompts for data interpretation
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Tasking Copilot with analyzing large datasets
- Automatically generating charts, pivot tables, and visual insights
- Forecasting and Reporting
- Generating forecasts based on historical data trends
- Producing draft reports from spreadsheet data
- Practice Session: Analyzing a sales dataset, generating forecasts, and creating visual charts with Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint and Outlook
- Copilot in PowerPoint
- Building presentation frameworks from Word documents or text drafts
- Enhancing slides with design suggestions, relevant imagery, and content restructuring
- Practice Session: Developing a comprehensive project presentation using Copilot
- Copilot in Outlook
- Drafting and simplifying professional emails
- Inbox management: summarizing long threads and prioritizing critical messages
- Practice Session: Summarizing an email chain and generating a concise response via Copilot
Integration and Advanced Workflows
- Enterprise AI Agent Workflows
- Integrating Copilot with SharePoint and Microsoft Fabric
- Automating recurring tasks and business processes
- Information Management and Security
- Ethical considerations and privacy protocols when utilizing AI
- Best practices for managing sensitive data
- Practice Session: Designing a basic team workflow automation using Copilot in SharePoint
- Conclusion and Q&A: Exploring the future of AI in the workplace and identifying resources for ongoing learning
Requirements
- Familiarity with core Microsoft 365 applications
- Background in standard productivity or office management activities
- No previous experience with AI tools is necessary
Target Audience
- Corporate professionals and productivity experts
- Project managers and coordinators
- Teams seeking to embed AI into their daily operations
Testimonials (1)
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