Microsoft Copilot Cowork Power User

This course is intended for business users, knowledge workers, team leaders, and professionals who want to maximize their productivity and effectiveness by using Microsoft Copilot to streamline daily tasks, enhance collaboration, and improve the quality of their work.

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand where Copilot Cowork fits within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
• Identify when to use Cowork versus in-application Copilot features
• Write effective prompts tailored for cross-application workflows
• Use Cowork to manage common productivity tasks across email, meetings, and collaboration
• Generate and refine documents and deliverables using Cowork
• Create and manage automated workflows and scheduled tasks
• Develop simple custom skills using markdown-based definitions
• Apply Cowork to real-world, end-to-end business scenarios

Introduction to Copilot Cowork

• Overview of Copilot Cowork
• Positioning within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem

Cowork vs In-App Copilot

• Comparing Cowork with Copilot in Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Choosing the right tool for different scenarios

Effective Prompting for Cowork

• Writing clear and well-scoped instructions
• Understanding how Cowork resolves people, dates, and context
• Interpreting outputs and refining results safely

Core Productivity Workflows

• Email triage, drafting, and follow-ups
• Calendar scheduling and meeting preparation
• Teams messaging and conversation summaries
• Post-meeting notes, actions, and recap outputs

Documents and Deliverables

• Generating Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF outputs
• Refining and iterating on generated content
• Working with uploaded source files
• Managing output folders

Automations and Scheduled Tasks

• Creating recurring prompts and workflow automations
• Managing, editing, pausing, and retiring automations

Custom Skills Using Markdown

• Understanding skill concepts
• How Cowork routes tasks to skills
• Structure of a simple skill file
• Safe testing and iteration approaches

Capstone Lab

• End-to-end scenario combining email, meetings, files, and automation

Hands-On Labs

This course includes extensive practical exercises where delegates will:

• Build and refine cross-application workflows
• Create automated and scheduled productivity tasks
• Develop and test simple custom skills
• Complete an end-to-end business scenario using Copilot Cowork

Participants are recommended to have basic experience using Microsoft 365 applications, familiarity with digital collaboration tools, and a general understanding of workplace productivity processes.

None

None

Course Delivery:

- 25% Theory

- 25% Demonstration

- 50% Hands-on Labs