Don’t just hear about AI.
Use it.

Spend less time catching up. Turn email, meetings and documents into a clear next step.

You leave with: A reusable work brief, a connected Microsoft 365 workflow and a source-backed research notebook.

1. Your AI companion for work

   Use the W.O.R.K. framework to choose the right Copilot experience, context and review checks.

2. Copilot across Microsoft 365

   Practise taking one task across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

3. Research, think and organise

   Build a research notebook that separates evidence, assumptions and unanswered questions.

4. Safe and responsible Copilot

   Check permissions, appropriate data use and output quality before work leaves your hands.

Your classroom build

Bring a recurring task. In small groups, turn a fictional email thread and meeting notes into an action list, briefing and presentation outline.

Required pre-work: review the assigned MicOS preparation, complete the account/access check and bring a non-confidential work challenge. Basic familiarity with AI and Microsoft 365 is recommended.

Already using Copilot for everyday tasks? Connect those tasks into a consistent workflow, improve the quality of your outputs and make your process easier to repeat.

You leave with: A reusable prompt pack, a reviewed research-to-presentation workflow and a practical checklist for your team.

1. Brief, refine and reuse

   Turn recurring tasks into structured briefs with examples, constraints and clear quality checks.

2. Research to recommendation

   Compare supplied sources, identify gaps and turn evidence into a decision-ready recommendation.

3. Connected work across Microsoft 365

   Develop a coordinated briefing, supporting analysis and presentation, checking consistency at each handover.

4. Repeatable team workflows

   Document the steps, assign human review points and test your process against different inputs before sharing it.

Your classroom build

Use a fictional project pack to create a checked recommendation, briefing document and presentation outline. Peer-review the results and package your prompts and process for reuse.

Required pre-work: complete the assigned preparation and account/access checks. Bring a non-confidential recurring task. Complete Microsoft Copilot Beginner or demonstrate equivalent experience.

Move beyond individual prompts. Build repeatable workflows your team can review and use.

You leave with: A tested leadership workflow, a decision-analysis pack and an agent prototype or design with a governance checklist.

1. Copilot power-user workflows

   Apply P.O.W.E.R. to map recurring work, connect inputs and set human review gates.

2. Excel and Analyst: decision intelligence

   Explore data, challenge calculations and turn findings into a defensible decision brief.

3. Build your first Copilot agent

   Define a focused job, approved knowledge and test cases for an agent.

4. Enterprise Copilot and agent governance

   Plan ownership, permissions, evaluation and controlled rollout before scaling.

Your classroom build

Build and peer-review a weekly leadership operating brief. Test an agent against normal and difficult inputs using an approved training environment.

Required pre-work: review the assigned MicOS preparation, complete the account/access check and bring a non-confidential work challenge. Complete Microsoft Copilot Intermediate or demonstrate equivalent experience.

Delegate a complete piece of work with confidence, then check the evidence behind the result.

You leave with: A reviewed meeting brief, a matching deck and summary, and a recurring-work playbook.

1. Cowork 101: from chat to action

   Use D.O.N.E. to define a bounded task, supply context and inspect the result.

2. Delegate like a pro

   Turn a vague request into a clear brief for a deck and matching one-page summary.

3. Cowork across Microsoft 365

   Keep analysis, documents and presentations aligned around one checked set of facts.

4. Deep research and executive intelligence

   Build a decision pack with source dates, contrary evidence and explicit gaps.

5. Automate your recurring work

   Design and test a leadership brief with clear triggers, review points and stop conditions.

Your classroom build

Work through a fictional leadership scenario in pairs. Review cross-file consistency, challenge weak evidence and rehearse a recurring task before discussing activation.

Required pre-work: review the assigned MicOS preparation, complete the account/access check and bring a non-confidential work challenge. Basic familiarity with AI and Microsoft 365 is recommended.

Create reusable ways of working, connect approved systems and build a credible plan to scale.

You leave with: A reusable skill draft, a business-system workflow design, an app test pack and an evidence-backed governance pack.

1. Customise Cowork with skills

   Turn a repeatable reporting method into reusable instructions and test its behaviour.

2. Plugins and business systems

   Map approved connections, data flows and action boundaries for a useful business workflow.

3. Browser use and building apps

   Scope a bounded browser task and design and test a lightweight private app preview where available.

4. Models, cost and orchestration

   Compare quality, human effort and usage to choose an appropriate approach for the task.

5. Security, governance and scale

   Build a pilot charter, control register and rollout recommendation with accountable owners.

Your classroom build

Teams build a controlled prototype or reviewed design, run failure scenarios and defend a pilot go/no-go recommendation. No production rollout is required.

Required pre-work: review the assigned MicOS preparation, complete the account/access check and bring a non-confidential work challenge. Complete the Intermediate pathway or demonstrate equivalent experience.

Have ideas but struggle to turn them into visuals? Learn to brief AI, create images and shape a short video concept with guided practice.

You leave with: A creative brief, a small set of campaign visuals and a storyboard for a short social video.

1. Creative AI essentials

   Understand where AI helps, where human judgement matters and how to evaluate a result.

2. Write a creative brief

   Define your audience, message, visual direction and a clear deliverable.

3. Prompt for images

   Describe subject, composition, lighting and style; compare and refine variations.

4. Edit and stay on brand

   Use approved references, improve details and prepare visuals for different formats.

5. From image to video

   Plan a simple sequence, write shot prompts and explore a short AI-generated clip.

6. Build and review

   Present your campaign starter kit and check accuracy, permissions and brand fit.

Required pre-work: Complete the introductory material and account checks. Bring a non-confidential brief or use our fictional training campaign. No prior creative AI experience is required.

One good image is not a campaign. Build a consistent visual direction and take it through storyboards, video and social formats.

You leave with: A coordinated campaign asset set and a short edited social video, supported by a repeatable production workflow.

1. Concept development

   Explore distinct creative routes and choose one against the brief.

2. Visual consistency

   Build a reference pack and refine a coherent look across multiple assets.

3. Storyboards and shot planning

   Translate a message into a clear narrative, shot list and production plan.

4. Generate and refine video

   Practise motion prompts, continuity checks and selective iteration.

5. Edit for the channel

   Combine selected clips, captions and cleared sound into a focused social edit.

6. Campaign delivery

   Adapt formats, peer-review the campaign and document the workflow for reuse.

Required pre-work: Complete the assigned preparation and tool-access checks. Bring a sample image or campaign concept. Complete Beginner or demonstrate equivalent image-generation experience.

Move from individual assets to a controlled production process. Lead a campaign from creative direction through quality review and handover.

You leave with: A campaign prototype, a reusable creative production playbook and a review-ready delivery pack.

1. Creative direction systems

   Define a campaign bible covering audience, story, visual language and acceptance criteria.

2. Complex sequences

   Plan multi-shot scenes, reference continuity and a deliberate iteration strategy.

3. Production workflow design

   Organise briefs, prompts, assets, versions and human approval points.

4. Quality and efficiency

   Compare outputs, track time and generation costs, and decide what to regenerate or edit.

5. Responsible delivery

   Build practical checks for permissions, likenesses, claims, disclosure and brand approval.

6. Capstone and handover

   Present a complete campaign prototype with a production playbook and rollout recommendations.

Required pre-work: Complete the advanced preparation and account checks. Bring an existing creative workflow and approved reference assets, or use our training pack. Complete Intermediate or demonstrate equivalent experience.