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Copilot Strategy Lab: Effective Prompting to Drive Business Outcomes (AIW-COP55)

3 hours
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Copilot Strategy Lab: Effective Prompting to Drive Business Outcomes is a practical, hands-on class for managers, team leads, business owners, and professionals who want to use Microsoft Copilot more strategically in everyday business work.

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Course Overview

Copilot Strategy Lab: Effective Prompting to Drive Business Outcomes is a practical, hands-on class for managers, team leads, business owners, and professionals who want to use Microsoft Copilot more strategically in everyday business work. In this 3-hour session, participants will learn how to move beyond basic prompts and guide Copilot like a junior analyst, using clear goals, context, audience, tone, structure, and iteration to produce more useful outputs. Through business-focused examples in areas such as marketing research, product research, competitor analysis, communication, planning, and strategic recommendations, attendees will learn repeatable prompting methods they can apply immediately to improve productivity, sharpen decision support, and help their teams get better results from AI-assisted work.

*The free June 9th, 2026 class is part of Microsoft's AI Skills Fest June 8-12, 2026.

Course Benefits

  • Understand how to use Copilot as a productivity and thinking tool while maintaining human judgment and accountability
  • Know when to use Copilot for exploration, drafting, summarizing, analysis, and work inside Microsoft 365 apps
  • Write clearer prompts that produce more relevant, useful, and business-ready outputs
  • Use structured prompting methods to improve consistency across teams and common business tasks
  • Refine Copilot responses through practical follow-up prompts instead of accepting the first result
  • Apply Copilot to real workplace scenarios such as communications, planning, research, and analysis
  • Use Copilot to support marketing research, product evaluation, competitor research, and strategic thinking
  • Identify risks, assumptions, missing information, and possible inaccuracies in AI-generated outputs

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Course Outline

  1. Copilot Foundations
    1. What Copilot Is
    2. What Copilot Is Not
    3. AI Accuracy and Review
  2. Choosing the Right Copilot Tool
    1. Web Copilot Uses
    2. Microsoft 365 Copilot Uses
  3. Prompting Fundamentals
    1. Clear Goals
    2. Useful Context
    3. Audience and Tone
    4. Output Format
  4. Core Prompting Skills
    1. Be Explicit
    2. Provide Examples
    3. Use Frameworks
    4. Iterate and Refine
  5. Copilot as a Junior Analyst
    1. Assign the Task
    2. Set Expectations
    3. Review the Output
    4. Improve the Response
  6. Prompting Methods
    1. Context, Task, Instructions, Output
    2. Goal, Context, Audience, Tone, Format
    3. Verb, Subject, Audience, Tone, Format
    4. Role, Audience, Style, Business Context
    5. Beginning, Middle, End
  7. Long Document Workflows
    1. Summarize First
    2. Narrow the Focus
    3. Work by Section
    4. Transform the Output
  8. Business Prompting Practice
    1. Marketing Research
    2. Product Research
    3. Competitor Research
    4. Strategic Recommendations

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

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