Copilot Jumpstart
Save Hours Every Week with Microsoft 365 Copilot
For Business Users
You’re already spending your day in Teams meetings, buried in Outlook emails, working in Excel, and digging through SharePoint.
Now imagine if Copilot actually helped with all of that.
Not in a “cool demo” way… but in a real, every day, this-actually-saves-you-time kind of way.
That’s exactly what this class is about.
This is not a technical deep dive. You’re not going to build apps, write code, or configure anything complicated.
Instead, you’re going to learn hands-on how to use Microsoft 365 Copilot the way real business users are using it today to get more done, faster, with less effort.
If you can write an email, you can use everything in this class.
Course at a Glance:
6 Hour Course
5 Lessons
Certificate of Completion
Time for Questions
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this training, you’ll know how to:
Use Copilot Chat to research, summarize, and create content in seconds
Turn Copilot into a true assistant that can do work for you (not just answer questions)
Save time every day in Teams, Outlook, and Excel
Automatically organize and extract data from your SharePoint documents
Get better results from Copilot by learning how to “talk to it” the right way
What We’ll Cover
We’ll focus on the tools that are delivering the biggest productivity gains right now:
Copilot Chat
Your starting point. Learn how to quickly research, summarize, and create content. We’ll also show you how to get dramatically better results just by changing how you prompt it.
You’ll also get a look at the built-in agents like Researcher and Analyst for deeper insights.
Hands-on lab: Create a new company policy using Copilot to help you from research to creation to notifying the team.
Copilot Cowork
This is where things get interesting.
Copilot stops being something you chat with… and starts doing real work for you.
You’ll learn how to:
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Create and update documents automatically
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Research companies, contacts, and opportunities
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Build simple reusable skills (no technical experience required)
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Schedule tasks to run even when you’re not there
Hands-on lab: Give Cowork some news sites, say go check them for Copilot news in the last week, and create a Word Doc executive summary.
Copilot in Teams, Outlook, and Excel
These are the tools you use every day, so this is where you’ll see some of the fastest wins.
We’ll cover:
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Meeting recaps that actually save you time
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Writing better emails in less time
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Using Excel Copilot to analyze data and build insights
Hands-on lab: Take a real Excel dataset and use Copilot to turn it into something meaningful by adding columns, formulas, formatting, and a dashboard.
SharePoint AI Tools
Your files and content are sitting in SharePoint. Now you can actually do something with them.
We’ll show you how to:
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Use Knowledge Agents to chat over your content
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Use AI Columns to extract structured data from documents
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Create repeatable “skills” to automate content processing
Real-World Examples That are Driving this Course
This isn’t theory. These are real scenarios from real roles:
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A sales advisor using Copilot to research old leads, enrich them with web data, and generate a clean summary document
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A marketing professional analyzing trends and building better reports using Excel Copilot
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A project leader organizing hundreds of documents using SharePoint AI to extract and standardize information
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A customer keeping track of a competitor with Cowork
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An instructor using Teams and Copilot to improve meetings, follow-ups, and communication
You’ll see exactly how these work and how to apply them to your job.
For Makers: Learn How to Use Copilot in Real Work
This course is built for people who want to use Microsoft 365 Copilot with confidence. You’ll learn practical ways to save time, create better content, work with your files, and get more value from the tools you already use every day.
Use Copilot Chat to research, summarize, and create content faster
Get better answers by learning how to write clearer prompts
Save time in Teams, Outlook, Excel, and SharePoint
See real examples you can apply right away in your own job
Requirements
To get the full hands-on experience, you’ll need a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
You can still attend without one and learn the concepts, but most of the features demonstrated require M365 Copilot to use.
Features may vary slightly based on your tenant, region, and IT policies.
Who This Course is For:
This course is ideal for anyone eager to start learning and preparing for the integration of Copilot into their organization. This session will equip you with the knowledge and skills to harness the power of Copilot effectively.
IT professional
Company owner
Project manager
HR Manager who wants to understand what Copilot means for the organization and its policies and procedures.
Anyone - if you are passionate about improving your everyday productivity.
Meet Your Instructor
Shane Young
Power Apps MVP
Shane Young has been a Microsoft MVP since 2005 and was named one of the first Power Apps and Flow MVPs. Over those almost 20 years he has been on the forefront of technology change. Leading with SharePoint and then moving to Power Apps and Power Automate. Now, he is continuing that technology ride by fully embracing Copilot and other AI tools. He sees them as a logical next step for low code builders to grow and to continue to build awesome things. When Shane is not teaching or consulting, you can find him chasing his very active children all over the city of Cincinnati. And of course Buddy the 🐶 is always at his side. Man, that dog loves car rides.