Copilot training and e-learning for an engineering company
Client: Machine builder and steel construction company in the west of the Netherlands, with office, engineering and workshop
The challenge
The company wanted its employees to learn to work with Microsoft Copilot. Shortly before the training, the group turned out to be mixed: some had only Microsoft 365 Business Basic with Copilot Chat, others a full Copilot licence.
Approach
- Training in two 2-hour sessions with a practice period of four to six weeks in between
- One programme for both groups: session 1 in the chat for everyone, session 2 on what a licence adds, with a variant of every exercise for both situations
- Participants worked in pairs, always one with and one without a licence
- Practice files from their own sector with fictitious data: an order overview, a project file and sample emails
- Adoption treated as a behavioural question: knowing why, wanting to, being able to and keeping it up
Prompting well: give context
Role, goal, context and format. The more Copilot knows, the more useful the answer.
Delivered
- Training deck of 58 slides with twelve exercises and extensive trainer notes
- E-learning for reference, one module per session, protected with an access code
- A licence label per topic, so every participant sees what works for them
- Short knowledge checks with an explanation after each answer
What we learned
Don’t measure the number of prompts, measure how many people have three recurring AI tasks. And never present a licence gap as a shortfall, but as an insight: which jobs justify a more expensive licence?
Phase 1: Start