# Mastering Microsoft Copilot for Productivity

> Get real value from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams while keeping company data safe.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Data, AI & Digital Skills
- **Duration:** 3 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/data-ai-digital/mastering-microsoft-copilot-for-productivity
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=mastering-microsoft-copilot-for-productivity

## Overview

Copilot licences are expensive, and many organisations find that staff use them for little more than rewriting emails. This hands-on course shows people how to build Copilot into daily work: drafting documents from source files, analysing spreadsheets, preparing presentations, catching up on meetings and managing an inbox. Participants practise on realistic tasks and learn the data-protection settings that keep confidential information where it belongs.

## Who should attend

- Microsoft 365 users whose organisation has Copilot licences
- Managers and executive assistants handling heavy email and meeting loads
- Analysts and report writers
- IT champions supporting a Copilot rollout

## Learning outcomes

- Write effective Copilot prompts in each Microsoft 365 app
- Draft, summarise and rework documents from your own files
- Use Copilot in Excel to explore data and build formulas
- Run meetings and inboxes more efficiently with Copilot in Teams and Outlook
- Apply sensitivity labels and sharing rules so Copilot only sees what it should

## Course outline

### Module 1: Copilot fundamentals

- How Copilot uses Microsoft Graph and your permissions
- Prompting patterns that work in Microsoft 365
- Copilot Chat versus in-app Copilot
- Data protection, sensitivity labels and POPIA

### Module 2: Documents, data and presentations

- Drafting and restructuring in Word
- Analysing tables and writing formulas in Excel
- Building presentations from a brief in PowerPoint
- Checking accuracy and citing sources

### Module 3: Meetings, email and team workflows

- Meeting recaps, action items and follow-ups in Teams
- Triage and drafting in Outlook
- Agents, Pages and shared prompt libraries
- Measuring time saved and planning adoption