Mastering Copilot: Practical AI for Business Productivity

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Practical insights on adopting Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI tools for real business impact. Learn how to identify quick wins, improve productivity, and master prompt engineering for better results.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/766

🔑 What you’ll learn 

• How AI is reshaping workflows and productivity tools 
• Practical Copilot use cases for Outlook, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint 
• Why adoption programs and training matter for AI success 
• Techniques for effective prompt engineering 
• How to document processes quickly using Teams and Copilot 

👉 Highlights 

• "We're seeing a lot more summarization, a lot more drafting." 
• "Agentic is coming through with agents and agent-to-agent communication." 
• "You don't need to deploy it to everybody." 
• "It's really something that you need to have that adoption program in place." 
• "Prompt engineering does play a big role in it." 
• "How you use Copilot in Word is very different to how you use Copilot in Outlook." 
• "My daily one probably starts off in Outlook, summarizing the emails overnight." 
• "Create a presentation from a document." 
• "Teams transcripts are great." 
• "Copilot gives you that structure, that outline, and it's really quick." 
• "The design aspect has improved, that's kind of cool." 
• "Copilot for M365 is really aimed at the business user." 

🧰 Mentioned 

• Microsoft 365 Copilot - https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot 
• Grammarly - https://www.grammarly.com 
• Cloudflare - https://www.cloudflare.com 
• Danielbrown.id.au - https://danielbrown.id.au 
• Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7 

✅Keywords
ai adoption, microsoft 365 copilot, outlook productivity, teams transcripts, prompt engineering, power bi, word summarization, powerpoint design, bizchat, azure hosting, process documentation, business workflows 

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