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Skilling goals for Copilot for Microsoft 365
Hey friends,
Copilot is a technology and to truly adopt any new technology there are different areas that needs to be learnt and made into natural skills. Prompting is one skill that is needed, as well as other types of skills, or learning goals. One of these other skills is to learn to "work out loud" in Teams channels, contra collaborate in email and private chats in Teams, another is understanding of where data is stored/shared, as well as understanding how Copilot for Microsoft 365 is integrated with the different Microsoft 365 applications.
Are there any experience and examples of skill sets or learning goals for adopting Copilot for Microsoft 365 (and other Copilots)?
MeretheStave Hey Merethe, really good question. What I'm seeing is that Copilot ends up being a catalyst for larger conversations about how people work at all levels across an organisation.
Here's a quick brain dump (might add more later) - I might pose these as questions rather than specific skills because I really believe a lot of this comes down to workplace culture (e.g. Ways of Working agreements, attitudes, mindset, and then the skills associated too).
Personal/individual use
- How well can I articulate/communicate what I want to a junior employee? (this will translate to how you prompt)
- Do I have a structured approach to my work that makes it easier for others to work with me? (again, treat Copilot like a junior colleague)
- Am I aware of the different tools available to me in the M365 suite and how I can use them?
- Am I looking for ways to improve my personal productivity workflows?
Team/collaboration
- Do we have an agreed way to collaborate and a common set of tools for our specific Team?
- Are our files stored centrally in a structure that makes sense?
- Do we have good naming conventions?
- Will we record our meetings?
Corporate/leadership/governance
- Do we have a structured way of presenting our organizational strategy?
- Do we have a way of linking value of a productivity tool to overall organization objectives?
- Do we know how to lead through change?
- Do we have the right data governance in place?
- Do we have the right risk controls and management in place?
- Do our employees trust our systems?
- How well do we understand how our people use the Microsoft 365 suite and do we have the right governance and policies in place to support how they want to work.
MeretheStave Hey Merethe, really good question. What I'm seeing is that Copilot ends up being a catalyst for larger conversations about how people work at all levels across an organisation.
Here's a quick brain dump (might add more later) - I might pose these as questions rather than specific skills because I really believe a lot of this comes down to workplace culture (e.g. Ways of Working agreements, attitudes, mindset, and then the skills associated too).
Personal/individual use
- How well can I articulate/communicate what I want to a junior employee? (this will translate to how you prompt)
- Do I have a structured approach to my work that makes it easier for others to work with me? (again, treat Copilot like a junior colleague)
- Am I aware of the different tools available to me in the M365 suite and how I can use them?
- Am I looking for ways to improve my personal productivity workflows?
Team/collaboration
- Do we have an agreed way to collaborate and a common set of tools for our specific Team?
- Are our files stored centrally in a structure that makes sense?
- Do we have good naming conventions?
- Will we record our meetings?
Corporate/leadership/governance
- Do we have a structured way of presenting our organizational strategy?
- Do we have a way of linking value of a productivity tool to overall organization objectives?
- Do we know how to lead through change?
- Do we have the right data governance in place?
- Do we have the right risk controls and management in place?
- Do our employees trust our systems?
- How well do we understand how our people use the Microsoft 365 suite and do we have the right governance and policies in place to support how they want to work.
HelloBenTeoh Exactly! and I like the way you set it up; what am I learning relevant and in the context of my loop (my personal knowledge/my stuff), our loop (in a team/department/project) and our wider loop (as organization). I think we're onto something here! 🙂
MeretheStave The way you phrased it there also reminded me of the MOCA too... it's all coming together haha
- Kindly refer https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/ "Technical Readiness" this is very useful in driving adoption of Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Thank you Ankur_B, yes, these are all good, for those responsible for implementing the solution and responsible for the adoption. However, these resources are not quite covering what I would suggest are important skilling for the end users. It is very focused on product and tools. For successful adoption it will require other skills as well, as I mentioned in my initial post. For inspiration, please see: https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/oldpage-digcomp/digcomp-framework_en
- Check this out
Free Masterclass - https://www.netcomlearning.com/webinar/Microsoft-365-Copilot-Masterclass-Unleashing-Productivity-with-AI?utm_source=Microsoft-365-Copilot-Community&advid=1593
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/craft-effective-prompts-copilot-microsoft-365/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/create-images-with-generative-ai/
