Using Copilot Effectively

Unlock Your Business Potential with Microsoft Copilot

A 3-Hour Power Workshop for Small Business Owners

Why Attend?

For anyone working in or owning a small business it means having to wear many hats. What if you could save hours each week by letting AI handle the heavy lifting? This workshop shows you how Microsoft Copilot can become your digital sidekick—helping you work smarter, faster, and with more confidence.

You’ll learn the differences between the free and paid for versions of CoPilot and how to use Copilot in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, One Drive and across Microsoft 365 to save huge amounts of your time and become more efficient and effective in your work.

What You’ll Learn

Tame your inbox: Summarise emails, extract tasks, and reply instantly with Copilot in Outlook.

Master your data: Build formulas, analyse trends, and create dashboards in Excel—without being a spreadsheet wizard.

Create standout content: Draft documents, format proposals, and summarise reports in Word.

Present like a pro: Build engaging presentations with speaker notes in PowerPoint, even from a blank slide.

Stay on top of everything: Summarise meetings, chats, and files in Teams and SharePoint, and turn them into action plans.

Automate your workflows: Learn how to create simple bots and agents to handle repetitive tasks.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is designed for users new to Microsoft Copilot who are currently juggling multiple tasks, up against time restrictions and would like to increase efficiency and boost productivity

By the end of the session, you’ll be able to:

• Summarise project/customer files in seconds
• Summarise long emails in seconds
• Extract tasks from emails, documents and meetings instantly
• Find content across Microsoft 365 in seconds
• Manage your Inbox effectively every day
• Analyse data and gain deep insights into data in Excel
• Streamline communication and collaboration in Teams
• Create formulas in Excel instantly
• Create and format content in seconds in Word
• Create new Excel workbooks
• Create engaging presentations with speaker notes in PowerPoint

This session is open to any business trading in Leicester and Leicestershire and is funded by Leicester City Council and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.