Put It to Work
numbers, knowledge, the chain.

The report is due at 10. The numbers are in Excel, the context is in a thread, the last version is "somewhere in Teams." You are the integration layer.

Copying between apps, reconciling versions, chasing context — that's a job description nobody signed. Day 2 is about retiring from it.

You'll walk out able to…

• 1Analyse a worksheet with Copilot — trends, formula columns, charts — and verify the working
• 2Get grounded answers from your own files, mail and meetings, with sources you can check
• 3Chain Copilot outputs across apps to run a full workflow end to end
• 4Leave with one of your real tasks rebuilt around Copilot — and the habit to keep it

Four sessions.

It's the 28th. Somewhere in the bank, someone is about to spend four hours doing exactly what they did on the 28th of last month.

Filter, pivot, eyeball, retype. The monthly grind isn't analysis — it's ceremony. The analysis is the five minutes at the end.

An analyst pulling up a chair — who shows their working.

Analyse → Add → Visualise.

Copilot in Excel finds trends, writes formula columns, and builds charts — on your table, with the formulas visible. That last part matters: if you can't see the working, you can't check it.

Ask the worksheet.

Break — back in 15.

Tap the ☕ in the nav bar to run the timer.

"Didn't we answer this exact question in March?" Somewhere, in some file, in some folder — yes. Forty minutes of your life says you'll find it.

The answer exists. That was never the problem. Finding it, across files, mail and meetings, is the problem.

Asking the office — not a person.

Grounded chat.

Copilot Chat, on the Work tab, answers from your Microsoft 365 world — files, mail, meetings and chats you already have permission to see. Grounded answers arrive with sources. No source? Treat it as a guess.

Catch up in one prompt.

Lunch & prayer — back at 11:45.

Tap the ☕ in the nav bar to run the timer.

The meeting ended at 10:30. The follow-up email went out at 4:50. Six hours between a decision and its paper trail.

Recap, actions, email, deck — four artifacts, one source, and an afternoon of "I'll get to it." The chain closes that gap to minutes.

A relay race — the output is the baton.

The chain.

Every Copilot output can be the next prompt's source. Recap the meeting; extract actions from the recap; draft the email from the actions; build the deck from the email. One workflow, four handoffs, minutes not hours.

Run the chain.

Quick break — back in 10.

Tap the ☕ in the nav bar to run the timer.

Think of the task you dread on Monday mornings. The one you've done so often you could do it asleep — and mostly do.

That task is your capstone. Not our scenario — yours. The next fifty minutes belong to it.

You've done the lessons. These are the keys.

The habit loop.

Brief → Draft → Check → Ship. Write the CTFT prompt, run it, verify it like a checker, ship it. Then save the prompt and run it again next week — that second run is where the habit is born.

The capstone brief.

You are no longer the integration layer.

Two days ago Copilot was an icon. Now it drafts your documents, reads your numbers, briefs you from your own files and runs your follow-ups. Keep the cheat sheet open, keep the checker's eye — and ship.