Microsoft Copilot training for your staff
Day Seven runs practical, hands-on Microsoft 365 Copilot training for teams in UK organisations, from six people and ideally 10 or more. Your team learns to use Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint on the work they already do: emails, documents, spreadsheets, meetings and slides. You'll also agree clear rules on what company data goes in. Training is instructor-led, at your offices anywhere in the UK or live online.
In short
- For teams in UK organisations, from six people and ideally 10 or more
- Up to 15 people per workshop, with multiple sessions for larger groups
- Delivered on-site anywhere in the UK, or live online
- One full day of about six hours, or two half-days; a half-day team workshop is the smallest engagement
- A scoping call confirms tools, licences, tasks and format before anything is booked
- From £450 per seat + VAT for a place on an open course, or from £6,750 per day + VAT for up to 15 people for a private team session; your proposal confirms the exact price after scoping. See what AI training costs
Who is Microsoft Copilot training for?
It's for teams that already have Microsoft 365 Copilot, or are about to roll it out, and want people using it properly on everyday work rather than leaving licences unused. Typically that means:
- Operations, department and team leads in UK organisations who want their teams using Copilot well on everyday work, through a focused programme rather than a long one
- Business teams rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot licences
- L&D and IT leads running internal Copilot enablement
- Managers and analysts who live in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- HR, operations and finance teams who handle email and meetings all day
No technical background is needed. The training is built for business users, not developers.
What does the training cover?
Practice is built around the Copilot features your team can actually access on its current licences.
Copilot in Outlook. Catch up on a long email thread, draft a reply in your own tone, and keep track of what still needs a response.
Copilot in Word. Draft, rewrite and summarise a typical report or proposal, and save the prompts that worked for reuse.
Copilot in Excel. Clean, summarise or explain a real (non-sensitive) dataset your team uses. Get help with formulas and analysis.
Copilot in Teams. Turn a recorded or transcribed meeting into a clear summary with decisions and owned actions. Summarise chats you've missed.
Copilot in PowerPoint. Generate slides, speaker notes and rewrites from existing material.
Copilot Chat and OneNote. These can be included on request.
Writing prompts that work. How to brief Copilot for drafting, summarising and analysing, and how to check and fix an answer that is nearly right.
Copilot readiness check. Before the day, we review your Copilot readiness with you: which tools your people can sign in to, which Copilot features their current licences include, which use cases to focus on, and the data and permissions points to be aware of, such as what content Copilot can reach through your existing file-sharing permissions. That way practice matches what they'll have on Monday. Licence provisioning and tenant configuration stay with your IT team or Microsoft partner. If you're still piloting Copilot, we can run a demo-led version using our environment and tailor the hands-on parts later. Our free AI Readiness Scorecard takes about three minutes and checks strategy, tools, skills, adoption and governance.
Data and security. Working safely with company data, sensitivity labels and Copilot guardrails: what to keep out of prompts, how to check output before you rely on it, and how this fits your AI policy. If personal data is involved, UK GDPR still applies. Our employee AI policy guide covers what a workable policy includes.
Real-work exercises. Every session uses your own (non-sensitive) examples, not generic demos. These are illustrative exercises; we agree the scope and outputs with you before booking:
- A document workflow: drafting, rewriting and summarising a typical report or proposal in Word, with the prompts saved for reuse
- A meeting workflow: turning a recorded or transcribed meeting into a clear summary, decisions and owned actions
- An email and inbox workflow: catching up on a long thread, drafting a reply in your own tone, and tracking what needs a response
- A working example in Excel: cleaning, summarising or explaining a real (non-sensitive) dataset your team uses
- A shared prompt library and a short guardrails note covering what to keep out of prompts
How is Copilot training delivered?
| Format | How it works | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| On-site in the UK | A Day Seven trainer comes to your office; travel within the UK is agreed up front | Teams who work together in one location |
| Live online | Instructor-led sessions over video, with hands-on exercises | Hybrid teams or several sites |
| Half-day or full day | A half-day team workshop, one full day of about six hours, or two half-days | Fitting training around your week |
| Follow-up | A prompt library, an adoption plan and check-in sessions can be scoped in; we agree in writing what is included | Making the habits stick |
| Self-paced | Microsoft 365 Copilot Essentials in the Day Seven Academy: 8 modules, 11 to 13 hours, beginner level, with marked tasks, a practice Playground and Seven, an AI tutor. Seats are set up for your organisation | Staff with the standard Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, before or after a workshop |
All instructor-led Copilot training is run privately for your organisation.
What will my team be able to do afterwards?
By the end, attendees can:
- Use Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint on two or three tasks your business agreed at scoping
- Write a clear brief, then check and improve Copilot's answer before using it
- Say what company and personal data should never go into a prompt
- Reuse a shared prompt library built during the session
How to tell whether it worked:
- Agree at scoping which two or three tasks the training should make faster or easier.
- Compare the time taken and the quality of output on one selected task, before and after.
- Capture a simple confidence rating from attendees before and after the session.
- Ask managers a month later whether the agreed tasks are being done with Copilot, and how often.
- Keep the shared prompt library as a visible sign of use. An empty library a month on is a useful signal in itself.
Our guide on measuring AI training ROI sets this out in more detail.
Build your own Copilot agents with Copilot Studio
Once your team is confident with Copilot day to day, the next step is building agents around your own workflows. In our hands-on Copilot Studio workshops, your people design, build and test their own agents on real tasks, with a trainer alongside them. Examples of agents teams can build:
- HR policy Q&A: an agent that answers staff questions from your own policy documents
- Onboarding: guiding new starters through first-week tasks, key contacts and documents
- IT helpdesk triage: gathering the right details and pointing people to the right fix or team
- Sales and bid prep: pulling together customer background, past answers and first drafts
We agree use cases and scope with you before booking. Licensing, environments and publishing stay with your IT team or Microsoft partner.
Rolling out Copilot across the business
We help you plan a Copilot rollout around your people: readiness, role-based training, champions and follow-up so licences get used.
See our Copilot rollout training plan and AI adoption and enablement support.
We also build Copilot agents, including in Copilot Studio. See AI agents.
How is this different from Microsoft's free resources and generic courses?
Microsoft's free resources are a good starting point. Microsoft Learn has modules such as "Work smarter with AI" and the "Empower your workforce with Microsoft Copilot" learning path, and they explain what the product does. Use them. Their limit is that they're self-study and the same for everyone. They aren't built around your documents, your tone of voice or your data rules, and nobody checks how your team actually uses Copilot.
Generic Copilot courses and videos teach product features. We tailor every session to your use cases, your data and your tone of voice. You leave with prompt libraries, templates and a clear adoption plan, not just a list of features.
Day Seven training is:
- Live and instructor-led, with hands-on practice on your own work
- Scoped to the Copilot features your licences actually include
- Tied to two or three agreed tasks, so there's something concrete to measure
- Vendor-neutral. If part of your team also uses ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, we can train on those too. See Claude vs ChatGPT for business for how teams choose.
What we need from you beforehand
- A short scoping call to agree the tools your team uses, the tasks that matter and the format that fits your week
- Confirmation that attendees can sign in to Copilot on their current plan or licences before the day
- Two or three real, non-sensitive examples per team (a typical document, report or email thread) so exercises use your own work
- A named internal contact for room, kit and joining details, plus anything your IT or security team needs to approve first
How to book Microsoft Copilot training
- 1Tell us about your team. Contact us: who needs training, the tools they have licences for, and the tasks that take the most time. If you're comparing providers, send our buyer brief to each of them.
- 2Scoping call. A short conversation to confirm tools, licences, tasks and format. No obligation to book.
- 3Written proposal. It covers format, content, delivery and price. A place on an open course starts from £450 per seat + VAT, and a private team session from £6,750 per day + VAT for up to 15 people.
- 4Training day. Most programmes begin within two to four weeks of the initial consultation.
We reply within one working day.
Where we deliver Copilot training
Day Seven is based in Leeds and trains teams at their own offices across the UK, or live online:
Microsoft Copilot training: FAQs
Not sure which tool to train on first? Read our guide: Copilot vs Claude vs ChatGPT training. Rolling out Copilot? See our Copilot rollout training plan.
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