The Great Microsoft 365 Copilot Journey: Empower Your Team with Copilot

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Your organization has implemented Microsoft 365 Copilot and you’re excited to see how it can transform the way your business works. Embracing a new way of working can be an exciting opportunity for growth and improvement but it also brings challenges. Finding time to learn how to use Copilot and seamlessly integrating it into daily routines can take time. In fact, 62% of end users noting that lack of time to learn is their biggest challenge¹, which means effective onboarding and continuous support are important to driving successful adoption. So, how can you overcome those hurdles and help your team build daily Copilot habits?  

Introducing the Great Copilot Journey—a comprehensive onboarding and skill-building experience designed to help your team learn how to achieve more with Copilot, one prompt at a time. Designed as a low-lift, 30-day experience, it offers weekly themes with daily prompts to showcase how users can get inspired, amplify productivity, collaborate with ease, and so much more. Along the way, they’ll learn best practices and how to build an effective prompt to ensure they can fully leverage Copilot's capabilities. Additionally, sparking fun and delight at work is one of the top influences that help drive usage, so the Great Copilot Journey also includes fun uses for Copilot each week.

Explore the Benefits of the Great Copilot Journey

The Great Copilot Journey is specifically designed to tackle the challenges of adopting a new tool into your daily work. Users are eased in by slowly building skills one prompt at a time, without requiring big blocks of dedicated learning time. In fact, daily users of Copilot are 2x more inclined to increase their usage in the next 60 days over users who only leverage Copilot weekly or monthly². The Great Copilot Journey offers quick and easy guidance in small chunks to create a seamless, steady flow of knowledge instead of feeling of information overload.  Plus, small daily successes and fun use cases help users maintain excitement and trust that Copilot will positively impact their work.

The Great Copilot Journey Weekly Themes

Every week, the Great Copilot Journey will focus on a different benefit of Copilot—and every day, users will receive a single task to practice. As the journey continues and users build their Copilot skills, tasks will get more complex. Here are the six themes for each week:

Week One: Managing Time with Copilot

• There are never enough hours in the day, but instead of working longer what if we could just have an assistant at our fingertips to help save time? The first week of the Great Copilot Journey is all about leveraging Copilot to catch up, prioritize, summarize, and get answers faster.

Week Two: Supercharging Creativity with Copilot

• A blank page or lack of ideas can be an all too familiar starting point. In week two, users will explore the ways that Copilot can help them get ideas, improve their writing, start a deck, and draft documents.

Week Three: Expanding Expertise with Copilot

• Since Copilot taps into the knowledge system of the AI model, grounded in your work data and data from the web, week three is a great time to leverage Copilot to expand your expertise and skills. This week will help users simplify, analyze, get answers, and find information more easily.

Week Four: Enhancing Collaboration with Copilot

• Productive teamwork is essential, and Copilot can enhance your collaboration experience in a variety of ways. Week four will help users work better together by highlighting action items, guiding brainstorms, and so much more.

Week Five: Creating agents in Copilot Chat

• Users can step up their Copilot game in week five by creating their own agents in Copilot Chat. Think of agents as the apps of the AI world - they use AI to automate and execute business processes, working alongside or on behalf of users. Agents can help users craft the perfect prompt, get writing assistance, and more.

Week Six: Applying Skills with Copilot

• In the final week of the Great Copilot Journey, users will leverage their learned skills across all Microsoft 365 apps and get access to additional resources. They will apply the skills in a fun and creative project and once the journey’s complete, users will also earn a completion badge to celebrate their achievement.

How it Works

There are four different ways you can execute the Great Copilot Journey, tailored to your company’s needs. You can also choose to execute it as a 30-day experience with daily tasks, a 6-week experience with weekly sets of tasks, or let your users experience it at their own pace. Here’s how:

• Download the Great Copilot Journey Starter Kit: Get a suite of daily and/or weekly email templates in OFT format that you can personalize and execute on your own. This is a great option if you’d like to be more tailored in your communications to your end users and apply the prompt exercises to relevant scenarios in your business. Download the kit here.
• The Great Copilot Journey web experience: If letting you’re your users take the Great Copilot Journey at their own pace is important, this web experience has all 30 prompts available for users to experience as they choose. Check it out here.
• The Great Copilot Journey infographic: Inspire your team with this all-in-one infographic that showcases the entire journey from start to finish. This is a great option if you want provide a full view of the Great Copilot Journey or if you want to print and share the graphic in your office. Get it here.
• Coming Soon:
  • Opt into emails executed by Microsoft: Looking for a more hands-off approach? Then the Microsoft end user onboarding experience is the right choice for your team. Coming in early 2025, if you opt your users in to receiving promotional emails from Microsoft, they will automatically receive the Great Copilot Journey as a weekly email experience.
  • Microsoft training events: Coming in spring 2025, you can also experience a one-hour training event as an introduction to the Great Copilot Journey or offer it as a stand-alone training for your users.

Start your Great Copilot Journey

Are you ready to onboard your organization and make the most of Copilot? Take the Great Copilot Journey and inspire your team to adopt a new, productive way of working. Connect with your Microsoft team today for tailored strategies to power your rollout and drive seamless change management for your business.

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¹, ²: Enterprise Early Adopter Insights for Copilot in Microsoft 365, May 2024