AI TrainingFor teams and leaders
AI Prompting for editors & authors
For writing and editorial teams who produce published, reviewed and style-governed documents.
- Intermediate
- Editorial teams, Authors, Communications
What you leave with
- Draft, edit, summarise and re-tone documents with AI while keeping editorial control
- Apply your own house style through prompts and templates
- Build reusable personas and agents so the same editorial standard is applied every time
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Course breakdown
- 01
Foundations & Responsible use
Introduction to Generative AI: the evolution of AI · What an LLM isShow all 8 topicsHide topics
- Introduction to Generative AI: the evolution of AI
- What an LLM is
- Hallucinations and how to avoid them
- Privacy and responsible AI use: chatbots versus Microsoft 365 Copilot
- The Microsoft Graph
- Staff guidelines
- Data protection
- Ethics
- 02
Copilot Chat & Copilot in Word
Copilot Chat: where to find it · The interfaceShow all 8 topicsHide topics
- Copilot Chat: where to find it
- The interface
- Work Mode and Web Mode
- Pages and Canvas
- Use case: blog drafting in AI Canvas from communication officer notes
- Copilot in Word: draft, ground, rewrite and re-tone
- Visualise, in document and in the chat pane
- Use case: executive summary using Edit Mode
- 03
Prompting
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- Prompting through practice: the four essential parts of a prompt
- The four questions
- Golden tips
- 10 best practices
- How Gen AI reads prompts
- Use case: summarising text and documents
- 04
Editorial Workflows & Templates
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- Tackling repeated tasks: prompt libraries
- Design and template limitations
- Template filling
- Track changes: the inbuilt options plus a document change tracker use case
- Practical editorial use cases: report editing against a house style guide
- Content tagging
- Metadata and titling
- Stakeholder communications
- Templates and structured reports: meeting minutes from a transcript
- Presentation content with speaker notes
- 05
Personalisation & AI Agents
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- Personalisation: custom instructions
- Traits
- Memory
- When to use which
- From repeated tasks to AI agents: contextual prompting
- Advanced persona design
- Social media posts with a human in the loop
- Meta prompting
- Use case: a prompt improving agent
- Use case: grounded Q&A from a document
- Use case: an HR policy assistant agent
- 06
Appendix
By request: Copilot in Excel
Outcome
Participants leave able to draft, edit, summarise and re-tone documents with AI while keeping editorial control, apply their own house style through prompts and templates, and build reusable personas and agents so the same editorial standard is applied every time rather than re-explained on every task.
2 x half day workshopPractical training sessions
1-6 people
€900
7-12 people
€1,100
