The Copilot Chronicle - Weekly Roundup!

The Copilot Chronicle is a newsletter throughout the month of September that brings you top tips, latest announcements, exciting events and much more! September is our #BackToWorkWithCopilot month! Throughout September, we have daily activity taking place on LinkedIn and our Copilot Community to help you quickly get back into the swing of things using M365 Copilot.

?? This week is a weekly round up of the prompts shared, plus a details on Copilot Wave 2 as announced on Monday! ??

Your next Chronicle will be published on Monday 30th September!

And don't forget in October's edition, we will package up all the assets for you to easily re-use internally for your own Copilot Campaign!

Lets get to it!!

Here's your round up of week 3 prompts from #BacktoWorkwithCopilot?...

Prompt #11: Mega Prompt

“Look at the emails, Teams meetings, documents and Teams chats that I've sent in the last year. Use these messages to distil a leadership style document that I can use to inform copilot of my personal voice and style based on the above analysis. Give me a breakdown of my top 5 strengths in a Table with the following formation | Strength | description | how it helps me in my role | how it could be misunderstood | 2 ways I can build this strength. In another table give me a breakdown of 3 areas for improvement in the following formation | Improvement area | description | how it impacts my role | how it could be misunderstood | 3 ways I can improve. I would also like 3 OKRs based on the above analysis that I could reach in the next 6-9 months.”

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Prompt #12: Copilot in Microsoft Forms

Try Copilot in Microsoft Forms

1?? Design a volunteer sign-up form to gather volunteers' available days and times, contact information, relevant skills, and preferred volunteer activities.

2?? Design a feedback survey that includes to collect employees’ feedback on clarity of communication, relevance of topics, overall effectiveness of event, and ask suggestions for future improvements.

3?? Generate a quiz to test knowledge on [topic]

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Prompt #13: Copilot in Whiteboard

Try Copilot in Whiteboard

1?? Generate plot ideas for a mystery that takes place in an office cafeteria

2?? Create some common questions that can be asked to get a retrospective started with my colleagues

3?? Suggest, as a HR Manager, ways to improve [process of choice]

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Prompt #14: Copilot in OneNote

Try Copilot in Whiteboard

1?? Create a to do list from the information on this page

2?? Rewrite my notes making them clearer and more concise so I can share them with colleagues

3?? Generate a list of pros and cons from my brainstorming session

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Prompt #15: Feel good Friday!

“I want to give a shout out to /[person] so she/he/they can end her/his/their week on a positive note. Look through our interactions in chats, channels, meetings and any shared documents. What have been her/his/their top achievements and why? Summarise this into a short poem I can send her/him/them to make her/him/them feel good”

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?? Copilot Wave 2 round up ??

We announced a whole host of updates to Copilot, but I'm going to share my top 3! If you want to learn more about all the announcements, you can catch up on the blog post here !

1?? Copilot in Outlook – Prioritise my inbox ?

Quickly get to the messages that matter, analysing your inbox based on both the content of your email and the context of your role.

Copilot automatically generates a concise summary of each email, and includes why it prioritized the message along with top insights.

Copilot will consider who you report to and the email threads where you’ve been responsive to inform its prioritisation.

?? Coming soon:

? Teach Copilot specific topics, keywords, or people that are important to you, ensuring those emails are marked as high priority.

? These features will be in public preview starting late 2024.

2?? Copilot agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot ??

Agents are AI assistants designed to automate and execute business processes, working with or for humans.

???They range in capability from simple, prompt-and-response agents to agents that replace repetitive tasks to more advanced, fully autonomous agents.

?? Agents allow you to connect your organisation’s?knowledge and data sources like SharePoint, Dynamics 365, or your line of business systems.

?? Copilot agents can be used by you, shared with a select group, or deployed to an entire organization.

To make it even easier to build Copilot agents, we announced agent builder, a new, simplified experience powered by Copilot Studio .

3?? Copilot pages

Copilot Pages - A new dynamic, persistent canvas designed for AI collaboration ??

Key Features???

• Persistent: Copilot Pages takes AI-generated content and makes it durable, allowing you to edit and add to it.?

• Shareable: Any page you create can be shared as a dynamic, collaborative element in your Teams chats and channels, Outlook emails and meetings, or in the Pages module in the Microsoft M365 app.?

• Multiplayer: Work collaboratively with your teammates. See everyone’s work in real time and iterate on Copilot prompts as a team if you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.?

This is an entirely new work pattern—multiplayer, human-to-AI-to-human collaboration.

Start using today at https://microsoft365.com/Copilot

?? Major updates to the Copilot Success Kit ??

As we continue our journey to empowering you and your organization with AI experiences, we have announced several significant updates to the Copilot Success Kit. ? ?

The Copilot Success Kit is designed to:?

??♀???Accelerate your time to value with Microsoft 365 Copilot.?

??? Enable your progressive skilling journey with AI tools.??

Whats new?! ??

• Scenario library - new industry and functional use cases for Copilot Wave 2
• The 'Get Started with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel' guide (included in the Trainer Kit within the Success Kit), provides practical examples?for both new and power users of Excel.?
• The Technical Readiness Guide has been refreshed with updated Microsoft Copilot Studio and App Assure guidance.
• The User Enablement Guide has been updated to include guidance on leveraging Microsoft Viva to drive healthy usage and user satisfaction.

Ive highlighted the main changes above but a full breakdown can be seen here!

??Events you don't want to miss! ??

?? Microsoft 365 Copilot Fundamentals ??

Come and be a part of our exciting training hour, featuring live demonstrations of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Here we will cover:

• Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot and how it can benefit you
• The Art of Effective Prompting: Dos and Don'ts
• Interactive Prompting and Use Case Demonstrations
• Top 3 prompts to take away (and use everyday for immediate value)
• Next Step: Become a Power User

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