AI at Work with
Microsoft Copilot

What is one task that eats your week?

Name, department — and one task that takes far too much of your time. We pin every answer on the wall and come back to it at the end of the day.

By the end of Day 1, you will be able to:

Can you reach Copilot?

Do this now — before we start the first block.

1. Open copilot.cloud.microsoft (or m365copilot.com).
2. Sign in with your KAMCO work account — never a personal one.
3. Type Hello and press Enter. An answer back? You are ready.
4. Stuck? Raise your hand — we have backup accounts.

In one line: what is Artificial Intelligence?

No wrong answers. Call it out — we pin it, then compare with the definition.

So what is AI?

Software that learns patterns from examples — and uses them to predict, sort, recommend or create — instead of only following rules a person wrote.

You already use AI every day.

Every LLM is AI. Not every AI is an LLM.

And what is an LLM?

Large Language Model — a pattern machine trained on huge amounts of text. It writes by predicting the next piece of text.

Shout the next word.

It remembers the patterns — not the pages.

One piece at a time.

Ask: “Summarise the Al-Waha portfolio's Q3.” Watch the answer appear piece by piece — each one the most likely next piece.

Fluent ≠ correct.

Ask about a number it has never seen — with no file attached:

Six cases that never existed.

The same engine — wired into your work.

A brilliant new intern — with a badge.

Same question. Two different worlds.

Click the switch. In Work mode, Copilot answers from the house view in your files. In Web mode, it answers from the internet.

Same kind of engine — very different walls.

Three leaks in twenty days.

First contact — then sort what's safe.

Describe it — no questions allowed.

One volunteer describes a shape. Everyone else draws it blind. No questions.

CTFT — four ingredients.

Copilot knows the world — not your situation.

Name the action.

Say nothing, and Copilot picks for you.

Same facts, different feel.

What · why · which · how.

From zero to hero.

One weak prompt. Four rounds. Watch it get visibly better — run each round in Copilot Chat with us.

1. Scenario: a long-standing client is upset that a REIT in his portfolio fell 5% in Q3.
2. Round 0 is mush. Round 4 is sendable.

Watch it be generic.

Run this — together.

Give it the situation.

Add the highlighted part and run it again.

Say what to do.

Add the highlighted part and run it again.

Shape it.

Add the highlighted part and run it again.

Set the voice — and the limits.

Add the highlighted part and run it again.

Nobody nails it in one shot — that's the method.

Grounded in the firm's own research.

From zero to hero — then build your own.

The real ask is often in the newest message.

This is Summarise by Copilot.

Five things matter. Two are traps.

Click the parts of the thread that define the job. Old instructions do not count.

Thread → checklist → holding reply.

Open the thread, then use Copilot. The second prompt gives the sender a quick answer while you work.

Tame the thread — then reply.

One sentence: the best thing Copilot did for you this morning.

Two or three voices — then straight in.

Clean first. Count second.

This is data cleaning.

Nine rows from the export. Four will hurt you.

Click every row that would make a total wrong.

This is Copilot in Excel.

Five prompts. Check after each one.

Delete rows 1–3 above the headers, format as a table (Ctrl+T), then run these in order.

One spreadsheet range. A global debate.

Clean the Al-Murjan export.

This is a PivotTable.

Inside the range — or not?

The weights come from the cleaned Al-Waha file. Click to compare each one with its range.

This is a mandate check.

Allocation, issuers, movers.

Run on the cleaned Al-Waha table. After each answer, ask Copilot to show the formula.

It summarises beautifully — and still misses a piece.

A copy-paste error inside a risk model.

Value, mandate, issuers.

Your turn: Al-Murjan, alone.

You have the thread and the 30 Sep export. Take the request from the email to a clean, checked analysis.

1. Finish the Day 1 lab tasks you have not marked done — then try the Stretch and Boss challenges.
2. In your Excel file: value at 30 Sep, Q3 change, allocation vs mandate, issuer check, top 3 and bottom 3.
3. Ask Copilot to write three findings in one line each — then check every number against your table.
4. Save your file in OneDrive. You need it tomorrow.
5. Finished early? Draft the three findings as a 60-word holding reply to Faisal in Outlook — and run Coaching by Copilot on it.

Look at the wall.

1. Which of these tasks could Copilot help with now — and how?
2. Prompt of the Day — steal it.
3. One line each: “The one thing I will use tomorrow is…”