Overview
AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are no longer optional extras - they're becoming core to how professionals write, plan, analyze, and communicate at work. But most people are only scratching the surface of what these tools can actually do.
In this fast-paced, hands-on 3-hour seminar, you'll learn how to use ChatGPT and Copilot together to save hours every week - whether you're drafting emails and reports, summarizing meetings, analyzing spreadsheets, building presentations, or simply trying to think through a problem faster. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, you'll walk away with prompts, workflows, and techniques you can start using immediately - no coding or technical background required.
Whether you're brand new to AI tools or already using them casually and want to get serious, this seminar will help you work smarter, not harder.
Areas Covered in the Session
- What ChatGPT and Copilot actually are (and how they're different)
- Writing effective prompts - the difference between a mediocre answer and a great one
- Drafting emails, memos, letters, and reports in your own voice
- Summarizing long documents, articles, and meeting notes in seconds
- Using ChatGPT as a thinking partner - brainstorming, outlining, decision-making
- Copilot in Word: drafting and rewriting documents
- Copilot in Outlook: summarizing email threads and drafting replies
- Copilot in Excel: analyzing data, spotting trends, writing formulas in plain English
- Copilot in PowerPoint: turning a document or outline into a polished deck
- Copilot in Teams: meeting recaps and action item extraction
- Common mistakes and pitfalls (accuracy, data privacy, over-reliance)
- Write clear, effective prompts to get better results from ChatGPT and Copilot
- Use Copilot inside Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams to speed up daily tasks
- Identify appropriate use cases - and pitfalls to avoid - when using AI at work
- Live Q&A
Who Will Benefit
- Business owners
- CEO’s / CFO’s / CTO’s
- Managers of all levels
- Anybody who uses Microsoft 365 on a regular basis and wants to be more efficient and productive
- Administrators
- Salespeople
- Trainers
- Bankers
- Office workers
- HR Professionals
- Business Professionals
Speaker Profile
Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 40 years of professional experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Expert in Excel. He has trained over 45,000 businesspeople in on-line webinars, public seminars, and on-site training sessions. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant and a trainer on many successful projects. His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, ChatGPT, PowerBi, and CoPilot, among others. His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access and another book on Excel Pivot Tables. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a BA in Computer Science.
Instructor
Tom Fragale
