With prompting fundamentals under our belts, the second session moved to the tool the whole company already has in its pocket: Microsoft Copilot. But before we touched the software, we worked on something more important — a shift in how we think about our own work.
Shifting to an AI-powered mindset
The biggest unlock isn't a feature — it's a habit of asking the right question about your own day. I had the team look hard at their routines through two simple lenses:
- What do I do that's repeatable? The recurring drafts, summaries, formatting and first passes that eat up time.
- Can AI do this for me — or at least start it? Not to replace the work, but to take the blank-page burden off it.
Once you start seeing your work that way, the opportunities show up everywhere. That mindset is what makes the tools actually useful, instead of a novelty you try once and forget.
What we covered
- Meet Copilot — what it is, and the fact that everyone at the company already has access to it.
- Navigating Copilot — finding it, getting around, and where it plugs into the tools we already use.
- Prompting, again — extra practice building on our ChatGPT session, with a key point: prompting is the same skill, just in a different location.
- Copilot vs. ChatGPT — running the same prompts in both and comparing the outputs, so people could feel where each one shines.
The point that stuck
The reassuring takeaway for a lot of people: you already know how to do this. The sandwich prompt we practiced in ChatGPT works exactly the same way in Copilot. Switching tools isn't starting over — it's the same skill in a new window. That lowered the barrier for the folks who were nervous about "learning another AI thing."
Key takeaways
- Start every AI opportunity by spotting the repeatable parts of your own work.
- Prompting transfers. The skill you build in one tool carries straight into the next.
- Copilot is already available company-wide — there's no barrier to starting today.
- Different tools give different outputs; comparing them helps you pick the right one for the task.
Delivered live to my team and recorded internally for anyone who missed it.