AI for Office Productivity: Excel, Docs, Email & Meetings
Find your real time sinks, then fix them: targeted thread summaries, outline-first documents, meeting notes that yield decisions, and safe spreadsheet work.
Most people apply AI to whatever is in front of them and save five minutes. This course finds the repeated tasks and saves five minutes forty times. You will audit where your hours actually go, then work through the four biggest office sinks: email and long threads (targeted questions, not generic summaries), documents (outline-first drafting, source-referenced review), meetings (decisions with owners and dates, not a description of the discussion), and spreadsheets, where the rule is absolute: a model doing arithmetic in prose is not a calculator. It ends on the professional courtesies, including the most common serious mistake in office AI use.
What you'll learn
- Audit your week and identify the tasks worth applying AI to
- Cut email time with targeted thread questions and bullet-to-draft writing
- Read and draft long documents with outline-first, source-referenced passes
- Turn meetings into decisions, owners and dates instead of descriptions
- Use AI safely for formulas while never trusting prose arithmetic
- Build the habit without generating extra work for colleagues
Course content
- 1. Finding your real time sinks (15 min)
- 2. Email and long threads (15 min)
- 3. Documents: reading, drafting, reviewing (15 min)
- 4. Meetings that produce decisions (15 min)
- 5. Spreadsheets and data without breaking anything (15 min)
- 6. Building the habit, and not annoying your colleagues (15 min)
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