Labs on Eriks training corner

Lab 00 - First steps

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 00 - First steps

Time: 15 minutes Goal: sign in, find Copilot and check that it sees the prepared company data. Chapter: Introduction to Microsoft 365 Copilot

Info

Button names can differ slightly between versions (web / desktop, new / classic Outlook). If you can’t find a button, open the Copilot pane and ask for the same thing in your own words.

On the classroom computer open Edge and go to https://m365copilot.com (or https://www.office.com).
Sign in with the account from your trainer.
Open Teams → Team TRAXIA – Vedenie divízií → Files tab.
Select the folder Školenie Copilot → … → Copy to → My files / OneDrive → Copy here.
Open OneDrive and check the folder Školenie Copilot – it should contain 10 files. You work with this personal copy all day.

Why we copy

Everyone needs their own files to edit – in the Team you would overwrite each other’s documents. If copying fails, open the Team files in the browser (Files → Open in SharePoint) and use Copy to there.

Lab 01 - From a vague prompt to a good one

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 01 - From a vague prompt to a good one

Time: 30 minutes Where: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Work mode) Goal: experience the difference between a vague and a structured prompt. Chapter: Writing good prompts

Task 1.1 – Trial and error (5 min)

Enter a vague prompt and keep the result open:

Summarize the situation with the supplier.

Note what is missing or wrong.

Task 1.2 – Rewrite it with the 4 parts (10 min)

In a new chat write your own prompt with Goal, Context, Source and Expectations. If you need inspiration:

Lab 02 - The manager's morning inbox

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 02 - The manager’s morning inbox

Time: 45 minutes Where: Outlook (web or desktop) Goal: process in 45 minutes the mail that would otherwise take half a day. Chapter: Copilot in Outlook

Situation: It is Monday morning after a week of business travel. There are 17 e-mails in your inbox. The management meeting is on Thursday.

Task 2.1 – What’s on fire? (5 min)

In Outlook open the Copilot pane (Copilot icon on the ribbon) and enter:

Lab 03 - Minutes, contract and report

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 03 - Minutes, contract and report

Time: 45 minutes Where: Word (web or desktop), files in OneDrive\Školenie Copilot Goal: quickly turn messy inputs into documents you can pass on. Chapter: Copilot in Word

Task 3.1 – From notes to minutes (12 min)

Open Poznamky_porada_vedenia_2026-10-05.docx – quick notes from a meeting, no structure.
In the Copilot pane enter:

Turn these notes into formal minutes of the division management meeting. Structure: date and attendees (expand initials from context; if unsure, keep the initials), discussed items with a short summary, decisions made, a task table (task – owner – deadline) and the date of the next meeting. Factual style, in Slovak.

Create a new blank document, insert the result and save it as Zapisnica_porada_2026-10-05.docx.
Check: does the table have all 8 tasks (the last line of the notes contains two)? Are the deadlines right?

Task 3.2 – Transcript → tasks (8 min)

Open Prepis_kontrolny_den_D1_WIM_2026-10-01.docx (Teams meeting transcript, partly in English).
Ask Copilot:

Which decisions and tasks came out of this meeting? For each task give the owner and the deadline. Then list all amounts mentioned and what they relate to.

What did Klaus Berger say about the delivery date and about force majeure? Include the timestamps.

Task 3.3 – Contract check against the policy (15 min)

Open Dodatok_ZoD_SENSOTEC_navrh_v0.9.docx (draft from the supplier).
First a summary:

Summarize this amendment in 5 bullets in English. What changes for us as the customer?

Then compare it with the internal policy (type / and choose Smernica_SM-07_Nakup_a_zmluvy.docx):

Compare this amendment with the policy /Smernica_SM-07_Nakup_a_zmluvy. Create a table: article – what the supplier proposes – what SM-07 requires – proposed wording – risk (low/medium/high). Also state who must approve the amendment based on its value.

Paste the result into a new document Pripomienky_dodatok_SENSOTEC.docx.

How many deviations you should find

At least 8: unilateral extension of the deadline, 50 % advance without a guarantee, 14-day payment term, low and capped penalty for the supplier, high uncapped penalty for us, 12-month warranty, liability capped at 10 %, force majeure including subcontractors, Austrian law, acceptance by silence. Approval: CFO + CEO (EUR 312,000 > EUR 250,000).

Lab 04 - Projects, revenue and service

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 04 - Projects, revenue and service

Time: 45 minutes Where: Excel (web recommended), files in OneDrive\Školenie Copilot Goal: get answers for the management meeting from data without writing formulas. Chapter: Copilot in Excel

Info

Open the Excel files from OneDrive (not downloaded to disk), otherwise Copilot is not available.

Task 4.1 – Projects over budget (15 min)

Open Zakazky_2025_2026.xlsx and in the Copilot pane:

First overview:

Summarize this data: number of projects by status and division, total budget and actual cost.

Calculated columns:

Add a column "Estimate at completion" = Actual cost / (Completion / 100) for projects with completion above 0, and a column "Variance %" = Estimate / Budget - 1.

Highlighting:

Highlight in red the rows where Variance % is higher than 10 %.

A manager’s question:

Which projects with status "V realizácii" (in progress) have the largest variance? Give the top 5 with project manager and branch.

Check that the top 5 includes ZK-2026-007 Smart križovatky Novohrad and ZK-2026-014 D1 WIM Prešov.

Lab 05 - Deck for the management meeting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 05 - Deck for the management meeting

Time: 35 minutes Where: PowerPoint (desktop or web) Goal: turn your report from Lab 3 into 3 – 5 slides in the company design. Chapter: Copilot in PowerPoint

Task 5.1 – Deck from the report (12 min)

In OneDrive open TRAXIA_firemna_sablona.pptx and save a copy as Porada_vedenia_divizia.pptx (File → Save as / Save a copy).
Open Copilot and enter (choose your Lab 3 document with /; if you don’t have it, use Strategicke_podklady_2027.docx):

Create a presentation from /Stav_divizie_porada for the management meeting. Max. 5 slides: 1) title, 2) summary in 3 points, 3) finance of the three projects over budget, 4) top 3 risks, 5) decisions we need. Phrase the titles as conclusions. Use the layouts of this template. Write the slides in Slovak.

Review the result – were the template colours and layouts kept?

Task 5.2 – Edit with prompts (10 min)

Try at least three:

Lab 06 - D1 WIM crisis meeting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 06 - D1 WIM crisis meeting

Time: 35 minutes Where: Microsoft Teams Goal: use Copilot and the Facilitator agent during a meeting and turn the result into minutes and tasks. Chapter: Copilot in Teams

Organisation: you work in groups of three. The trainer assigns groups and roles.

Task 6.1 – Set up the meeting (5 min) – Moderator

Teams → Calendar → New meeting: title Krízová porada D1 WIM – group X, invite the other two members, start in 5 minutes.
Add an agenda to the invitation: 1. sensor delivery status, 2. costs, 3. customer communication, 4. tasks.
Join the meeting (audio/microphone as instructed by the trainer).

Task 6.2 – Meeting with Copilot on (12 min) – everyone

The moderator starts Transcription (More → Record and transcribe → Start transcription).
The moderator starts the Facilitator agent (Copilot / Facilitator icon in the meeting – Add agenda and notes).
Play the meeting using the role cards (below). Speak naturally, in your own words, everyone at least 3 – 4 sentences. You may speak Slovak.
During the meeting the Observer asks Copilot (Copilot pane in the meeting):

Summarize the discussion so far. What did we agree on and what is still open?

Which tasks have been mentioned so far and who owns them?

End the meeting.

Role cards

Role	What to say (in your own words)
Moderator (head of division)	Open the meeting and the agenda. At the end decide: option A – 4 stations by the end of October, 2 in spring. Assign tasks: Tomáš informs the customer by Friday, Peter prepares the cost analysis by 15 October, you send comments on the SENSOTEC amendment by Wednesday.
Project manager (Tomáš)	SENSOTEC will deliver the sensors only in week 45 (approx. 6 November). Stations 1 – 4 will be done by 24 October. Installation below 5 °C is not possible. You propose option A, the temporary measures cost approx. EUR 12,000. The customer RSC Východ doesn’t know anything yet.
Observer / Finance (Peter)	Estimated cost at completion is approx. EUR 2.2 M against a budget of EUR 1.84 M, i.e. +20 %. We will not sign the SENSOTEC amendment – force majeure must not include subcontractors. You want part of the cost claimed from SENSOTEC. You ask Copilot during the meeting.

If the microphone doesn't work over remote desktop

Play the meeting in the meeting chat (everyone types their lines). Copilot in the meeting can work with the chat as well. Without a transcript no Recap is created – for task 6.3 use Copilot Chat over the document /Prepis_kontrolny_den_D1_WIM (a transcript of a similar meeting) and do the rest of the task the same way.

Lab 07 - Decision-making with Copilot

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 07 - Decision-making with Copilot

Time: 15 minutes in class + bonuses for later Where: Microsoft 365 Copilot app Goal: use Copilot to prepare a decision and try the agents. Chapter: Advanced scenarios and agents

Choose one of tasks 7.1 or 7.2. The rest are bonus tasks.

Task 7.1 – Prepare me for the management meeting (Copilot Chat)

I have a management meeting on Thursday. Based on the calendar invitation, my e-mails and documents from the last week, prepare me: for every agenda item write the current status, what is expected from me and which decision I propose. At the end list 3 things I still need to verify.

Continue:

Lab 08 - Manager's Monday (final assignment)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lab 08 - Manager’s Monday (final assignment)

Time: 35 minutes Work: individually, with Copilot in all apps Hand-in: folder Záverečná úloha in your OneDrive, shared with the trainer Chapter: Final assignment and quiz

Situation

The CEO has given you a task: “By Thursday I want the complaint from RSC Stred resolved and a clear plan for how service in Košice gets to a 92 % SLA.”

You already have all the information: the complaint from Ing. Mráz, Marek Oravec’s e-mail about the SLA, the file Servisne_tikety_Q3_2026.xlsx, the posts in the Servis channel and the Košice data in the revenue file.

Labs on Eriks training corner

Lab 00 - First steps

Lab 00 - First steps

Task 0.1 – Sign in

Lab 01 - From a vague prompt to a good one

Lab 01 - From a vague prompt to a good one

Task 1.1 – Trial and error (5 min)

Task 1.2 – Rewrite it with the 4 parts (10 min)

Lab 02 - The manager's morning inbox

Lab 02 - The manager’s morning inbox

Task 2.1 – What’s on fire? (5 min)

Lab 03 - Minutes, contract and report

Lab 03 - Minutes, contract and report

Task 3.1 – From notes to minutes (12 min)

Task 3.2 – Transcript → tasks (8 min)

Task 3.3 – Contract check against the policy (15 min)

Lab 04 - Projects, revenue and service

Lab 04 - Projects, revenue and service

Task 4.1 – Projects over budget (15 min)

Lab 05 - Deck for the management meeting

Lab 05 - Deck for the management meeting

Task 5.1 – Deck from the report (12 min)

Task 5.2 – Edit with prompts (10 min)

Lab 06 - D1 WIM crisis meeting

Lab 06 - D1 WIM crisis meeting

Task 6.1 – Set up the meeting (5 min) – Moderator

Task 6.2 – Meeting with Copilot on (12 min) – everyone

Role cards

Lab 07 - Decision-making with Copilot

Lab 07 - Decision-making with Copilot

Task 7.1 – Prepare me for the management meeting (Copilot Chat)

Lab 08 - Manager's Monday (final assignment)

Lab 08 - Manager’s Monday (final assignment)

Situation