
Aim for the Pain, Not the Pride
Two counterintuitive moves that drove 97% Copilot adoption - recruiting your loudest skeptics and replacing your training program with a five-minute game.

Two counterintuitive moves that drove 97% Copilot adoption - recruiting your loudest skeptics and replacing your training program with a five-minute game.

Microsoft built their most ambitious agentic feature on Anthropic's technology. The 'who copied who' debate misses the point. The real challenge is helping thousands of professionals shift from asking AI questions to directing AI work.

The third hands-on lab in my community resource series gives you a deliberately wrecked spreadsheet and walks you through fixing it with Edit with Copilot - one problem at a time, then all at once. Includes a practice file you can download and break yourself.
John Winsor argues AI has made it trivially easy to perform expertise without possessing it. He's right - but his solution still centers the outsider.

Copilot's Agent Mode shifts the core skill from 'what do I type?' to 'how do I delegate?' After watching it chew through 700,000 rows of adoption data in minutes, I'm rethinking what our training program needs to teach next.

The second hands-on lab in my community resource series tackles email overload. Configure Outlook's AI prioritization feature, set up custom rules for what matters most, and learn how to refine your instructions as Copilot learns your patterns.
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