Claude, your colleague at work
The AI helps you. But you remain the bridge that copies, pastes and rephrases. Two evenings and you will no longer be — from anywhere, from your laptop.
Reserve a seat for me →An applied, online course for people who work with documents, spreadsheets, and reports every day — and who have too many repetitive tasks that shouldn't exist.
There is not yet a course on prompting.
It's a course about how to transform Claude into a digital colleague who reads your files, understands the context of your work, and completes tasks — without you being the bridge that copies, pastes, and rephrases.
You delegate tasks to them, close your laptop, come back and find all the required documents neatly arranged, directly on your computer.
Why the online edition is built differently
Online doesn't mean "the same course, but on Zoom." We rebuilt it specifically for the format:
- Installation is done before, not during the course. You receive a written guide + setup video a few days in advance, and if you get stuck, I'll answer you individually before the first session. That way we get straight to work — we don't waste precious time on configurations.
- Two intense evenings, not one marathon day. 2 live sessions of 3 hours each, on different days. In between, you get to practice on your own and come back with real questions.
- Office hours for follow-up almost two weeks after the course — when you've already run into real friction in your work.
- Recording each session remains available, so you can return to any step.
Why ChatGPT is no longer enough
You may already be using ChatGPT or other AI tools for better-worded emails, summaries, ideas, or texts. And you've probably noticed that after a while, the process becomes tedious.
You think about what prompt to write. You copy bits of documents. You upload files one by one. You rephrase the question. You get an answer. You manually move it back into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, or your internal documents.
The AI helps you. But you remain the bridge that connects the pieces.
Claude Cowork (the name I use for Claude Code in the office context) works directly in your project folder. It reads your files, understands the structure of documents, creates new materials, modifies templates, compares versions, and remembers the context of your work between sessions. Instead of isolated conversations with a chatbot, you have an assistant who sees your workspace and completes tasks.
The five reflexes you form in this course
This course doesn't teach you "how to give better prompts." That approach was useful two years ago—now Claude can read your files himself, so you don't have to describe what's in them anymore.
You will acquire five practical reflexes that make the difference between someone who uses AI occasionally and someone who integrates it into their daily work.
How you work with your files.
How to give Claude Cowork access to documents, folders, reports, and templates so you don't have to copy context every time. Your work lives in files — and that's where it all starts.
How you work with Claude as an assistant, not as a search engine.
How do you formulate tasks, how do you delimit a task, how do you maintain a coherent thread of work — not a series of isolated questions that look at each other.
When to delegate and when not to.
Not every task is worth delegating. You will learn to recognize what is suitable for AI, what works best hybridly, and what remains in your hands.
When you trust and when you verify.
The most valuable reflex you can develop. You'll see exactly where Claude is really good, where he tends to go wrong, and what types of checks make the difference between a secure workflow and a fragile one.
How do you teach Claude your way of working?.
The most powerful part: you teach it how to work once, and it follows the steps exactly. It formats your documents the way you do. It searches for information in a disciplined manner, in the order you want.
It connects to the tools you use every day — email, calendar, Zoom, Sheets, Google Docs, or any other software system your work depends on. All of these routines are encoded into „skills” that you trigger with a single command.
Build once, use forever. And in the end, you learned how to do it — you don't just copy my examples.
At the end, you leave with a set of workflows and at least one skill of your own, built during the course, which you can immediately adapt to your real work.
Who is the course for?
For people who work in roles with a lot of information, a lot of documents, and a lot of processes, and want to use AI in a concrete way, not just declaratively.
It is suitable for:
- project / product managers
- content creators
- HR specialists
- financial and administrative specialists
- procurement and acquisitions
- team leaders
- community builders
- entrepreneurs and small team managers
If your work includes files, procedures, reports, lists, briefs, tasks, presentations, emails, or internal processes — this course is for you.
The real problem the course solves
In most office jobs, the work is not hard because it is complex. It is difficult because it is fragmented.
Information lives in emails, Excels, Word documents, PDFs, shared folders, internal messages, meeting notes. You have to compare versions, draw conclusions, make reports, create templates, verify data, repeat the same processes week after week.
The course transforms this chaos into a clear working system — a system that you own, not a foreign tool that you use occasionally.
Benefits by area
Project / Product Management and Team Leads
Tasks, statuses, risks, plans, communication between teams.
Concrete applications
- extract meeting actions directly from notes or recordings
- weekly status reports generated on schedule, while you sleep
- tracking risks and bottlenecks between meetings
- turning notes into work plans
- client briefs
- sprint recaps sent automatically
Content Creators and Community Builders
Ideas, drafts, programming, audience analysis.
Concrete applications
- weekly content calendar
- drafts for posts, newsletters and emails
- multiple variations of the same message for different channels
- SEO optimization
- automatic scheduling on social media
- quick replies to recurring messages
HR and People Operations
Onboarding on autopilot, feedback, answers from internal policies, materials for employees.
Concrete applications
- onboarding checklists
- creating ads on LinkedIn and tracking responses
- drafts for domestic policies
- synthesis from feedback forms
- structuring anonymous responses
- generating job descriptions starting from a rough description
Financial and administrative
File analysis, reports, checks and clear explanations for management.
Concrete applications
- structuring monthly reports
- explaining the variations in the tables
- checking expense lists
- executive summary for the board
- reusable templates for reporting
Procurement and acquisitions
Comparisons between offers, ordering information from suppliers, consistency checks.
Concrete applications
- side-by-side comparison of offers
- adaptation to specifications
- extracting key terms from contracts
- search for suitable suppliers
- checking the consistency between the order and the invoice
Entrepreneurs and small team managers
An overview of everything that's happening, without drowning in details.
Concrete applications
- daily digest with news from your inbox and calendar
- weekly team summary
- lead prospecting and automatic sorting
- transforming strategy notes into concrete decisions and tasks
Course structure
Two 3-hour live sessions, each with a concept section immediately followed by applied exercise, on your laptop and examples — plus office hours for follow-up.
Session 1 · Claude Cowork Fundamentals
How Claude Cowork works and how to use it safely, step by step, without technical experience.
- What is Claude Cowork and how does it differ from a classic chatbot?
- how to work with folders and files
- how to give clear instructions and how to delimit a task
- how to read, synthesize and compare documents
- how to create new files, templates and reports
Session 2 · Rules, skills, agents + practical project
You go from "I use Claude" to "I built my own way of working" — and you take everything into an applied workflow, in a real office scenario.
- how to set permanent rules for a project (working memory)
- how to build your first reusable skill
- how to use parallel agents for larger tasks
- how you decide when to delegate, when to check, and when to take the task forward yourself
- we start from a disorganized set of files and transform them into a coherent system — and connect it to your tools
Examples of workflows we can build together:
- weekly content generator (messages, images, automatic scheduling)
- organizational system for administrative documents
- automatic notes from meetings
- daily digest with news from your inbox and calendar
- a personalized skill for a job you do repetitively
Office hours for follow-up
Almost two weeks after the course, we meet again for 1h30 for questions about your own work and for real frictions that have arisen in the meantime.
How it unfolds
The course is online, live on Zoom, and takes place on your laptop, using your own examples. Each concept is followed by an applied exercise; by the end you have a real workflow that you can adapt directly to your work.
| When | What we do |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 1 · 6:00 PM–9:00 PM | Session 1 · Fundamentals |
| Thursday, September 3 · 6:00 PM–9:00 PM | Session 2 · Rules, skills, agents + practical project |
| Tuesday, September 15 · 6:00 PM–7:30 PM | Office hours for follow-up (collective Q&A, what have you applied in the meantime) |
Installation & setup are done before the start, from the written + video guide I send you after signing up. If you get stuck, I'll answer you individually before the first session.
- Format: online, live on Zoom (links will be sent to your email after registration)
- Level: beginner / non-technical
- Necessary: own laptop + account Claude Pro ($20/month) + stable internet connection
- Registration: each session is recorded and you receive it after the course
Who teaches you?
I am Madalina Cocea. I have been working in scientific communication for 20 years — currently at the Technology Transfer Center of the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iași. I have trained over 2,000 researchers from over 10 universities: how to communicate what they do, how to structure their work, and how to manage communication on complex projects.
Now I want to bring that same expertise to people working in other office jobs. The same reflexes that help researchers navigate information chaos work just as well for a project manager, an HR specialist, or a team lead. I use Claude daily in my own work — this course is built from what has worked for me, not from theory.
What's included
- 2 live sessions of 3 hours each, applied, on Zoom
- Written guide + setup video, sent before the course (installation is done async)
- Recording of each session, available after the course
- A real workflow built during the course, adapted to your context
- At least one skill of your own, saved and ready to use at home
- Certificate of participation
- Follow-up office hours almost two weeks after the course (1h30, collective Q&A)
Starting Kit with pre-built skills
6 theme packs that you install in Claude and adapt to your work:
For whom it is not
If you are a developer and want to use Claude Code for production code: this is not the course for you. Here we work with documents, folders, reports and processes — the tools of office work. We do not write software applications and we do not teach programming.
And if you work in research and want to use Claude for literature, data, and papers, you have a dedicated course: Claude, your academic assistant.
What do I need?
- Own laptop (Windows or macOS), with rights to install a new application
- Account Claude Pro active ($20/month or ~$17/month annually)
- Stable internet connection and a Zoom account (free is enough)
Important: Claude's subscription is taken directly from claude.ai, not from other services that promise "access to Anthropic models". It's not the same and you won't be able to work in the workshop with them. You do the installation beforehand from the guide you received, and if you get stuck they answer you individually.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Claude Cowork?
It’s the name we use for Claude Code in office contexts. Technically speaking, you’ll be working with Anthropic’s official Claude Code tool — the same product developers use — but we’re repositioning it for administrative work, not code. The name takes the emphasis off of „code” and puts it on what you’ll actually be doing: assisted work with documents, files, and processes.
Why do I need a Claude Pro account?
Because Claude Code (the tool we use in the course) is only available on Anthropic's paid plans. The most affordable is Claude Pro — $20/month (or ~$17/month paid annually). You need it active on class days so you can work on your laptop.
What happens if I miss a session?
Each session is recorded, and you receive the recording after the class — so you can catch up. Follow-up office hours are when we clarify anything you missed or anything that didn't work out in the meantime.
Can I learn from scratch, without technical experience?
Yes, absolutely. The course is built exactly for you. We don't write code. We use Claude as a colleague you talk to — in Romanian — and who does your work. We work step by step, from scratch, until you build your first skill yourself. And you do the installation beforehand from the written + video guide that I send you — and I answer you individually if you get stuck.
How big is the group?
Maximum 25 people, so that the format remains applied and I can respond to each one.
Registration
Online edition — September 1–15, 2026. 25 spots, so I can respond to everyone during the exercises.
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