☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ The Demo Nobody Sees Hello Reader This week started rather differently from most. We had two of our granddaughters staying with us for a couple of days before they head back to school, so work took a back seat while we enjoyed some grandparent time. One of the highlights was a trip to the local shopping mall to buy school supplies. There was great excitement over new school...
14 days ago • 4 min read
Last chance Cohort 5 Early Bird closes tomorrow Hi there, Quick one. Early Bird pricing for Microsoft 365 with Copilot, The Human Advantage closes tomorrow, August 25. After that it goes up to full price. Cohort 5 starts September 8, four live 90 minute sessions on consecutive Tuesdays, Word, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook, taught with the same judgement first approach, not a button clicking tutorial. Early Bird price, today only £397 £297 Save my Early Bird spot Price goes up to £397 tomorrow...
17 days ago • 1 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working Hello Reader Last week I delivered my first standalone Excel with Copilot webinar. The session started life because the Excel content within Microsoft 365 with Copilot: The Human Advantage deserved more time than I could comfortably give it within the main programme. It became clear that Excel needed a session of its own. As always, my biggest concern before a webinar isn't the...
21 days ago • 4 min read
Cohort 5 waitlist Your Early Bird spot is still open Hi there, You've been on the waitlist for Microsoft 365 with Copilot, The Human Advantage, so I wanted to make sure this didn't slip past you. Cohort 5 starts September 8, and Early Bird pricing closes August 25. What's inside: Four live 90 minute sessions on consecutive Tuesdays, September 8, 15, 22 and 29, covering Word, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook alongside Copilot Not a button clicking tutorial. This is about building the judgement to...
24 days ago • 1 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ Capacity, Opportunity and Boundaries... Hello Reader This week I found myself facing a dilemma that I suspect many of you encounter regularly. I was approached by a large online training company about a new consultancy project. The work would involve helping to design learning sessions for an organisation beginning its Microsoft 365 and Copilot journey. It was exactly the sort...
28 days ago • 4 min read
Live webinar Excel with Copilot: two dates to choose from Hi there, Excel is the one place most people assume Copilot will just do it for them. It won't, not entirely, and that's exactly why this session matters. My live webinar, Excel with Copilot, walks you through the four things you actually do in Excel, formulas, data analysis, charts and cleaning messy data, with Copilot doing the heavy lifting and you doing the quality check. Because a wrong formula isn't just inefficient. It's a wrong...
30 days ago • 1 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A Trip Down Memory Lane... This week I found myself searching for an old document I'd written years ago. The funny thing was that I could remember the content perfectly. I remembered the stories, the examples and the reason I wrote it. What I couldn't remember was the title. After a fair bit of digging through old files, I finally found it. It was an e-book from my first...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A quick note from me Hello Reader This week’s newsletter is a little different. I still have a Copilot Moment and a tiny Microsoft tip for you but for “What I’ve Been Up To” I wanted to share a different kind of AI story. Not a workplace one, not a productivity hack and not another “AI saved me two hours” example. This one involves two grandchildren, two children’s books, one...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
☕ Tech Tips & Tales from The MS Office Maestro Your weekly guided mini lesson on Microsoft, Copilot & smart working ☕ A quick note from me Hello Reader This week has been about doubling down on the new format of Microsoft 365 with Copilot: The Human Advantage, my practical Microsoft 365 and Copilot course for assistants and admin professionals. Following feedback from previous cohorts, I have reduced the sessions from two hours to 90 minutes, which means I am now redesigning all four sessions...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read