Advanced training for knowledge workers
Copilot training for knowledge workers who write and substantiate.
For people who write, research and substantiate. Four hours, starting from the assignments submitted in the e-learning.
The measures
01 · In short
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Group
- 8–12 participants
- For whom
- Policy, communications, advisory, research, legal
- Price
- €1.550 per group
- Build a context document and style guide
- Reduce a long piece to one page that holds up
- Keep sources traceable
What this training is about
02 · The substance
Knowledge work runs into a different problem than office work. Not that it takes too long, but that the result goes flat. A policy memo that sounds like every other policy memo, an analysis that carefully names every side and picks none. That's what you get when you let a model write without context.
The fix isn't a better prompt but better input. A context document with your starting points, a style guide with what you do and don't do, and the habit of supplying sources rather than hoping the model knows them. We build that here, and the group takes it with them.
The second half is about substantiation. A document that has to carry a decision has to be traceable. You learn how to reduce a long document to one page without losing the nuance, and how to keep visible where something came from.
Signal
Output sounds generic, 'Create' column lags behind
Who it's for
03 · The participants
01
Policy and advisory
Memos, advice and notes that have to carry a decision.
02
Communications and editorial
Copy with a recognizable tone, across several channels at once.
03
Research and legal
Work where the source matters as much as the conclusion.
The programme
04 · The build-up
An indication, not a timetable. What the group needs weighs more than the clock.
0:00
Where it turned generic
We put submitted e-learning assignments side by side. What is yours, and what could anyone have written?
0:45
The context document
Starting points, audience, forbidden words, standing sources. The group builds one together.
1:45
The style guide
Pinning down tone, so you don't have to explain it again every time.
2:30
From twenty pages to one
Summarizing without losing nuance, then checking the core is still there.
3:20
Keeping sources traceable
What you supply, what you verify and what you never simply adopt.
Questions about this training
05 · Short answer
Is this the same as the writing-from-your-sources workshop?
That one has been absorbed into this and expanded. The writing part remains, a section on substantiation and traceability has been added, and the session now starts from the e-learning assignments instead of from scratch.
What if everyone writes in a different tone?
Then that's the yield of the afternoon. Building a style guide forces a conversation that usually never happens. Expect the first hour to go there, and expect that to be a good thing.
May the context document contain sensitive information?
That's your call, and it stays in your own environment. In practice it holds starting points and tone, not case content.
Does this work for English-language documents too?
Yes. You build the style guide per language, because the pitfalls differ: Dutch output tends to go stiff, English tends to go woolly. We do one in the session; the second is half an hour of work afterwards.
Read on
- All trainings
The skills matrix and the six trainings that follow from it.
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Setting a date
Tell us briefly how many people you are and where things stall. Then we'll propose a programme.