How it Works
- Teams of up to four works together under time pressure, using Copilot to complete short challenges that build practical, transferable skills.
- Each team is supported by a Learning Buddy — an AI coach that provides guidance, clarification, and challenge without giving away answers.
- All outputs are submitted to a Scoring Buddy, which evaluates demonstration, understanding, and creativity, awarding Microbucks for performance.
- Live leaderboards, timed missions, and optional surprise events create a sense of momentum, competition, and fun throughout the day.
Mission 1 — Clear Signal
- Learn how to give Copilot high-quality instructions by shaping requests with the right amount of clarity and structure for the task.
- Discover when a simple request is enough and when adding a bit more definition unlocks significantly better results.
- Practise turning vague, incomplete asks into clear, usable guidance Copilot can act on reliably.
- Shift from looking for the “best prompt” to choosing the best approach for each situation.
Mission 2 — Linebreak
- Develop the ability to guide and stabilise Copilot as tasks become more detailed or ambiguous.
- Understand how small alignment steps — constraints, clarifiers, and early check-ins — prevent drift and keep outputs on target.
- Apply methods that help Copilot stay focused when interpreting nuance and complexity.
- Adopt the mindset of directing the process rather than reacting to whatever the AI produces.
Mission 3 — Operation Compass
- Learn how to get Copilot to uncover missing information, ask smarter questions, and help you shape the problem before any output is created.
- Treat Copilot as a coach that guides your thinking rather than a tool you simply instruct.
- Use discovery, clarification, and exploration to strengthen the quality of everything that follows.
- Shift from “tell it what to do” to working with AI to understand what’s needed.
Mission 4 — Identity Lock
- Define the roles, viewpoints, and expertise Copilot should adopt so it produces work matched to your audience and purpose.
- Explore how different identities change tone, insight, and usefulness — from analyst to advisor to domain specialist.
- Learn to anchor Copilot’s role and your own so collaboration becomes more predictable and effective.
- Move from generic responses to role-aware, context-sensitive output.
Mission 5 — False Mirror
- Use Copilot as a thinking partner to explore options, challenge assumptions, and uncover perspectives that aren’t immediately obvious
- Reframe challenges, flip vantage points, and test alternative interpretations to expand the quality of your ideas.
- Practise using Copilot to simulate conversations and pressure-test your thinking before taking it to stakeholders.
- Shift from asking for answers to co-creating better questions — and better decisions.
Mission 6 — Signal Forge
- Learn how to refine, stress-test, and strengthen Copilot generated work so it becomes accurate, reliable, and ready for real use.
- Practise critiquing outputs, exploring variations, and iterating with purpose to elevate quality.
- Use Copilot to spot risks, gaps, and weaknesses in its own reasoning — and correct them.
- Adopt the mindset that great results come from shaping, improving, and strengthening the output, not accepting the first draft.
Agentic Learning Buddies: A Frontier Learning System
Supporting the live event is our agentic Learning Buddy ecosystem — a set of purpose-built AI agents that deliver consistent micro-coaching, low-drift skills practice, structured scoring, and personalised feedback.
Each Buddy uses a stable, pedagogy-driven interaction pattern:
- Warm, clear, low-drift tone
- Sequenced skills practice
- Short reflective pauses
- Consistent scoring using defined rubrics
- Clean transitions between Learning, Lab, Scoring, and Feedback agents
What Clients Gain
- A confident, capable workforce that understands how to collaborate with AI — not just use it.
- Teams learn how to think with Copilot , guide it, correct it, and elevate its work rather than rely on predefined prompts.
- The course builds practical, future-proof capabilities that support better decision-making, clearer communication, and higher-quality output.
- Participants leave with a shared language and a repeatable approach for working with Copilot effectively across a wide range of tasks.
Participants Leave With
- A complete set of prompting skills covering clarity, alignment, role definition, co-thinking, and iteration
- A repeatable method for designing, improving, and strengthening AI interactions
- Confidence in shaping Copilot behaviour through conversation rather than commands
- A mindset shift from passive use to strategic, collaborative engagement with Copilot
Summary
The Copilot Showdown combines a high-energy gamified experience with a deep, future-proof prompting curriculum and a frontier agentic learning system. It gives teams the skills to communicate clearly, think in partnership with AI, and produce higher-value work — with measurable improvement in a single day.
Exams and assessments
There are no formal exams in this course. Learners will engage in:
- Interactive scenarios and exercises across Microsoft 365 apps
- Knowledge checks to reinforce key prompt-writing techniques
- Peer discussions and instructor-led feedback sessions
Hands-on learning
This course includes:
- Scenario-based labs for each Microsoft 365 tool
- Guided prompt-writing workshops with real-world challenges
- Instructor-led demonstrations and live feedback sessions
- Opportunities to build a personal prompt library
