Discover how Microsoft's Copilot streamlines workplace communication by summarizing emails, chats, and files effortlessly. Explore practical applications for enhancing collaboration, problem-solving, and feedback delivery using this innovative AI tool.
Key Insights
- Utilize Copilot to efficiently summarize updates from emails, files, and chats, allowing quick catch-up after absences such as vacations.
- Leverage Copilot as a virtual assistant to brainstorm solutions and seek advice on workplace challenges, including providing effective feedback to colleagues or resolving specific managerial issues.
- Employ Copilot's search capabilities to identify and credit individuals who originally proposed ideas within past email and chat conversations, promoting recognition and accountability.
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So, in general, kind of some other ways to think about maybe using Copilot. So, what's interesting is you could actually say in the main Copilot, you could say, catch me up on everything across emails, chats, and files. And kind of summarize what's been going on in the main chat.
And I think. Yeah, yeah. So, here I have an example of that.
Like, what's the latest from—and you could type in a person. Or you could just say, what's the latest across emails, chats, and files? That's the interesting part about this whole work concept here is that they have access to it in the Work tab.
They have access to your emails. They have access to your chats, your meetings, you know, all that kind of stuff. So, let's say I create a new chat here.
Like, say, catch me up on emails, files, and chats. And I could say from a certain person to narrow it down. And then they just give me a summary of stuff.
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So, I don't have to go into each and every one. You know, maybe I've been away on vacation for a week and I want to catch up. So, they can look over the stuff and give me a high-level overview.
Maybe I need to dive into something really quick. And this is kind of the big difference that we put all of our eggs in one basket. Oh, something went wrong.
All right, try it again. You saw it was starting to do its job, though, right? Starting to break it down by emails. That was going to be files and it was going to do chats.
This is where you put all of your stuff in here, and it can look across all that. Yeah, there we go. So, we got chats, files, emails, and kind of catch you up on all that stuff.
You could ask it questions to try to train yourself. Say, like, how can I provide good feedback? Maybe there's a certain challenge that you're having with a Manager or an Employee. And you're like, here's a situation.
How could I maybe solve this problem? Or how could I give this person good feedback to improve the situation? Think of this as a virtual person who you could talk to. So, what are some business situations in which you might have difficulty problem-solving? You can't figure out how to work well with something. You could ask it for feedback and say, do you have any ideas? These are things that I've tried.
Do you have any other ideas for things? You could brainstorm with it. Ask it to help create plans. So, all sorts of different ideas that you can have.
If you're in a chat and you remember, like, somebody came up with an idea for something, you could say, whose idea was it to do such and such? And it can go back in your chat or maybe your emails and find the person who came up with that idea. Because maybe you want to go back and give them credit.
Because you're like, hey, that was a great idea. Who came up with that idea when we were talking about that? Have you ever had a conversation and you're like, oh, who came up with that idea? You could just ask it to find that in your emails or your chats. And don't forget that you always can go into that View Prompts.
Or you can go to the webpage to see all the prompts just for even more ideas of stuff.
