Mark Nguyen
CEOPassionate trainer focused on helping professionals realise better opportunities in work and business.
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The Claude Cowork Essentials Workshop
Stop watching Claude type. Hand it the whole job, walk away, and come back to finished work
Some of the companies where our students come from
What you'll gain
Claude reaching your real work
Connected to your documents, spreadsheets and mail, so it can act instead of waiting to be fed.
Whole jobs handed over
Give a multi-step task once and watch it get done, rather than steering every turn.
Checkpoints where you want them
Decide exactly where it should stop and ask, and where it shouldn't.
Work that runs on a schedule
One job happening every Monday, without you remembering to start it.
How it sticks
A workshop designed for lasting impact
Discover
You see the actual gap - not clever prompting, but giving Claude your context and your own material to work on.
Build
Set up around your own work, and running on it before the session is half over.
Trust
The two places Claude will mislead you, caught in seconds - so using it well and using it safely become one habit.
Compound
Three of your own jobs, packaged up to rerun next week, without starting from a blank chat.
About this session
A colleague you brief, not a box you type into
Almost everyone’s relationship with Claude is a conversation. You ask, it answers, you read it, you ask again. It’s useful, and it is also an enormous amount of you in the loop - you’re still the one carrying the work from step to step, doing the fetching and the pasting and the deciding what happens next.
The change worth learning is handing over the whole job. Not “write me a paragraph about this” but “go through these, work out which ones matter, and draft what needs drafting” - given once, to something that can open your files and use your tools, and left to get on with it while you do something else.
That change is smaller than it sounds and harder than it looks. It needs Claude connected to where your work actually lives, and it needs you to brief properly, which most of us are out of practice at. Anyone who has managed someone will recognise the shape of it: describe the outcome, not the keystrokes; say where to check in; be specific about what “done” means.
So we spend the afternoon doing it. Connect things up, hand over a real job, watch it go wrong somewhere, and learn what to have said instead. Then a proper block on trust - reviewing delegated work without simply redoing it, and being honest about the jobs that still shouldn’t leave your hands.
It’s deliberately small. You’ll be able to say “that would never be allowed near our file server” and get a real answer, which is the whole reason to do this live rather than watching a video at 1.5×.
This is for you if…
- You already use Claude and mostly ask it questions one at a time
- There's a job you'd hand to a junior colleague if you had one
- You can connect Claude to at least some of your work tools, or know who can
- You'd rather hand over one job properly than watch ten things demoed
Probably not, if…
- You've never used Claude - start with Claude Essentials
- You want a comparison of AI agent platforms to buy
- You're looking for the engineering-focused version - that's Claude Code Essentials
- You want something that needs no supervision at all - that isn't honest yet
The workshop agenda
You'll spend most of this afternoon not typing
Which is the point. Every block ends with a job that ran on your own material while you watched it happen. The running order below is UK time; the session times at the top of the page are shown in yours.
- 15:00 15 min
Welcome, and the job you'd hand over
A quick round of what everyone would delegate first if they could. We use your real jobs for the rest of the session, so this genuinely shapes the afternoon.
- 15:15 25 min
Chatting versus delegating
What actually changes when Claude can open your files and use your tools, why most people never make the switch, and the one habit that gets in the way - describing steps instead of describing the outcome.
- 15:40 30 min
Connecting it to your work
Documents, spreadsheets, mail and chat. What connects, what it can see once connected, how to scope that down, and what to do when your IT policy says no to half of it.
- 16:10 10 min
Break
Coffee, stand up, look out of a window. Back at twenty past.
- 16:20 35 min
Your first proper handover
A real multi-step job on your own material, given once and left to run. We'll watch what it does, stop it where it goes wrong, and learn to write the brief that would have prevented that.
- 16:55 35 min
Trust, checkpoints and going wrong
Where to make it stop and ask, how to review what it did rather than rereading everything, and an honest look at the jobs it still shouldn't have. Bring something you'd be nervous about delegating.
- 17:30 20 min
Making one of them recur
Turning the job you just handed over into one that happens every week without you remembering - and knowing how you'll find out if it stops.
- 17:50 10 min
Packaging it up, and Monday morning
We write yours down so it can be rerun and handed on, and each pick the one job to delegate first when you're back at your desk.
Details, agenda and timing subject to change.
Before you book
What happens next
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Your ticket arrives in your inbox
It has your joining details, your receipt and a calendar invite, ready to add straight away.
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You get a bespoke setup guide
Everything installed and ready before the day, so no session time is lost to downloads. You and your fellow students start straight on real work.
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The workshop itself
Our instructors show you how to use Claude, drawn from their own experience in industry. Then you do the real work, and leave with workflows you can use the very next morning.
Need to move to another date, or can't make it any more? Reply to your confirmation email and we'll sort it. You can cancel up to 21 days before the workshop and we'll refund you in full.
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Arpan Bakshi
Chief Growth Officer & Director of EducationLeads curriculum design and workshop delivery at Atlas Learn. Formerly an educator and trainer, specialising in breaking down complex technical concepts into accessible, hands-on learning paths.
Before you book
Questions people actually ask
Bring the job you'd give away tomorrow
Three hours, a small group, and your own work getting done on the screen while you watch. Change your mind? Cancel up to 21 days before and we'll refund you in full.