Mark Nguyen
CEOPassionate trainer focused on helping professionals realise better opportunities in work and business.
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The Claude Essentials
The half day that turns Claude from something you've opened twice into the first thing you reach for
Some of the companies where our students come from
What you'll gain
A setup that actually sticks
Projects, context and instructions, so you stop re-explaining yourself in every new chat.
Your own documents, useful
Upload the real thing and get answers you can trace back to the page they came from.
A reliable read on when it's wrong
The two places Claude will mislead you, and what to never paste in the first place.
Jobs that keep paying you back
Three of your own repeat tasks, packaged up to rerun next week and the week after.
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
The problem was never the prompt. It was the setup
Most people’s experience of Claude is roughly the same. You opened it, asked it something, got an answer that was fine, and closed the tab. Perhaps you did that three or four times. Somewhere in the back of your mind is a suspicion that other people are getting far more out of this than you are, and that you’ve missed the bit where it was explained.
You haven’t missed anything, because it mostly isn’t explained. The gap isn’t clever prompting, and it certainly isn’t a list of magic phrases to paste in. It’s that nobody has shown you how to give Claude your context - what you do, who you do it for, what a good version of this task looks like - or how to hand it your own documents and data instead of typing everything out again. Without that it’s a competent stranger. With it, it’s someone who has read everything you’ve ever written and never gets bored of the boring parts.
That’s what an afternoon is for. We start from an empty account, work on the material you bring rather than a demo file, and don’t move on from a block until the thing we just built is running on your screen. You’ll spend far more of the session typing than watching. We also spend a proper block on where Claude is unreliable and what you should never paste into it, because being useful and being careful are the same skill here.
It’s deliberately small, too. You’ll be able to say “that won’t work for my job because-” and get a real answer, which is the whole reason to do this live instead of watching a video at 1.5×.
This is for you if…
- You've opened Claude a few times and suspect you're missing most of it
- You work with documents, data or writing in some form - any role
- You've got real work you'd like to get finished
- You'd rather build one thing properly than watch ten things demoed
Probably not, if…
- You already use Claude daily and have it set up around your work
- You want a talk about where AI is heading rather than hands-on work
- You can't bring any of your own material on the day
- You need something engineering-focused - that's our Claude Code workshops
The workshop agenda
Every block ends with something done, not just understood
You'll spend more of this afternoon typing than watching. Nothing gets demonstrated and then left behind - every block is built on the work you brought with you, running, and ready to use again on Monday. 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 what you actually do all day
A quick round of what everyone's job involves and where the week goes. We use your real examples for the rest of the session, so this genuinely shapes the afternoon.
- 15:15 25 min
Setting Claude up around your job
The setup nobody shows you, and the single biggest difference between people who find Claude useful and people who don't: projects, which files earn their place, and instructions that persist.
- 15:40 30 min
Asking properly, without the tricks
Not a list of magic phrases. The four things a good request contains, why examples beat adjectives, and how to get from a mediocre first answer to the right one in two moves instead of ten.
- 16:10 10 min
Break
Coffee, stand up, look out of a window. Back at twenty past.
- 16:20 35 min
Working with your own documents
Upload what you brought and put it to work - summarising, comparing, pulling out the clause that matters, answering the question you'd otherwise spend an hour looking for.
- 16:55 35 min
Messy data, and getting it out clean
Spreadsheets, exports and PDFs into something usable, then into the chart or the three sentences someone senior will actually read. Bring the file you've been avoiding.
- 17:30 20 min
When it's wrong, and what not to paste
Where Claude is unreliable and how to catch it in seconds, plus the confidentiality rules of thumb - what's fine, what isn't, and what to do when you're not sure.
- 17:50 10 min
Packaging it up, and Monday morning
We save what you built as things you can rerun, and each pick the one job to automate 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've been putting off since March
Three hours, a small group, and your own work on the screen. Change your mind? Cancel up to 21 days before and we'll refund you in full.