This practical course shows project managers how to use Claude AI to accelerate the everyday work of running a project — from drafting charters and task lists to producing status reports, kickoff decks, and executive dashboards. Through live, prompt-by-prompt demonstrations, you'll see how Claude can turn rough ideas into polished deliverables in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, convert PDFs into structured data, visualize information as org charts and dashboards, and connect directly to the apps you already use, such as Gmail, Slack, and Google Calendar.

The emphasis throughout is on using Claude as an assistant rather than a replacement: getting a strong head start on documents, automating repetitive deliverables, and saving hours on the routine work of project communication and reporting. By the end of the course, you'll have a working set of prompts, workflows, and add-in techniques you can apply immediately to your own projects.

Topics Covered

1. Navigating the Claude.ai workspace — sidebar, chats, projects, and assigning roles in your prompts
2. Drafting project charters and generating task lists with realistic timelines
3. Visualizing project data — org charts, Gantt charts, and other diagrams from your own files
4. Turning unstructured files into usable data — PDF-to-Excel extraction and file uploads
5. Using connectors to integrate Claude with Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, and other apps
6. Writing with the Claude add-in for Word — status reports, executive letters, and document edits
7. Building decks with the Claude add-in for PowerPoint — kickoff presentations and dashboard slides
8. Analyzing data with the Claude add-in for Excel — summaries, pivot-style breakdowns, charts, and executive dashboards