Master advanced prompting and workflow techniques in Claude, optimise your output and build reliable AI systems as a working professional.
1 day course 10am - 5pm Live Online or Classroom-based
What you will learn
- Mastering advanced Claude techniques, moving beyond one-off prompts to build repeatable AI systems that boost everyday productivity.
- How to choose confidently between Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku while judging when extended thinking earns its cost.
- Structuring long prompts with clear sections and worked examples, sharpening Claude's judgement and lifting the quality of output.
- How to turn Project instructions into a working specification, curating knowledge so Claude stays accurate and on-brief.
- Packaging repeatable tasks into reusable Skills, saving hours of rework and turning expertise into shareable, dependable tools.
- How to connect Claude to live data and everyday systems, working across multiple sources within a single request.
- Delegating multi-step tasks to Claude Cowork, setting approval gates that keep automated work safe, accountable and on-track.
- How to build a small test set that catches errors before they reach clients, safeguarding trust and consistency.
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Course materials
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Latest Mac or PC ready to go
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Course Outline for Claude Advanced
Where Advanced Use Begins
- Systems rather than one-off prompts: what advanced use means in practice
- Choosing between Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku
- Extended thinking: when the extra reasoning pays for itself
- Matching the layer to the task: chat, Project, Style, Skill, connector or agent
Advanced Prompt Architecture
- Structuring long prompts: sections, labels and delimiters
- Few-shot prompting: teaching format and judgement by example
- Separating the brief from the material
- Asking Claude to plan first, then approving the plan
- Building evaluation criteria into the prompt
- Meta-prompting: using Claude to write and critique your prompts
Projects as Working Systems
- Project instructions as a specification
- Curating knowledge: what to upload, what to leave out
- Instructions, Style or prompt: which layer holds which rule
- What memory holds and where it fits alongside a Project
- Versioning instructions and keeping a change log
- Shared team Projects and who owns the instructions (Team and Enterprise)
- Diagnosing a Project that has stopped behaving
Skills: Packaging Repeatable Work
- Skill, Project, Style or saved prompt: what each is for
- Anatomy of a Skill: instructions, templates and worked examples
- Writing a Skill without code, from a process you already carry out
- Descriptions that make a Skill fire reliably
- Practical exercise: turning a recurring task into a working Skill
- Demonstration: interactive Artifacts as small internal tools
Connectors and Live Data
- How Claude reaches other systems and the connector directory
- Permissions in plain English: what Claude sees and acts as
- Working across two or more systems in a single request
- Failure modes: stale data, partial access, silent gaps
- Getting a connector approved internally (Team and Enterprise)
Agentic Working: Delegating Multi-Step Tasks
- From asking for output to delegating a task with constraints
- Claude Cowork: working directly with your own files and folders and why it is not Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork
- The delegation brief: goal, boundaries, checkpoints, definition of when it's complete
- Approval gates: deciding what Claude may do unattended
- Scheduled tasks and Claude in Chrome browsing on your behalf
- Practical exercise: delegating a multi-step task end to end
Quality Control and Reliability
- A small test set of prompts you rerun whenever something changes
- Comparing outputs across models and versions of your instructions
- Where hallucination hides in long agentic runs
- Deciding which steps need a human signature
Building and Documenting Your Own Advanced Workflow
- Choosing a recurring job from your own week worth systematising
- Designing it: which layers, in what order
- Building it: Project, Style, Skill and connector working together
- Testing it against a case you already know
- Documenting it so a colleague could pick it up without you
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- Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification.
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