Microsoft Copilot for HR: From People Admin to People Strategy

About the Course:

Great HR teams don't just process people data; they shape culture, careers, and company outcomes. This power-packed 90-minute session shows HR teams exactly how to use Microsoft Copilot across the entire M365 ecosystem to escape admin overload and step into strategic, high-impact work. You'll learn how to analyse HR data in Excel using plain English, draft job descriptions, policies, and offer letters in Word, build leadership decks and town hall presentations from a single prompt, summarise interviews and review meetings in Teams, manage your inbox with AI in Outlook, and even build a custom AI agent to automate recurring HR workflows in M365 Copilot Studio. By the end, your HR team will spend less time on paperwork and more time on people.

Why This Course?

HR teams lose hundreds of hours every quarter on admin work, drafting JDs, writing policy documents, formatting offer letters, scheduling interviews, summarising review meetings, and answering the same employee questions on repeat. Copilot ends that grind, but only if you know the right prompts and patterns for HR work. This course is not a feature tour. It's a hands-on workshop built around real HR scenarios, recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, employee engagement, policy roll-outs, and town halls, so you walk away with prompts and workflows you can use the very next morning.

Why Now?

HR is being rewritten by AI, quietly, but quickly. CHROs are openly saying that the next generation of HR professionals will be expected to do more with leaner teams, faster turnarounds, and sharper people insights, and Copilot is the single biggest lever to make that happen. Learning Copilot today is the new equivalent of mastering HRIS systems a decade ago, a quiet, compounding career advantage. The earlier you adopt, the more strategic (and visible) you become inside the business.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this 90-minute session, HR professionals will be able to:

• Use Copilot in Excel to analyse headcount, attrition, hiring funnels, and engagement survey data in seconds.
• Draft job descriptions, offer letters, HR policies, and employee communications in Word with Copilot's drafting power.
• Generate HR-ready PowerPoint decks (town halls, leadership reviews, L&D sessions) from a single prompt or outline.
• Capture interview notes, review-meeting summaries, and follow-ups instantly using Copilot in Teams.
• Triage HR inboxes (employee queries, hiring managers, candidates) and draft on-tone replies in Outlook.
• Build a basic custom Copilot agent in M365 Copilot Studio for recurring HR tasks, onboarding, FAQs, and policy lookup.

Who is the Target Audience?

• HR professionals across talent acquisition, HR operations, HR business partnering, L&D, and employee experience.
• HR managers and team leads are responsible for hiring, onboarding, performance, and engagement.
• Talent acquisition specialists, recruiters, and sourcing teams are handling high volumes of candidates and JDs.
• HR analysts, people analytics teams, and shared services teams operating on the M365 stack.
• CHROs, HR heads, and HR L&D leaders are evaluating AI adoption inside their function.

Basic Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of core HR workflows (recruitment, onboarding, performance, policies, engagement).
• Day-to-day comfort with Microsoft 365 apps, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook.
• Access to a Microsoft 365 account with a Copilot licence (recommended for live, hands-on practice).
• No prior AI or coding experience required; the course is fully beginner-friendly on the AI side.