Microsoft Copilot Pro in Practice

Copilot Pro Foundations in Government

- What Copilot Pro is and how it supports APS work

- Key differences between Copilot Pro and enterprise Copilot

- APS-specific considerations: data flow, FOI, and compliance guardrails

- Lessons learned from the APS Copilot trial

Copilot Pro in Everyday APS Documents & Communication

- Drafting, rewriting, and summarising briefs and reports in Word

- Outlook efficiencies: meeting prep, reply automation, and managing inbox load

- Teams and PowerPoint: generating recaps, action lists, and slides from meeting notes

- Hands-on prompt lab: fixing weak prompts and tailoring outputs to APS tone

Copilot Pro for Numbers, Trends & Reporting

- Using Copilot Pro to analyse finance, contracts, and service delivery data

- Spotting trends, preparing reports, and summarising findings

- Data privacy risks: when not to use Copilot Pro and why

- Guided scenario exercise: solve a reporting challenge with Copilot Pro

Ethical, Safe, and Sustainable Copilot Pro Use

- Managing APS values, FOI, privacy, and bias risks

- Human-in-the-loop practices: when to edit, override, and validate outputs

- Building a role-specific prompt library and reusable templates

- Guided scenario exercise: complete an APS-specific use case end-to-end with Copilot Pro, then team share-back