Claude Cowork Certification: For Non-Technical Professionals & Business Owners
Shankha Dey
Sr Director PM @ Salesforce | ex-MSFT
Jason P. Yoong
Co-Founder & COO at Level Up | ex-AMZN
A 5-hour workshop to become a real Claude builder and 2x your productivity
Stop hearing about all the magical productivity gains Claude Cowork provides other people — and build it for your own business.
If you are drowning in repeat work (e.g. email follow-ups, scheduling, file hunting, status updates, meeting prep), this workshop turns Claude Cowork from “cool idea” into a real system that saves you time every week.
In this one-day intensive, you will:
✅ Understand what Cowork can do for you
✅ Create your workspace folder + connect apps (Gmail, Calendar, Drive)
✅ Build 3 Claude Cowork automations for your real business needs
✅ Install and run 3 Skills (feel the automation)
✅ Understand the difference between Claude Cowork vs Skills vs Projects vs Plugins vs AI Agents
✅ Write your own Skill for a repeatable task
✅ Chain skills together (stretch item)
✅ Share what you built, so you leave with working automations, and not just notes
This is not theory and is not “prompt tips.”
We will co-build, troubleshoot, and help you translate your messy real-world workflows into clean, repeatable automations.
Walk out with: hours saved and a reusable playbook you can apply to any process you want to automate.
Spots are limited because we keep it hands-on.
Workshop agenda
- 12:00PM EDT
Why Cowork is different from Claude chat
The mental model shift: you're not prompting, you're delegating work. What Cowork can own vs what stays with you. Live demo of a real task running autonomously and how I did it.
- 12:30PM EDT
Environment setup with safety and permissions you need
Connecting Gmail, Calendar, and Drive via MCP — the three connectors everyone needs first. Alternatively Microsoft connectors. Every student has their workspace folder created and connectors live.
- 1:00PM EDT
Your first 3 Claude Cowork automations. Everyone will build this live:
Morning Brief + Meeting Prep + Document Drafter + Install and run the three pre-built Skills
- 2:00PM EDT
Break (45 minutes)
Take a break. Reflect on what you just learned. And be ready for the second half on building specialized Skills for your job.
- 2:45PM EDT
What Skills are and when to use them vs just asking
Open one of the morning SKILL.md files and walk through it live. Then write own Skill.
- 3:30PM EDT
Advanced workflow: chaining two Skills together
Example: research brief → slide outline → draft doc, all triggered by one command. Students build their own version for their domain.
- 4:15PM EDT
Capstone share + Q&A
Every student shares what they built and time for Q&A.
Who this workshop is for
Professionals new to Claude or Claude Cowork and who want to ramp up fast.
Busy non-technical professionals and business owners who want to build something real.
Leaders and operators who actually want to build with AI (not just chat or search with it).
Prerequisites
Claude Desktop installed
Visit claude.com/download. Not claude.ai - we will need the desktop app.
Claude paid subscription (Pro or Max).
Advanced features (e.g. Cowork, Skills, Projects) require a paid plan.
Windows 11 Pro x64 or macOS with Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
Intel Mac and Windows ARM64 not supported by Claude. Instructors will use Mac
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Shankha Dey & Jason P. Yoong in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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