Autonomous Work with Cowork & ScoutLearn by doing
Hands-on, guided exercises for delegating real work to Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork.
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Putting AI to work in everyday manager workflows
The shift: You've used Copilot to get answers. Now it does the work.
Skills for every task
Delegate multiple steps to Cowork such as setting up an event for your team, creating your team rhythms, or setting up all the assets and communications for a project.
📄Documents & decksDraft, build, and polish the files you live in — reports, models, slides, and PDFs.
📅Calendar & meetingsTriage your week, schedule the right things, and walk in prepped with a briefing.
💬Messages that landWrite emails and Teams posts that read the room, tuned to each audience.
🎯Tailored to youTeach Cowork your process once, then reuse it on every task.
The big idea: The first three work out of the box. Skills are what make it yours.
How does Cowork actually work?
With Work IQ, Cowork takes your ideas, your work, and your collective team's progress forward into new deliverables, meetings, and communications.
1️⃣Grounded in Work IQReasons over your emails, meetings, files, chats, and people — not fragments you point it at.
2️⃣Plans & proposesBreaks the goal into steps, asks clarifying questions, and shows progress you can steer or stop.
3️⃣You approveYou approve every action before it happens — send, schedule, decline, share.
4️⃣Executes in Microsoft 365Runs in a secure cloud, then saves outputs to OneDrive — labeled and ready to share.
Your flight plan
✈️Team Meeting Prep with CoworkReview a scheduled meeting with agenda and invites, then build your own — find a time, draft the agenda, and capture notes automatically.Start flight →🛠️One-on-One Prep with CoworkBuild the automation, then scale it across your team — schedule meetings, deliver personalized prep briefs, and generate meeting recaps.Start flight →
🚀Optional · take it homeExplore Microsoft ScoutTake the controls and pick your path: build your own custom skill, or hand Cowork a whole job to run.Explore →🎓Optional · take it homeLearn Cowork with CoworkNot a flight, just a bonus. Download a custom skill that teaches you Cowork on your own time, using a real task you bring.Grab the skill →ResourcesOfficial docs and guides to go deeper after the flights.View →