The Corporate Desk: Copilot Setup

$9.00

This is your desk if there's a template, a format and a sign-off path for most things, and the tone changes depending on who's above, beside or below your executive.

It turns Copilot into a colleague who knows the house rules. It keeps to your formats and your tone, and checks anything going upward before you send it.

You already know how your desk runs: what counts as urgent, how your executive wants things, who needs to see what first. Copilot can't guess any of that. This setup is where you tell it once, in your Microsoft 365 Copilot custom instructions, so you're not re-explaining it in every chat.

These are your instructions, written up for you to make your own. Change and amend them to suit you, not just the red parts.

What's included

  • One PDF with the full setup for The Corporate Desk, ready to fill in and paste into Copilot custom instructions

  • Where it goes in Copilot Chat, step by step

  • A prompt that gets Copilot to interview you and fill it in, so you're not facing thirty blanks at the end of a day

  • Five first chats to try on your own work, each with what to watch for

What's not included

  • It's a document, not software. There's nothing to install.

  • It isn't legal, HR, IT, security or governance advice. What goes into an AI tool at work is your organisation's call.

  • Custom instructions are a preview feature in Copilot Chat, and some organisations switch personalisation off.

  • I'm not affiliated with Microsoft.

The five desks share the same base setup. What changes from desk to desk is the opening line, the My desk section and the first chats.

This is your desk if there's a template, a format and a sign-off path for most things, and the tone changes depending on who's above, beside or below your executive.

It turns Copilot into a colleague who knows the house rules. It keeps to your formats and your tone, and checks anything going upward before you send it.

You already know how your desk runs: what counts as urgent, how your executive wants things, who needs to see what first. Copilot can't guess any of that. This setup is where you tell it once, in your Microsoft 365 Copilot custom instructions, so you're not re-explaining it in every chat.

These are your instructions, written up for you to make your own. Change and amend them to suit you, not just the red parts.

What's included

  • One PDF with the full setup for The Corporate Desk, ready to fill in and paste into Copilot custom instructions

  • Where it goes in Copilot Chat, step by step

  • A prompt that gets Copilot to interview you and fill it in, so you're not facing thirty blanks at the end of a day

  • Five first chats to try on your own work, each with what to watch for

What's not included

  • It's a document, not software. There's nothing to install.

  • It isn't legal, HR, IT, security or governance advice. What goes into an AI tool at work is your organisation's call.

  • Custom instructions are a preview feature in Copilot Chat, and some organisations switch personalisation off.

  • I'm not affiliated with Microsoft.

The five desks share the same base setup. What changes from desk to desk is the opening line, the My desk section and the first chats.