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AI & Automation / Microsoft Copilot Training

You’re paying for Copilot.
Two-thirds of your team never use it.

Copilot is costing you money every month. The invoice doesn’t care. Training is how it starts paying you back.

15MPaid Copilot seats worldwide. Microsoft got paid.
35.8%Of employees with access actually use it. The rest is waste.
$23,112Burned per year on idle licenses, per 100 seats.
83.1%ChatGPT’s usage rate. The tools work. Untrained teams don’t.

The Copilot adoption gap

Microsoft sold the seats. Most teams never learned how to use them. Every number on this page comes from Microsoft’s own earnings disclosures and independent survey data.

ACTIVE USERS — 35.8%IDLE LICENSES — 64.2%

Average active-use rate across organizations with Copilot access. The striped portion is paid for and unused.

Sources: Microsoft Q2 FY2026 earnings disclosure, January 2026 (15M paid seats among 450M Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers). Recon Analytics workplace survey of 150,000+ U.S. respondents (35.8% Copilot usage rate versus 83.1% for ChatGPT). Idle-spend figure: 100 seats × $30 per month × 64.2% idle × 12 months.

Run Your Numbers

What the Copilot gap costs you

Idle licenses are the small number. The real cost is the time your untrained people never get back. Enter your seat count and what an hour of your people’s time costs you.

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License math: seats × $30/month × 64.2% idle rate (Recon Analytics). Time math: idle users × 26 minutes saved per day × 250 working days × your hourly cost. The 26-minute figure is the daily saving reported by 20,000 UK government workers in a Microsoft WorkLab study. An NHS trial of 30,000 staff measured 43 minutes; a controlled DWP study measured 19. We use the middle figure. The audit measures yours.

Who Closes the Gap

110,000+ people trained.

Maury Rogow has taught AI and brand storytelling to more than 110,000 students through LinkedIn Learning. He knows exactly where teams get stuck, because he has watched it happen at scale and fixed it, classroom by classroom.

He has run campaigns for Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast, NetApp, and LexisNexis. He is the author of Why Buyers Say No and CEO of Rip Media Group.

This is not a trainer reading slides about a tool he tried last month. This is an operator teaching what he uses every day.

110,000+ LinkedIn Learning students Author, Why Buyers Say No Campaigns for Microsoft & Cisco $250M+ in client revenue
The Real Problem

Your IT team rolled out Copilot. There was an announcement. Maybe a lunch-and-learn.

Then everyone went back to working the way they always have. The licenses renew every month. The output never showed up.

The gap is not the technology. It is the training.

Access does not equal adoption. Employees need structured, hands-on instruction tied to their actual job. Not a feature tour. Not a PDF of prompts. Real reps, on real work, with someone in the room who has done this before.

The Program

Five sessions. From license to habit.

Each session is live, hands-on, and built on your team’s actual documents, inboxes, and spreadsheets. Nobody watches a demo. Everybody works.

SESSION 01

Foundation and prompting

What Copilot is, what it is not, and where it lives inside Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint. Your team learns the prompt structure that determines output quality, then applies it to a real task before the session ends.

SESSION 02

Daily workflows by role

Email triage and drafting in Outlook. Meeting recaps and action items in Teams. First drafts and rewrites in Word. Each person leaves with three workflows mapped to their own job, not a generic use-case list.

SESSION 03

Excel, data, and reporting

Analysis, formula generation, and summaries built from your real spreadsheets. The team that produces your weekly and monthly reporting learns to cut hours from the cycle without losing accuracy.

SESSION 04

Agents, Copilot Studio, and guardrails

Custom Copilot agents connected to your business data, plus the governance side: what data Copilot can see, what it should not, and the usage rules your security team will sign off on.

SESSION 05

Adoption that sticks

Team playbooks, usage measurement, and a 30-day plan with named owners. The goal is not a good training week. It is a usage number that keeps climbing after we leave.

The five-session arc above is the standard build. Every engagement starts with an audit of how your team works today, and the curriculum is adjusted to match. A sales-heavy org gets more Outlook and Teams. A finance-heavy org gets more Excel.

How It Runs

On-site or live virtual

Delivered at your office or over live video. Same hands-on format either way. No pre-recorded modules.

Built from an audit, not a template

Before Session 1, we review how your team actually works: the tools, the bottlenecks, the reporting cycles. The curriculum is built to that.

Measured, not assumed

Usage is tracked before, during, and after the program. You see the adoption number move, or you see exactly where it stalled and why.

Questions
How long does the program run?

Five sessions, typically scheduled over four to six weeks. Spacing the sessions matters: your team applies each session’s work before the next one, and we open each session with a debrief of what worked.

What does it cost?

Pricing depends on team size, format, and how much curriculum customization your organization needs. Start with the free audit or book a consultation and you will have a proposal with exact numbers within days.

We already did a Copilot rollout. Why would this be different?

Most rollouts are an announcement and a feature tour. This program is reps on real work, role by role, with measurement before and after. The difference shows up in the usage number, not the attendance sheet.

Our security team has concerns about Copilot and company data.

Good. They should. Session 4 covers data access, governance, and usage rules directly, and your security team is invited into that session. Guardrails are part of the curriculum, not an afterthought.

Can you train other AI tools, not just Copilot?

Yes. Copilot is the focus of this program because that is where most organizations are already paying for idle licenses. We run a parallel program for Claude, and broader AI training covering ChatGPT and automation workflows is also available.

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