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This episode explores practical ways to drive Copilot adoption across an organisation. Heather Severino shares clear guidance on identifying early champions, building cross functional readiness, reducing resistance, and designing effective training. She explains how tools such as Loop, Teams, Clipchamp and Copilot features support collaboration, productivity and engagement. The conversation provides a grounded look at how to help teams build confidence with AI and create sustained, secure and well supported usage.

🎙️ FULL SHOW NOTES
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/674

👉 What you’ll learn

• How to identify early adopters who accelerate Copilot uptake
• How to design training that builds confidence and practical skills
• How to prepare IT and support teams for Copilot readiness
• How to use questioning techniques to uncover high value use cases
• How to support teams with tools like Loop, Teams and Clipchamp

✅ Highlights

• “You want to find the people that are curious about it.”
• “Success to me is that they’re using it, looking at those reports.”
• “We want to come up with a policy for usage and have some of those guardrails in place.”
• “They wanted to have everything in place before they did it.”
• “Find the people that are curious about anything that is cutting edge.”
• “Those are usually the people that are going to want to dig in and learn.”
• “I am getting more questions about agents recently.”
• “The facilitator agent is also great about keeping you on track.”
• “There is some confusion about OneNote and Loop.”
• “I would love to see more crossover and uniformity.”
• “Create was one of those aha moments.”
• “Clipchamp has a lot of the AI capabilities built into it.”

🧰 Mentioned

• Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
• Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/
• LinkedIn Learning - https://www.linkedin.com/learning/
• Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7

✅ Keywords
copilot, adoption, microsoft 365, loop, onenote, teams, clipchamp, training, ai skills, power platform, productivity, change management

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