The festive season is almost here and if you’re like most of us, you want to close out the year without loose ends so that you can enjoy your break guilt-free. This is what Copilot for Microsoft 365 is for: your AI assistant that makes finishing tasks effortless, so that you can truly switch off.
Here are five powerful ways Copilot can help you manage your time before the holidays:
1. Turn messy emails threads into meetings in just one click
Instead of scrolling through endless replies, use “Schedule with Copilot” in Outlook to convert a long email threat into a calendar invite with a summarised context and auto-draft agenda.
Try to use this prompt: “schedule a 30-minute meeting with the people in this thread next week; summarise the threat into 5 bullet points and propose an agenda.”
2. Save and reuse your best prompts
Found a prompt that works? Don’t reinvent the wheel. Save it in the Copilot Prompt Gallery and reuse it across apps.
Example to save: “create my Friday wrap-up from this week’s emails, meetings and chats; list open actions with owners and due dates.”
3. Auto-summarise meetings & extract actions without rewatching
Enable transcription in Teams, then let Copilot summarise what you missed – decisions, owners and next steps – so that you can close loops quickly.
Prompt: “from today’s meeting recording transcript, list decisions, owners and deadlines; flag anything due before Friday.”
4. PowerPoint that’s instantly on brand
Last‑minute deck? No problem. Copilot in PowerPoint can pull approved images from your SharePoint asset library, so your slides stay brand‑consistent without the asset hunt.
Prompt: “create a 5‑slide end‑of‑year update for Marketing; use brand images from our SharePoint asset library and include a narrative outline.”
5. One-shot wrap-up: cross-app January handover packet
Copilot can compile a handover document from your recent emails, files and chats, then export to Word or PDF. Perfect for ensuring nothing gets lost over the break.
Prompt: “generate a handover document for my team covering December project status, unresolved actions, key decisions, and January milestones.”
Why it matters
By using Copilot to automate the heavy lifting, summarising, scheduling, drafting and compiling, you free up time to focus on what matters most: switching off and recharging. Because when you return in January, you’ll want to start fresh, not play catch‑up.
Want to learn more about how you can use Copilot in your day to day work life? Join us for a hands-on, interactive webinar exploring Copilot for Microsoft 365, your AI assistant at work.
In this session, we will take a look at:
- Revisit the importance of enterprise grade security & privacy and how you can adopt a security-first ethos amongst staff
- How Copilot works with your data
- How Copilot works across different applications
- Copilot Agents and how to use them effectively
- A live demo of 365 apps with Copilot
This webinar is here to help you use AI more confidently in work, whilst ensuring that you are remaining secure. Developing a strategy for how your business uses AI is crucial to getting the most out of its features, that’s why CSG is here to help guide you.
Register to begin your journey to a strategic AI roadmap today.
