Microsoft Copilot training for UK teams, on your own files, with the permission checks done first.

"Copilot" is three different things, and the training is different for each. Copilot Chat comes with every Microsoft 365 business plan at no extra cost; it answers from the web and from what you paste in, but it does not read your mailbox or files. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is a paid add-on that works inside Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and draws on the mail, files and meetings each person can already open. The full Microsoft 365 Copilot licence does the same for larger firms on E3 and E5.

If only Copilot Chat is switched on, training is about prompting, checking output and what is safe to paste in. Once the paid licence is on, it is about the work inside each app, and about what Copilot can now find. Most firms we speak to are somewhere in between: a few licences bought, most staff on Copilot Chat, and no shared way of using either.

Microsoft UK list prices as published, read 19 October 2026; Copilot Business is for organisations under 300 users and sits on top of Business Basic, Standard or Premium. Confirm the current figure with your Microsoft partner.

Every exercise uses the team’s own emails, documents and spreadsheets rather than sample files, because the point is for people to leave able to do Tuesday’s work faster, not to have seen a demo.

The paid Copilot can surface anything a person already has access to. That is the feature, and it is also the risk: in most tenancies a few SharePoint sites, Teams or shared folders are open to everyone in the company when they should not be, and nobody noticed because nobody went looking. Copilot goes looking. A salary spreadsheet shared to "everyone" two years ago becomes an answer to the question "what does Sam earn?"

So for a firm buying the paid licence, our Copilot training covers the checks that matter before licences go out: sites and folders shared with everyone, guest access, sensitivity labels on the documents that need them, and whether Teams meetings are transcribed. It is not a full security audit, and we say so; it is the short list that decides whether Copilot is safe to switch on for everyone.

Copilot has the widest choice of any AI training, because Microsoft partners and the big course providers all run it. The useful split is in-house training for a team, priced per session, against public courses priced per head. Once six or more people need the same thing, in-house is cheaper per head and uses your own files; for one or two people, a public course is usually the better buy.

Each provider’s own published price, read 19 October 2026, ex VAT where stated, as listed in our full comparison of UK AI training providers. For a team of twelve, an £895 workshop is about £75 a head; the same twelve on public courses would be £3,300 or more.

Before: a short skills assessment so the session starts where your team is, the list of tasks people most want help with, and, for the paid licence, the permission checks above. During: half a day or a full day, in person in London or remotely across the UK, with every person working on their own files from the first hour. After: the saved Copilot prompts, a one-page AI use policy, the written materials, and a short note of what the team can now do and what still needs support. We usually deliver within three weeks of booking.

Copilot is the natural choice for a firm that lives in Outlook, Teams and SharePoint, because it works where the work already is. It is a weaker fit for a firm whose documents sit in Google Workspace or a practice-management system, or one that mainly wants long-document review and drafting, where Claude or ChatGPT often do better at a lower price per seat. We train on all three, so we will tell you if the licence you are about to buy is the wrong one.