Microsoft Copilot and other AI-powered assistants offer phenomenal efficiency gains. They can summarise meetings, draft documents, analyse data, generate insights, and automate repetitive tasks. These tools have the potential to transform productivity across organisations.
Yet, time and again, I hear the same story: “We have Copilot, but no one is really using it.” Or worse: “People don’t even know what it can do.”
This isn’t a technology problem—it’s a change management problem.
For decades, every major enterprise technology rollout has been accompanied by structured training, adoption programmes, and clear guidance on how to integrate new tools into daily workflows. We wouldn’t roll out a new CRM, ERP, or collaboration platform without a plan to help people use it effectively.
So why is Copilot being treated differently?
Simply “switching on” AI tools isn’t enough. Organisations need to:
✅ Educate employees on what these tools can do and how they align with their work.
✅ Provide use case-driven training that helps teams see immediate benefits.
✅ Support a cultural shift where AI is seen as an everyday efficiency booster, not just a novelty.
Adoption isn’t automatic. Without proactive enablement, AI capabilities sit unused, and businesses miss out on the productivity gains they were promised.
Tanhill’s Approach: Get Your Team Flying with Copilot
We’ve developed two structured programmes to get teams actually using Copilot, moving them from “What’s this?” to “How did we ever work without it?”
✈️ 1. Rapid Enablement – Getting Off the Ground
👉 Two half-day workshops (online or in person) designed to get business functions and roles immediately realising value from Copilot.
🛫 Workshop 1: What is Copilot? What can and can’t it do? Practical demonstrations and immediate use cases.
🛬 Workshop 2: Hands-on sessions tailored to roles and business functions, ensuring participants leave with a clear plan to embed Copilot into their work.
🎖️ 2. The Pilot’s Licence – Full Qualification
🚀 A 16-week adoption and change programme designed to take teams from initial excitement, through the inevitable grumbling phases (!), and out into the land of enhanced productivity.
📌 Includes:
✅ Champions network setup
✅ Wikis, FAQs, and training materials
✅ MI tracking and adoption KPIs
✅ Weekly user support workshops
✅ “Ask Us Anything” advisory sessions
✈️ The goal? Every trained employee consistently saving at least 1 hour per week by the time they’ve logged their ‘training hours’ and completed their Copilot Pilot log book.
Because let’s do the maths: even the most intransigent, AI-sceptic worker can easily save at least an hour and a half per week using Copilot for simple tasks—writing up meeting minutes, assembling reports, summarising emails. That alone more than pays for Copilot’s monthly cost.
So the real question is: how long will businesses keep paying for AI tools that aren’t being used?
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Let’s Do the Maths on Productivity
Even the most AI-resistant worker can save at least 1.5 hours per week with Copilot:
✅ 30 min/week – Drafting and summarising emails
✅ 20 min/week – Writing up meeting minutes
✅ 40 min/week – Structuring reports and documents
✅ 20 min/week – Searching for information and summarising content
💡 That’s 1.5+ hours saved per user, per week—and at an average salary cost of £25-50 per hour, that’s a £1,500+ productivity gain per employee annually. Copilot costs a fraction of that.