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8 steps · ~41 min

Claude for your work

Eight practical steps, in the right order. No technical background needed — just the skills that separate people who get real value from Claude and people who give up after a week.

1

The skill that changes everything

Prompting that works

Most people get mediocre results because they write prompts the way they'd text a friend. The specific techniques that consistently produce better output — with examples you can steal.

6 min

2

Know the real limits before they surprise you

What Claude is actually good at

Claude is excellent at some things and genuinely bad at others. Knowing the difference before you need it saves you from making decisions on bad output without realising it.

5 min

3

Skip the predictable failures

The mistakes everyone makes first

The patterns that trip up almost every new Claude user — being too vague, accepting the first output, not giving context. Knowing them in advance puts you months ahead.

5 min

4

The use case most people start with

Writing and editing with Claude

What actually works for drafts, rewrites, tone adjustments, and editing — and what doesn't. How to direct Claude without losing your own voice in the output.

5 min

5

When to use it and when not to

Research with Claude

Claude is fast and useful for research — and also capable of sounding completely authoritative while being wrong. How to get the value without getting burned.

5 min

6

Stop re-explaining yourself every conversation

Projects: Claude that remembers your context

Projects let you give Claude standing instructions and shared context so you don't start from zero every time. How to set one up and what to put in it.

5 min

7

Build the right instincts

When to trust the output — and when not to

The specific failure patterns you need to know — not to be paranoid about every output, but to catch the ones that actually matter before they become a problem.

5 min

8

Diagnose before you give up

When something goes wrong: fix the prompt

When Claude misses, most people either accept the bad output or give up. The third option: a quick diagnostic process that tells you exactly what to change.

5 min

Official course from Anthropic

Prefer video with a certificate? Anthropic offers a free Claude 101 course — basics with video lessons and a completion certificate.

Anthropic Academy ↗

Where to go next

Getting your team on board?

Once you're getting real value personally, the next move is usually figuring out how to bring your team along. That's a different set of decisions.

Rolling out Claude to your team →All articles →

Free official training

Take these on Claude Academy first

Anthropic’s Claude Academy teaches the product for free and does it better than we could. These are the ones that matter for this path. This path picks up where they stop.

What they leave out: Courses teach capability, not habit. What is missing is the part where you keep doing it in week six, and what to do when your team does not.

Full Claude Academy course map →