Leadership
Ensure you leverage leadership to help actively drive change through decision-making, conflict management, and communication with employees.
Ensure they understand the ABCs:
- A Active, visible and consistent participation
- B Build a coalition with their executive peers
- C Communicate directly with employees to support landing the change
Executive Sponsors should:
- Help the project team identify and prioritize their top business needs. Encourage shared planning between user enablement and technical implementation teams.
- Play a role in communicating the vision to leaders across the organizations.
- Actively participate in and use the Copilot capabilities to help drive and reinforce enablement.
- Promote the enablement program. Studies show engage employees are 2.6x more likely to fully support a successful AI transformation.
Executive Sponsors may:
- Lead or participate in the organizational AI Council.
- Have purchasing authority for licenses or services from supporting suppliers.
- Be directly accountable for Microsoft 365 or broader digital workplace initiatives.
Target Scenarios
Identifying your target scenarios and business challenges you want to tackle with Copilot can help you easily define your flight crew and success metrics to track the impact Copilot.
- Leverage the Copilot Scenario Library to see how Copilot can help your various business functions
- Use the worksheets in the Copilot SMB Success Kit to help you identify your flight crew
- MS-4007: Discover how to drive enablement of Microsoft 365 Copilot in your organization
Technical Readiness
Microsoft 365 Copilot is built on our existing commitments to data security and privacy, enabling you to always stay in control. It inherits all your existing Microsoft 365 security, privacy, identity, and compliance requirements, so you can be confident that people only see what they have permission to access.
- Leverage the Microsoft 365 Copilot setup guide (link pending) to help get your tenant ready for Copilot
- Use the checklists in the Copilot SMB Success Kit to check existing policies and settings
User Enablement
Use the provided onboarding and training resources to help familiarize your users with Microsoft 365 Copilot and learn how to get the most out of it.
- The Copilot SMB Success Kit includes template emails you can send to your users
- Additional resources are available in the User Onboarding Kit
- Encourage users to sign up for user webinar trainings (Microsoft 365 Copilot license required)
Add Copilot to your existing subscription
Copilot is designed to benefit everyone in an organization. With the expansion of availability to small and medium businesses, you can now purchase Microsoft 365 Copilot as an add-on to your subscription for $30 per user per month if you are using either Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
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