Welcome to Week 6. The final week.
If you’ve been with me since Week 1, look at what you’ve got. Claude knows who you are. It’s connected to your tools. It builds your morning briefing before you sit down, and last week you killed your worst workflow and turned it into a skill that runs on command.
Up to now, all of that has been for you.
This week, we hand it to your team. This is where Cowork stops being a personal tool and starts moving your whole company.
Below is this week’s video, about 13 minutes. I walk through the Team and Enterprise setup, show you how plugins work, and build a real skill live, the monthly financial synopsis I now run for both brands. That one took a 30 to 45 minute conversation and zero code.
Week 6, step by step:
Explor Team and Enterprise options. In Settings (click on your name in the bottom left side of Cowork), click Billing, then Adjust Plan. Your default account is an Individual account. Click the Team and Enterprise button under the headline. Consider your potential number of users and decide if migrating to a Team or Enterprise account is right for you.
Install a plugin. In Cowork, open the plugin marketplace. Plugins are packaged sets of skills built for specific kinds of work: marketing, sales, brand voice, project management, and design. Pick one that fits a team or function in your company. Install it. Suddenly, Cowork knows how to run a brand review, generate a competitive analysis, draft an email sequence, or whatever the plugin does. Out of the box, no skill-building required.
Build a team skill. Last week, you built a skill for a workflow that only you do. This week, build one for a workflow your team does. Examples: “qualify a new lead,” “kick off a project,” “review a quote before it goes out.” Same pattern as Week 5, but the trigger phrase and instructions should make sense for anyone on your team to use, not just you.
Train one teammate. Pick one person on your team who’ll get the most leverage from this. Block an hour on the calendar. Sit with them. Walk them through Weeks 1 through 4: install Pro, set up Cowork, build their Personal Preferences, connect their tools, and stand up their morning briefing. They won’t be at your level by the end of the session. They’ll be a few weeks ahead of where most of their peers ever get.
Make it institutional. Add “Set up Cowork, first 30 days” to your new hire onboarding checklist. Document your team’s skill from step 2 in a shared doc so anyone can find and use it. Pick a recurring slot (monthly works) for a 15-minute “what’s new in Cowork” share at your leadership meeting.
How we used Cowork at our office this week: I built the financial synopsis skill I mentioned above. I used to generate the spreadsheets and then build that report by hand every month, for both brands. Now it’s a conversation and a saved skill. We’ve also got a new team member starting next week, and we’re showing her Cowork from day one. That sets the precedent early: this is how we work here, and we’re handing you the tools from the start.
What I’m expecting from you this week: Pick one person on your team. Share one skill with them, or sit down and solve one of their pain points together. Just one. That’s the whole game now, moving this past yourself.
This week’s homework, in one line: Hand one thing you’ve built to one person on your team, then reply and tell me what you handed off.
That’s a wrap on Cowork Mondays. Six weeks ago, this was a blank Claude account. Now you’ve got a setup that knows you, runs your workflows, and is ready for your whole team. Nearly 1,000 of you followed along, and that means a lot to me.
This was never about replacing your people. It’s about letting them focus on what humans are great at while the AI handles the rest. Coworkers, side by side.
Thank you for being here. The full playbook stays free and public, so send it to anyone you want to bring along.
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AI will never replace the need to communicate well with your team, and this week's YouTube video is all about the Quarterly Check-in Process that changed the way we do performance reviews at a tour company. Check it out!
