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Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A practical guide for business leaders and consultants
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A practical guide for business leaders and consultants

by Mark Smith, Megan Smith
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
305 pages
9h 1m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A practical guide for business leaders and consultants

Chapter 7

Champions

Give our crew a dozen rockstars and we’ll super-charge the whole enterprise, learning and adoption will rocket amazingly faster than any top-down mandate ever could! Tools might crack the door open, but it’s those courageous champions who rally the folks and lead everyone across the threshold.

—CHRIS HUNTINGFORD, DIRECTOR OF AI, CLOUD LIGHTHOUSE

In this chapter, you will:

  • Learn about the central role champions communities play in successfully scaling Copilot adoption across your organization

  • Understand how to identify and recruit the right people to champion AI and Copilot

  • Discover practical tools and strategies to develop and empower a champions community that people want to listen to and be part of

Champions as catalysts ...

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