Winning the Copilot Rollout: Adoption Tactics That Work

Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM    This episode explores practical ways to drive Copilot adoption across an organisation. Heather Severino shares clear guidance on identifying early champions, building cross functional readiness, reducing resistance, and designing effective training. She explains how tools such as Loop, Teams, Clipchamp and Copilot features support collaboration, productivity and engagement. The conversation provides a grounded look at how to help teams build confidence with AI and create sustained, secure and well supported usage. 👉 FULL SHOW NOTES https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/791   🎙️ What you’ll learn        • How to identify early adopters who accelerate Copilot uptake  • How to design training that builds confidence and practical skills  • How to prepare IT and support teams for Copilot readiness  • How to use questioning techniques to uncover high value use cases  • How to support teams with tools like Loop, Teams and Clipchamp  • Winning the Copilot Rollout: Adoption Tactics That Work 👉 Chapters 00:00 From Childhood Passions to Tech Leadership 02:14 Curiosity as a Career Catalyst 4:32 Becoming a Global Tech Educator 5:53 Copilot Adoption: Strategy Over Features 9:47 Unlocking Aha Moments Through Better Questions 13:22 Agents, Teams, and the New Age of AI Assistants 16:42 Loop vs. OneNote: The Future of Workflows ✅ Find Heather Online LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/techtrainerheather/ X(Twitter): https://x.com/HeatherSeverino Books: Conversational Geek - eBooks - https://conversationalgeek.com/ebooks/?search=Heather+Severino 🔴 Highlights       • “You want to find the people that are curious about it.”  • “Success to me is that they’re using it, looking at those reports.”  • “We want to come up with a policy for usage and have some of those guardrails in place.”  • “They wanted to have everything in place before they did it.”  • “Find the people that are curious about anything that is cutting edge.”  • “Those are usually the people that are going to want to dig in and learn.”  • “I am getting more questions about agents recently.”  • “The facilitator agent is also great about keeping you on track.”  • “There is some confusion about OneNote and Loop.”  • “I would love to see more crossover and uniformity.”  • “Create was one of those aha moments.”  • “Clipchamp has a lot of the AI capabilities built into it.”  🧰 Mentioned        • Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365  • Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/  • LinkedIn Learning - https://www.linkedin.com/learning/  • Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7  ✅ Keywords      copilot, adoption, microsoft 365, loop, onenote, teams, clipchamp, training, ai skills, power platform, productivity, change management  🔴 Subscribe for all the latest Microsoft MVP News: https://www.youtube.com/nz365guy?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Share this video with a Youtuber friend: https://youtu.be/fYWYexhvqe8 ✅ Recommended Playlist: MVP Show. Hear the latest from Microsoft Business Applications MVPs - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkoKTBGm46RlGnCwVLLPKvsT ✅ Want to become a Microsoft MVP? You need to watch these: How to Become a Microsoft MVP https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7 ✅ Let’s Connect: Collaborate with me here – https://cloverbase.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/nz365guy Website - https://podcast.nz365guy.com/ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy X – https://twitter.com/nz365guy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nz365guy Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nz365guy Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.nz/nz365guy I’m Mark Smith - nz365guy - Helping people reach their full potential I have been a Microsoft Business Applications MVP for over 14 years. I am passionate about helping people reach their full potential, through training, coaching and mentorship. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge (https://www.90daymc.com/) Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nz365guy) If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy). Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith