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Prompting that actually works

For Professionals who use AI at work and want usable output in one or two tries — by briefing it like a good manager briefs a new hire, not by typing one-line prompts. · 15 days · Concepts

A 15-day course
One short lesson a day · go at your own pace
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The days
  1. 1Stop typing, start briefingBy the end you can turn a one-line request into a brief that names the task, context, audience, output, and standard for success.
  2. 2Give it the context it can't guessBy the end you can select and supply the background, audience situation, and purpose that materially change an AI draft.
  3. 3Say what done looks likeBy the end you can define an output's format, length, structure, required content, and boundaries as observable completion criteria.
  4. 4Show it an exampleBy the end you can choose, label, and supply a representative example that teaches the model a pattern without asking it to copy irrelevant details.
  5. 5Set the role and the readerBy the end you can use role and reader framing to set useful perspective, vocabulary, tone, and depth without pretending the model has authority it does not possess.
  6. 6Break the big ask into stepsBy the end you can decompose a large AI task into ordered stages with a review decision between each stage.
  7. 7Iterate like an editorBy the end you can diagnose a draft, preserve what works, and issue a targeted revision instruction that changes one dimension at a time.
  8. 8Ask for options, then chooseBy the end you can request genuinely different options against named criteria, compare their tradeoffs, and make the final choice yourself.
  9. 9Make it show its workingBy the end you can prompt for inputs, assumptions, criteria, inferences, and gaps in a reviewable decision record.
  10. 10Ground it in your materialBy the end you can constrain an AI task to supplied source material, require traceable support, and identify gaps the source cannot answer.
  11. 11Build prompts you can reuseBy the end you can convert a successful work brief into a reusable template whose blanks preserve the decisions future teammates must make.
  12. 12Prompt for numbers and tablesBy the end you can brief an AI to organize numerical material with explicit units, periods, formulas, missing-value rules, and traceable source labels.
  13. 13Fix the brief, not the AIBy the end you can diagnose an unsatisfactory AI output by tracing its defect to missing context, vague criteria, weak examples, wrong framing, or unsupported source material.
  14. 14Build your prompt playbookBy the end you can assemble, test, and explain a five-template Prompt playbook that covers your recurring work without becoming a pile of copied prompts.
  15. 15Brief a real task end to endBy the end you can choose a real workplace task, brief it, stage or generate it, revise it, verify its requirements, and record a defensible human handoff.