Prompting for Productivity
Hands-on techniques for getting clear, useful and checkable answers from AI tools on your real tasks.
- Level
- Beginner
- Duration
- Half day
- Format
- In-house or open cohort
- Online
- Free
What you will learn
- Write prompts that state the task, context and format you need
- Improve a weak answer step by step instead of starting again
- Check AI output against reliable sources
- Build a personal library of prompts you can reuse
Lessons
1. Anatomy of a good prompt
The few parts every effective request has, shown on everyday work examples. Open lesson
2. Context, examples and constraints
How giving background and a sample of what good looks like changes the result. Open lesson
3. Improving answers
Follow-up questions, corrections and checks that turn a first draft into something usable. Open lesson
4. Your prompt library
Capture the prompts that work for your role so the whole team can reuse them. Open lesson
Who it is for
- Staff who already have access to an AI assistant
- Teams that want quick, practical productivity gains
- Anyone who finds AI answers vague or inconsistent
