You will uncover the secret connection between AI prompting and effective management delegation. You will discover why treating AI like a certain kind of employee yields dramatically better outcomes. You will learn the essential information AI needs from you to produce valuable, relevant content. You will gain practical insight on how to use AI to even improve your own delegation skills. Watch now to master the art of prompting through delegation.
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This is part six in our Foundation Principles of Generative AI series. In this one, good prompting—good use of generative AI—is basically good management skills. It is good delegation. If you can delegate well, you can prompt well.
One of the things I say all the time in my keynotes and my workshops and things I do when I teach generative AI is that treat these tools like the world’s smartest, most overeager, most helpful, most forgetful interns. They’re so smart. They’ve got PhDs in everything, but they can’t remember a thing. Every time you talk to them, they have no idea what’s going on. It’s like they just arrived at the office. It’s day one. They can’t find the restroom.
If you delegate to them poorly and you say, “write me a blog post about B2B marketing strategy,” you’re going to get crap back. You’re going to get slop because you’ve provided no details. If you delegated that to a real human intern, you’re going to get something wildly off target. If you say, “Hey, intern, here is our company and who we are. Here’s our ideal customer. Here’s our writing style and brand style guidelines. Here is the current state of B2B marketing.” You give them all this stuff and then you say, “write me a blog post about B2B marketing strategy with all that information,” you’re going to get a much better result from the human intern because you gave good directions, you delegated well. You’re going to get a good result from the machines because, again, you delegated well. And the machine having all the extra context, going back to Principle Five: “if you don’t see it, it didn’t happen”. You have to provide this information. When you do, you set up a human being for success; you set up a machine for success.
Again, think of these things like interns. They’re just interns. They’re smart. They’re eager. They’re cooperative. They want to be helpful. They want to do their best. They need your specific guidance. That’s one of the reasons why we have all these different prompting frameworks, like the Trust Insights 5P framework, or the RACE framework, or the Rappel framework. Take your pick as to which ones you want. They all have essentially the same instructions, which are: “here is who you are, here’s the role you’re going to take, here’s all the background information I can possibly give you”. Take this information now and do stuff with it. Behave, act on it. If I can delegate that to you, it’s going to go great.
Good prompting is good delegation. Remember that. That is a fundamental principle. Good prompting is good delegation.
If you’re not good at delegating, ask AI for help. Ask it to say, “How would you delegate this task? What information do you not have?” Give that a try. See how it works. Again, treat these things like engines.
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