Stop Guessing: The Manager’s Approach to Prompting

AI Prompting for Managers — practical guide to delegating to AI effectively | AI prompting for managers, how to write AI prompts, LLM prompt engineering, delegate to AI effectively, manager’s guide to ChatGPT Stop Guessing: The Manager’s Approach to Prompting — treat AI like a team member you brief, not a magic box you guess at | AI delegation skills, prompting large language models, chatGPT for work Discover a simple, repeatable briefing system so you can delegate to AI effectively, get accurate outputs on real work, and turn AI into a reliable productivity partner.

What You'll Learn:

• How to reframe AI prompting for managers as structured delegation instead of guesswork or “magic words.”
• A practical work-brief template for large language models: define goals, provide context, set standards, give examples, and specify format.
• How to translate your existing management and delegation habits directly into better prompts for ChatGPT and other AI tools.
• Why clarity beats cleverness in LLM prompt engineering—and how to avoid endlessly fiddling with prompts that never quite work.
• A quick method to capture key takeaways in writing so you actually remember and act on what you learned about prompting.
• How to identify one specific area of your current workload where AI delegation skills would create immediate value.
• A simple, low-risk experiment you can run this week to test AI on a real task and build confidence in your prompting skills.
• How to spot and avoid common misconceptions about prompting large language models that waste time and reduce output quality.

Episode Content:

• 00:00 - Introduction — why managers keep guessing at AI prompts
• 04:15 - Prompting large language models as structured delegation
• 10:30 - The work-brief model: goals, context, standards, and feedback loops
• 18:40 - Live rewrite: turning a vague request into a manager-grade AI prompt
• 26:05 - Common misconceptions about LLM prompt engineering and “secret prompts”
• 33:20 - Finding one high-leverage use case in your current work
• 40:10 - Tiny actions to practice AI delegation skills this week
• 47:00 - Recap of Stop Guessing: The Manager’s Approach to Prompting and next steps