Overview
Great AI results don't happen by accident they come from knowing how to ask.
In this practical, example-driven session, you'll learn how to craft prompts that pull accurate, polished, business-ready answers out of tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and others. You'll walk through a proven step-by-step method, then apply it to the everyday tasks you already do: drafting communications, digesting long documents, crunching data, and making decisions. There's no coding and no jargon just practical skills that turn any AI tool into a more reliable, faster assistant. Come with your own work tasks in mind and leave with prompts you can use that afternoon.
Areas Covered in the Session
- Why prompting is the single biggest factor in AI results
- The core prompt formula you can reuse for almost any task
- Setting the AI's role, expertise level, and point of view
- Turning fuzzy asks into clear, detailed instructions
- Feeding the AI the right background so it doesn't guess
- Dialing in tone, length, style, and output format
- Prompting for polished emails, letters, and business writing
- Prompting to summarize contracts, reports, and email threads
- Prompting to analyze, sort, and explain spreadsheet data
- Prompting for planning, agendas, checklists, and to-do lists
- Prompting for brainstorming and comparing options
- Iterating: how to refine a weak answer through follow-up questions
- Showing examples to lock in a consistent style ("few-shot" prompting)
- Asking the AI to critique or improve its own answer
- Saving and reusing your best prompts as templates
- Troubleshooting: why a prompt failed and how to fix it
- How prompting differs across ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot
- Starting and growing your own prompt library
Who Will Benefit
- Business Owners
- CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
- Managers of all levels
- Anybody who uses Excel on a regular basis, and want to be more efficient and productive
- Administrators
- Salespeople
- Trainers
- Bankers
- Office Workers
- HR Professionals
Speaker Profile
Ray Evans blends a professional, easy-going style with a strong grasp of adult learning-demonstrated across classroom, seminar, workshop, and live-online delivery, supported by practical, high-retention instructional materials.
Backed by Microsoft certifications, Ray teaches more than 2,500 topics spanning Microsoft Excel, Access, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Publisher-and is one of very few presenters delivering expert-level webinars across all six leading AI cognitive engines: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, Gemini and DeepSeek.
He holds qualifications in Frontline Management, Accounting, Training and Assessment and is certified in Six Sigma business-improvement methodology.
Since 1990, Ray has trained over 40,000 students, business owners, and executives, and authored extensive training documentation, complex reports, and engaging web content-consistently demonstrating exceptional communication and knowledge transfer.
Ray's webinars replicate the in-person classroom experience and include:
A comprehensive step-by-step Learning Guide
Demonstrations and practical exercises
Exercise files; and
Productivity techniques, tips and shortcuts
Instructor
Ray Evans
