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      One prompt move. Five quick ways to try it. Bring one to the drop-in and make it useful on real work.
    

Before / After

Three moves become one better ask.

Before

Give me ideas for a summer campaign.

After

You're a senior comms planner for a premium retail brand. Give me ten angles for a summer client programme across retail and CRM. Table — angle, insight, one-line headline. 12 words max per cell. No alliteration. No sunset clichés.

The key tip

Role, format, constraint — in one breath. That's the stack.

By CIX AI Learning

Stack role, format and constraint when you need ideas that are useful on the first pass.

Learn the method

Five quick-fire tries

Pick one. Test it on real work.

Planning & Strategy

Have you tried asking for 10 angles, picking 3?

Create breadth quickly, then choose the strongest few for human judgement.

3 min

Have you tried explaining the high-value client segment to it?

Give audience context so the ideas fit behaviour, value and expectations.

4 min

III

Have you tried the QA checklist prompt?

Ask for a launch checklist before work goes into approvals.

3 min

Have you tried reverse-engineering a seasonal plan?

Give it the outputs and ask what strategy, audience and measures sit behind them.

4 min

Have you tried asking for the opposite angle?

Use this when the first idea feels obvious and you want a sharper alternative.

2 min

Go deeper on this week's topic

Microsoft: Build better Copilot prompts

Microsoft: Prompt Gallery

HubSpot: Marketing prompt library

Google: AI creative performance

Drop-in lab

Bring one prompt.
Make it work.

Use the drop-in to try one of this week's five prompts on a live task, tighten the brief, and save a reusable version.

Thu 11 · 14:30 · 30 min

One thing, this week

Stack three moves in one prompt. Post the recipe.

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