Crash Course: Prompt My Leadership—Effectively Preparing for Leadership Discussions with AI

Introduction: AI as a Sparring Partner for Leadership

• We’ll take a look at the role of AI in leadership—briefly and clearly.
• Conceptual Model: AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Decision-Maker.
• We're using some simple initial prompts to prepare for the conversation.

The Anatomy of Good Prompts for Leadership Situations

What makes a good prompt?

• Context: Who are you? Who are you talking to? What is the situation?
• Purpose of the conversation: reason for the conversation, goal of the conversation, leadership goal—three different things
• Role and Tone: How Should the AI Act?
• Desired outcome: Create a guide, draft text, and develop a scenario.

The REFLECT Framework for Leadership

• Prompt Framework specifically for leadership:
  • Role – Environment – Focus – Level – Expectation – Constraints – Tone
• We'll compare weak prompts versus strong prompts—and show you how to optimize your own prompts.

Preparing for Management Meetings with AI

Preparing for Standard Conversations

• We are working on feedback meetings and goal-setting meetings.
• You create a conversation guide and develop a structure and narrative flow.

Preparing for difficult conversations

• Feedback and Conflict Discussions: We develop ways to phrase difficult messages.
• You will formulate critical questions and develop language that helps de-escalate situations.
• Using AI, we simulate a change in perspective: How might the employee react?

Insight: Using AI as a Sparring Partner

• Role-playing with AI, simulating conversation flows, and generating “what-if” scenarios.