Generative AI Prompting Formulas: The keys to your success

All, Artificial Intelligence, Projects

Most people think using AI is just typing a question and hoping for magic. But here’s the truth: The quality of your results depends on one key skill: effective prompting. Without it, you’ll get vague, unhelpful responses. With it, you unlock AI’s full potential....

Have you ever heard of erasure poetry?

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I heard about Erasure Poetry on a blog I follow this morning. According to Wikipedia, “Erasure Poetry is also known as blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion...

So what can be done to make meetings more productive and enjoyable?

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What’s the first word that pops into your head when you hear the word “meetings”? My guess is that most people’s response would not be “fulfilling”, “useful” or “progress”. In fact, my guess is that a...

There’s an art to designing a meeting and/or workshop.

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It’s a balancing act to have the right discussions that result in the¬†desired outcomes. Trying to fit 5 lbs. of stuff into a 3 lb. bag will only end up with a mess and a lot of stuff on the floor. Here are 5 ways to prevent adding too much into a meeting or...

Do your team mates often complain that they don’t get enough emails? Here’s how you can make them happy by sending more.

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Email updates as an alternative to status meetings. Sending an email update to stakeholders prior to a status meeting may enable you to cut the status meeting duration in half or thirds. Emailed status updates are also a great way to address some of the reasons that...

What do people care about hearing in weekly status updates?

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As a follow-up to my post about sending email updates as an alternative (or improvement) to status meetings, here’s list of what people want to see in their status meeting update emails. What to include in the email update. Project Milestones. List the project...

Tips for creating an important presentation!

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For anyone that needs to prepare for a presentation, check out the link to a post from Lukas Liebich below. I especially love the concept of a really bad draft on day 1 and practicing the presentation while cutting onions on day 6. Great share Lukas. Thanks! Original...

What’s the big deal about retrospectives?

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Retrospectives provide an opportunity to inspect and adapt. They allow a team to hit the pause button to really reflect about the work at hand and how the team is working together. The best retrospectives are the ones that result in a couple solid action items that...

Are design thinking, workshopping, and agility related?

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How do design thinking (and human-centered design) relate to workshopping, and agility? These are all compliments to each other to promote innovation. They can be used together to help develop new ideas, test new ideas, integrate ideas from multiple people, and then...

Most of what we do today was once unthinkable

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We prototype. We test. We iterate. And we fail a lot. Until we don’t. Astro Teller, CEO of X, the moonshot factory. Turn your problems into opportunities with curious, diverse teams that aren’t afraid to ask the question How Might We? This short video gets...