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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

The thinking gets tested first.

Before

Write me a plan for high-value client reactivation.

After

I'm about to spend three hours on a high-value client reactivation plan for autumn. Here's my thinking in bullets. Find the flaw. Ask me three questions that would change the plan before I write it.

The key tip

Describe the problem. Not the answer. Let it find the flaw.

By CIX AI Learning

Use AI to challenge the logic before you spend time polishing the answer.

Learn the method

Five quick-fire tries

Pick one. Test it on real work.

Insight & Decision-making

Have you tried describing the logic aloud?

Paste your reasoning as bullets and ask where the argument is thin.

4 min

Have you tried the three-question challenge?

Ask for three questions that would materially change the plan.

3 min

III

Have you tried a written pre-mortem on a campaign?

Imagine the launch failed and ask what probably went wrong.

5 min

Have you tried asking for your blind spot?

Use it when you are close to the work and need a second read.

3 min

Have you tried “steelman the other side”?

Ask it to make the strongest case against your preferred recommendation.

4 min

Go deeper on this week's topic

HBR: Pre-mortem thinking

Atlassian: Run a pre-mortem

OpenAI: Refine prompts through iteration

Microsoft: Ask better Copilot questions

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 18 · 14:30 · 30 min

One thing, this week

Rubber-duck one decision this week. Post the question that changed it.

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