How Participants Learned to Make AI Their Assistant, Not Their Replacement
Date & Time: Thursday, July 24
Location: 1449 S. Michigan Avenue
Hosted by: Entrenuity
Workshop Overview
Generative AI tools have exploded in use but most people are still using them as ad hoc experimentation by typing questions and hoping for beneficial answers. In this session, partnered with Entrenuity, I worked with local entrepreneurs and professionals to move past curiosity and into confident, structured use of generative AI.
The session focused on one core skill: learning to prompt with intention. Using my self-designed 5-Part Prompt Structure, participants created prompts that produced consistent, high-quality results. From there, they leveled up their generative AI use from cool to a reliable outcome. They accomplished this by designing their own AI personas, giving generative AI a clearly defined role, voice, and ethical guardrails so it functions as a reliable assistant, not a random chatbot.
The session closed with a live demo showing how to take scattered notes across paper and digital notebooks and transform them into clean, organized deliverables using the persona they built.
What Participants Left With:
- A working understanding of generative AI and how it differs from automation.
- A completed 5-Part Prompt Structure they can apply immediately.
- A custom AI persona built and tested during the session.
- A repeatable method for turning rough notes into polished, organized outputs.
Inside the Session
The session opened by grounding participants in what AI actually is and isn’t by showing the separation of generative AI from automation and establishing that most people have already been using automated AI in their daily lives for years. From there, I introduced the 5-Part Prompt Structure: Purpose, Audience, Role, Description, and Length. This prompt structure gives participants a repeatable method for producing clear, consistent results regardless of the generative AI tool, like ChatGPT, Claude, or other LLM’s, they use.
The second half of the session shifted focus to mindset, moving participants away from treating generative AI as a task completer and toward using it as a capable assistant with a defined role in an understood context. A live demo brought it all together, showing how to build a persona and use it to transform rough notes into a polished agenda. Several participants applied this in real time and left with complete project plans. The session closed with next steps for using personas on future projects.
Key Takeaways
1. Clear prompts create clear results.
2. Personas are how you elevate generative AI from a tool to your assistant.
3. Generative AI is your assistant, not your replacement.
Participant Reflections
“I finally understood how to give AI real direction.”
“This session made AI feel human and useful, not overwhelming.”
“The 5-Part Prompt framework changed how I write everything.”
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If you’d like a recap of the session, a copy of the 5-Part Prompt Structure, or want to bring this workshop to your organization, let’s connect:
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