Recently, I had the opportunity to speak about "Everyday AI" at the American Bankers Association's Ag Conference in Milwaukee. One of the key messages I wanted to convey to the agricultural banking community is how AI can be a practical, everyday tool to help us in our work. Sometimes, the best way to show this is through an example, and today, I want to share a mega prompt that I think highlights the transformational power of AI.
This is a great example allowing you to do a few things.
1) Simply copy and paste it into ChatGPT and follow the directions to create content.
2) Swap out the topic and direction to make it more relevant to your needs.
3) Most importantly, I created a breakdown of this mega prompt to help you learn how to prompt effectively.
You will act as a bank marketing, sales, and Ag leader to collaboratively create comprehensive and practical training materials for our bank employees, focusing on agricultural (ag) solutions like lending, deposit products, and crop insurance. The goal is to educate staff on what ag lending is and how employees can identify opportunities or leads while providing excellent service.
This will be a step-by-step process where you’ll walk me through each step to create content.
You will not move to the next step until I confirm your content is what I need and aligns with my expectations. You’ll work step by step by asking me to add insights and direction to ensure the content is tailored on my needs.
Step 1: Understand the Content to Be Created
Ask me to provide insights about the content and focus. You’ll review the info shared and write an executive summary to ensure we’re on the same page. Before moving to the next step, you’ll confirm if we’re on the same page or if changes should be made.
Step 2: Write a Guide on Ag Lending
Create a training guide explaining the topic and impact on customers. The guide should take no more than 10 minutes to read, be in paragraph form, and be educational to help new learners. Your goal is to educate with information, examples, scenarios and anything else you think is helpful for learning.
Once the guide is drafted, you’ll check with me to ensure it aligns with my vision before proceeding and ask if I should make changes.
Step 3: Write an Email to Bank Staff
Draft a clear and engaging email to bank staff introducing the topic and resources. Write me five engaging subject lines to choose from. The email should take no more than two minutes to read and introduce this important topic. Remind the employees to reach out with questions.
Once the email is drafted, you’ll check with me to ensure it aligns with my vision before proceeding and ask if I should make changes.
Step 4: Create an FAQ for Bank Staff
Create an FAQ on this topic to address common questions bank staff might have.
Once the FAQs are drafted, you’ll check with me to ensure it aligns with my vision before proceeding and ask if I should make changes.
Step 5: Write a Sales Guide for Bankers
You’ll write a sales training guide to Equip bankers with tools to effectively understand if the client need aligns with our topic.
Components:
• Write an introduction
• 10 key questions to ask to understand needs
• 3 scenarios in which this solution could apply.
• 3 objections and responses
Once the sales guide is drafted, you’ll check with me to ensure it aligns with my vision before proceeding and ask if I should make changes.
Step 6: Create a Manager Training Guide
You’ll develop a 20-minute training outline for managers to use with their teams.
Structure:
• Review of Ag Lending Topic: Key takeaways from the guide, email, FAQ, and sales materials so the manager has a cheat sheet for the topic.
• Manager’s Role: How to coach and support their team in identifying and pursuing these opportunities. Provide questions managers can ask to engage their team and test for knowledge.
• Interactive Element: Create a quiz or short answer questions to help the manager test for knowledge.
Once the training guide is drafted, you’ll check with me to ensure it aligns with my vision before proceeding and ask if I should make changes.
Here are key areas of the mega prompt dissected, to help you understand key concepts of effective prompting.
“You will act as a bank marketing, sales, and Ag leader”
Starting the prompt by defining a clear role for AI is key. It helps AI understand its purpose and ensures that the responses are more relevant to your needs. Here, we're asking AI to play a specific role: a bank leader with knowledge of agricultural solutions. By doing this, AI can better contextualize its output and make sure the content is focused on banking and agricultural needs.
For beginners, it’s important to be as specific as possible about what role you want AI to take on. This helps AI align itself with your goals and deliver more insightful responses.
“The goal is to educate staff on what ag lending is and how employees can identify opportunities or leads while providing excellent service.”
Defining a clear goal helps guide the output. In this case, the goal is to educate bank staff about ag lending, with an emphasis on opportunity identification and excellent service. By specifying this, AI knows the end goal and can tailor its content to meet that objective.
If you're new to AI, always make sure to state your goals clearly. The more AI knows about what you want to achieve, the more tailored and helpful the response will be.
“This will be a step-by-step process where you’ll walk me through each step to create content.”
One of the things that makes AI useful for practical, everyday tasks is its ability to break down complex projects into manageable steps. In this prompt, we’re instructing AI to take us through the process step by step, which helps prevent feeling overwhelmed and ensures each part is tackled thoroughly.
For new users, remember that AI can be a great collaborator. Use it to break down tasks, check in along the way, and adjust as you go. You can accomplish large tasks in smaller steps.
“You will not move to the next step until I confirm your content is what I need and aligns with my expectations.”
By making sure that AI pauses and waits for confirmation before proceeding, the process becomes a truly collaborative one. It allows you to review, adjust, and make sure the content fits exactly what you need before moving on to the next part. This is especially helpful if you’re not sure what you want the final product to look like—it gives you the freedom to refine your needs as the process unfolds.
The prompt then breaks down specific tasks, like writing a guide, drafting an email, or creating a FAQ. Each task is clear and focused, making it easier for AI to respond accurately and for you to evaluate the content created. For beginners, this structured approach—breaking content down into discrete pieces—ensures that nothing is missed, and you have control at every step of the way.
This prompt is a great example of how AI can take a complex problem—like creating training materials for an entire organization—and break it down into clear, manageable tasks. It shows how AI can serve as an assistant that works alongside you, step by step, ensuring the final result is exactly what you need. This is a brief example, but one that can create draft in minutes rather than hours. It is a jumping off point to refine with AI or edit personally.