AI Mastery: From Prompting to Professional Practice

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Academy lesson outline

1. What Prompt Engineering Really Is (And Why Most People Get It Wrong) · 13 min
2. How Large Language Models Actually Work (Without the Technical Jargon) · 14 min
3. The Anatomy of a Perfect Prompt · 14 min
4. Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Chain-of-Thought Prompting · 15 min
5. Writing Clear Instructions — The Specificity Principle · 13 min
6. Controlling Tone, Voice, and Style · 13 min
7. The Role of Context — What to Include and What to Leave Out · 13 min
8. Iterative Prompting — How to Refine Your Way to Excellent Output · 14 min
9. Common Prompt Failures — Diagnosing and Fixing the Top 10 Problems · 15 min
10. Building Your Prompt Engineering System — Templates, Libraries, and Workflows · 15 min
11. System Prompts — Setting the Stage Before the Conversation Begins · 14 min
12. Prompt Chaining — Breaking Complex Tasks Into Sequences · 15 min
13. Role-Playing and Persona Prompting — Getting Expert Outputs · 13 min
14. Constrained Creativity — Getting Original Output Without Losing Control · 13 min
15. Meta-Prompting — Using AI to Write Better Prompts · 14 min
16. Prompt Engineering for Research and Analysis Tasks · 15 min
17. Prompt Engineering for Writing Tasks · 14 min
18. Prompt Engineering for Data, Numbers, and Financial Analysis · 15 min
19. Prompting for Code and Technical Tasks · 15 min
20. Prompting Across Different AI Platforms — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Beyond · 13 min
21. Building an AI-Powered Customer Service System · 14 min
22. AI-Powered Sales and Lead Generation Prompts · 14 min
23. Content Marketing and Social Media at Scale · 13 min
24. AI for HR — Recruitment, Performance, and Team Communication · 13 min
25. Prompt Engineering for Strategic Planning and Decision-Making · 15 min
26. Prompt Engineering for Financial Business Tasks · 14 min
27. AI-Assisted Product Development and Innovation · 13 min
28. Using AI for Learning, Training, and Knowledge Management · 13 min
29. Ethical and Responsible Use of AI in Business · 14 min
30. Building Your Professional AI Toolkit — Resources, Communities, and Continuous Learning · 14 min
31. Persuasion Engineering — Prompting for Influence and Action · 14 min
32. Prompting for Negotiation and Difficult Conversations · 14 min
33. Storytelling with AI — Narrative That Connects and Converts · 13 min
34. Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Communication Prompting · 13 min
35. Advanced Editing and Rewriting Prompts · 13 min
36. Email Intelligence — Prompting for Every Email Situation · 13 min
37. Writing for the Ear — Scripts, Speeches, and Spoken Communication · 13 min
38. Summarisation and Distillation — Extracting What Matters · 13 min
39. Prompt Engineering for Academic and Professional Writing · 14 min
40. The Professional Writing Portfolio — Building Your AI-Enhanced Signature Style · 14 min
41. How Large Language Models Actually Work · 12 min
42. Multimodal AI — Images, Audio, and Documents · 12 min
43. Build Lab — Your First AI Agent · 15 min
44. Build Lab — Knowledge Bases with RAG · 15 min
45. Build Lab — Automating Prompt Workflows with No-Code Tools · 15 min
46. Evaluating AI Outputs — The Quality Framework · 12 min
47. Prompt Engineering for Code and Technical Tasks · 12 min
48. Prompt Engineering for Data Analysis and Visualisation · 12 min
49. Selecting and Evaluating AI Tools · 12 min
50. Building and Maintaining Your Prompt Library · 15 min
51. The Industry Prompting Principle · 12 min
52. Prompting for Healthcare and Medical Contexts · 12 min
53. Prompting for Legal Professionals · 12 min
54. Prompting for Finance, Accounting, and Investment · 12 min
55. Prompting for Education, HR, and Training Design · 12 min
56. Prompting for Marketing, Customer Service, and Sales · 12 min
57. Prompting for Operations, Research, and Strategy · 12 min
58. Prompting for Personal Productivity and Writing · 12 min
59. Evaluating Industry-Specific AI Output · 12 min
60. Module 6 Capstone — Your Professional Prompt Library Sprint · 15 min
61. AI Bias — What It Is and Why It Matters for African Professionals · 12 min
62. Data Privacy and Responsible AI Use · 15 min
63. AI Hallucination — Verification as Professional Practice · 12 min
64. AI Safety — Practical Risks for Professionals · 12 min
65. Building Your AI Ethics Framework · 15 min
66. AI Strategy for Individuals and Organisations · 15 min
67. The Frontier of AI — Capabilities Coming in the Next 3 Years · 12 min
68. Communicating AI to Non-Technical Stakeholders · 12 min
69. AI in the Nigerian and African Context · 12 min
70. Your AI Mastery — From Here to the Frontier · 15 min

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