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Run Prompting Basics just for your team, on a date that suits you. Same room, same questions, examples pulled straight from how your business works.
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Beginner · In-person training
Prompting Basics
Hands-on from minute one. Learn the simple structures that turn vague requests into reliable, repeatable results, then practise on your own emails, documents and everyday asks until the answers sound like you wrote them.
Overview
Stop fighting the blank box. Start getting answers you can use.
Most people try AI once, type a one-line request, get a generic answer, and quietly decide it isn’t for them. The problem was never the tool, it was the ask. Prompting is a learnable skill, and it’s mostly common sense once someone shows you the shape of a good request.
In ninety minutes we work through the handful of patterns that do the heavy lifting: giving context, showing an example, setting the format, and refining an answer instead of starting over. You’ll practise on your own real work, so you leave with prompts you can reuse on Monday, not theory you’ll forget by Friday.
Who it’s for: Anyone who’s tried AI and felt let down by the results, or who wants reliable output without becoming a tech expert. Bring a laptop and a couple of real tasks.
Walk out able to…
Practical patterns you’ll use the same week. Here’s what you’ll be able to do by the end.
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Write a prompt that works first time
Use a simple, repeatable structure that turns a vague idea into a clear, useful answer.
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Give the right context
Learn what to include (and what to leave out) so the AI understands your business and your goal.
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Get answers in your voice
Show it how you sound, so replies and documents read like you wrote them, not like a robot.
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Refine instead of restart
Steer a so-so answer to a great one with a few follow-up moves, rather than starting over.
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Build prompts you reuse
Turn your best prompts into simple templates your whole team can lean on.
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Know when to stop
Spot a good-enough answer, and when to take over, so you save time instead of fiddling.
AI Expert
Your instructor
Tod Ward
Tod has spent 15+ years making technology make sense for small businesses, long before any of it was branded “AI”. He’s the one in the room translating the hype into plain English and practical next steps.
He runs every session personally, with real examples from businesses like yours, trades, clinics, firms and shops right here in the Kawarthas. Expect straight talk, a few laughs, and zero condescension.
- 15+ years translating tech for local business
- Leads every session personally
- Hundreds of owners trained, one-to-one and in teams
- Based in the Kawarthas, works with businesses like yours
Bring it to your team, join an open session, or book us to speak.
Join the next open date
Not a whole team? We run an open Prompting Basics session in the Kawarthas as soon as 18 local owners put their hand up.
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Have us speak at your event
Hosting an event, conference or team day? Enquire about getting one of our AI experts to speak. We turn what AI really means for local business into a plain-English talk, pitched to your audience.
- Keynotes, workshops or panels
- Any audience, any size
- Plain English, zero jargon
Ready when you are
Get answers worth using, every time.
Book Prompting Basics as a private hands-on session for your team, or register your interest in the next open date. Bring your real work and leave with prompts that stick.
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