{"id":113,"date":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/?p=113"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","slug":"prompts-leaders-reverse-prompting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/prompts-leaders-reverse-prompting\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Leaders Write Prompts That Actually Deliver Results?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Good prompts are delegation in text form: context, task, format, quality criteria.<\/li><li>The most common mistake is one-liner thinking \u2013 brief briefings produce arbitrary results.<\/li><li>Leaders have a natural advantage: they can delegate \u2013 prompting is the same competence.<\/li><li>Reverse prompting turns the tables: the AI asks you the right questions first.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sentence \u201cAI only delivers mediocrity here\u201d rarely says anything about the AI \u2013 and a lot about the briefing. My favorite exercise in workshops: the same task, once as a one-liner, once as a proper briefing. The quality difference convinces faster than any slide.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Separates a Good Prompt from a One-Liner?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same thing that separates good delegation from a shout across the hallway: Who am I, what is this about, what exactly do I need, in which format, for which audience, what does a good result look like? Those who give a new employee such a briefing get usable work \u2013 with AI it is exactly the same. That is why I like to say in keynotes: prompting is leadership competence in text format.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Does Reverse Prompting Work?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of writing the perfect briefing yourself, let the AI ask: \u201cAsk me all the questions you need to solve this task excellently.\u201d The result surprises even professionals \u2013 the AI uncovers requirements you had not thought of yourself. For beginners it is the fastest path to top results, for teams a wonderful shared aha moment in the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do You Scale Prompting Across the Organization?<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Build a prompt library: share and maintain the team's ten best briefings centrally.<\/li><li>Lead by example: leaders who show their own prompts lower the barrier more than any guideline.<\/li><li>Practice with real tasks: no training example motivates like one's own annoying routine task.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Planning an event?<\/strong> As a keynote speaker for artificial intelligence, digitalization and Microsoft 365, I bring technology topics to the stage in a way that sticks \u2013 hands-on, entertaining and immediately actionable. <a href=\"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/\">Here you will find an overview of my keynotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)<\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don't prompt techniques become outdated constantly?<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tools change, the principle remains: clear context and clear expectations deliver better results \u2013 that was true for every assistant and is true for every AI generation.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do different departments need different prompt trainings?<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The basics are identical, the examples are not: sales, HR and accounting ignite on completely different use cases. Good workshops therefore work with the participants' real tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What about sensitive data in prompts?<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clear guardrails belong in every prompt training: which data classes may go into which tool? With enterprise solutions and anonymized examples, almost every use case can be mapped cleanly.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompting is delegation: how leaders get top results from AI with proper briefings and reverse prompting \u2013 impulses from workshop practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kuenstliche-intelligenz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thorsten-jekel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}