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Introduction to Generative AI and Prompt Engineering

  • Understanding generative AI and how it distinguishes itself from traditional automation
  • The impact of prompt engineering on the quality of AI outputs
  • An overview of the current ecosystem of text, image, audio, and video tools
  • Identifying where prompt engineering delivers tangible business value

Foundations of AI Models for Text and Image Generation

  • Explaining how large language models and diffusion models function in simple terms
  • Differentiating between training data, fine-tuning, and prompting
  • Examining the strengths and limitations of pre-trained models
  • Understanding how model architecture influences prompt writing strategies

Comparing the Leading AI Assistants

  • Microsoft Copilot: Strengths in Microsoft 365 integration (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams), enterprise data grounding; and limitations in creative range and reasoning depth compared to peers
  • Google Gemini: Strengths in native multimodality, Workspace integration, and real-time search grounding; and weaknesses in consistency, regional availability, and complex instruction-following
  • ChatGPT: Strengths in ecosystem maturity, custom GPTs, image generation via DALL-E, and voice mode; and weaknesses in factual reliability without grounding and stricter limits on premium features
  • Claude: Strengths in long-context handling, nuanced reasoning, longer-form writing, and analytical clarity; and weaknesses in the breadth of its tool ecosystem and image generation capabilities
  • Selecting the appropriate tool based on specific tasks, audiences, or compliance requirements
  • A comparative walkthrough of the same prompt across all four assistants

Principles of Effective Prompt Design

  • Clarity, specificity, and context as the core pillars of effective prompting
  • Structuring instructions, tone, format, and constraints effectively
  • Identifying common beginner errors and how to recognise them
  • The process of iterating from a weak prompt to a high-performing one

Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Few-Shot Prompting

  • Distinguishing between the three approaches and determining when each is most appropriate
  • Interpreting model behaviour and adjusting examples accordingly
  • Teaching models new tasks using a small number of well-chosen samples
  • Practical exercises across ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude

Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques

  • Creating conditional and context-aware prompts for nuanced outputs
  • Applying style transfer, persona prompting, and creative direction
  • Utilising chain-of-thought and step-by-step reasoning prompts
  • Mitigating hallucinations, ambiguity, and bias in AI responses

Few-Shot Fine-Tuning Without Code

  • Defining few-shot fine-tuning and differentiating it from full model training
  • Adapting models to niche tasks using example-driven prompts
  • Deciding when to prompt-engineer versus when fine-tuning offers better value
  • Evaluating output quality and refining iteratively

Hyper-Realistic Text Generation

  • Generating text with controlled tone, voice, and length
  • Producing long-form content, summaries, reports, and structured documents
  • Maintaining coherence across multi-step generation processes
  • Combining prompt patterns to achieve repeatable, brand-aligned results

Applying Prompt Engineering to Business Workflows

  • Automating routine drafting, research, and information triage
  • An examination of customer support and chatbot use cases
  • Designing reusable prompt templates for teams without retraining
  • Implementing quality control, escalation logic, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints

Image Generation and Manipulation

  • A comparison of DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, and Leonardo AI
  • Crafting prompts to control style, composition, lighting, and subject matter
  • Utilising negative prompts, weighting, and iterative refinement
  • Performing image-to-image transformation and editing through prompts

Audio and Speech with AI

  • Generating natural-sounding speech from text prompts
  • Conceptual overview of voice cloning and synthesis
  • Exploring use cases in training content, accessibility, and marketing

Video Content Creation with Generative AI

  • An overview of current text-to-video tools and their realistic capabilities
  • Scripting and storyboarding through sequential prompting
  • Integrating AI-generated text, images, audio, and video into unified assets
  • Editing and refining AI-created video output

Multimodal AI and Integrated Workflows

  • How multimodal models unify reasoning across text, image, audio, and video
  • Building end-to-end content pipelines without coding
  • Real-world case studies from marketing, design, training, and advertising

Ethics, Responsible Use, and Future Trends

  • Addressing bias, copyright, attribution, and content moderation
  • Privacy and data protection considerations when using generative platforms
  • Ensuring disclosure, transparency, and trust with end customers
  • Emerging tools, models, and trends to monitor over the next 12 months

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Target Audience

This course is ideal for marketing, communications, and creative professionals exploring AI-assisted content production. It is also well-suited for business operations and customer-facing teams seeking to automate repetitive interactions using prompt-driven tools. Additionally, it provides a structured, tool-focused entry point for beginners with no prior AI or programming experience.

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