5 ChatGPT Prompts To Improve Employee Training Programs

Recently, I watched a 1950s short film about door-to-door salespeople. We all know how that vocation ultimately faded away, replaced by systems that made physically visiting homes obsolete: retail chains, mail-order catalogs, mass advertising, and eventually e-commerce.

It’s funny how much time we spend thinking about the future and inevitable disruptions while rarely reflecting on past ways of working and how they evolved. Certain jobs disappeared, but better systems emerged for customers, along with entirely new kinds of work. The essential link was training people for those evolving roles. The AI era is no different.

Reports forecast that companies will invest $2 trillion in AI initiatives by 2026. Much of that spending may fail to generate expected returns, according to Gartner research. Part of the problem is how organizations think about training itself: new research suggests many companies overlook its broader impact, finding that when employees are better trained, productivity rises and managers spend less time troubleshooting, freeing them to focus on higher-level work.

For leaders, the question is: How do we bridge the gap between tomorrow’s opportunities and today’s training demands? ChatGPT can be a powerful resource for making training programs more effective. Here are five prompts to get started.

1. Build An Inventory Of Your Current Programs

Each company has its own approach to training. While some organizations follow more traditional, structured online and in-person training modules, I appreciate those who think outside the box. At one e-commerce company, for example, employees taught each other various skills, and not necessarily related to their jobs. Courses covered everything from coding to tango to mixology. While the ROI might not be obvious, I think the long-term impact is invaluable: cultivating a learning culture (that actually sounds fun).

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