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Prompt Like a Pro: The Secret Sauce to Getting Better Results with Microsoft Copilot
Because Copilot doesn’t read your mind—but it can follow a great brief.
🧠 Why Your Prompts Might Be Falling Flat
Microsoft Copilot is powerful, but let’s be real—it doesn’t always nail it.
Sometimes it’s helpful. Other times, it feels like it’s guessing.
The difference? The quality of your prompt.
Most people don’t realise that prompting is a skill—a teachable one.
And once you learn the structure behind a great prompt, you unlock way more value from Copilot.
🍳 Prompting Isn’t Magic—It’s a Recipe
Think of a great prompt like a great recipe.
It’s not about luck. It’s about using the right ingredients, in the right way.
We use a simple but powerful structure called the PromptIngredients™Framework, which includes:
- 🎯 Goal – What do you want Copilot to do?
- 📍 Context – Who’s it for? What’s the situation?
- 📂 Source – Where should it pull information from?
- 📝 Expectations – How should it respond (e.g. tone, format)?
It may sound basic—but these four steps can turn a vague prompt like:
“Summarise this.”
…into something much more effective:
“Summarise the last 3 Teams chats with Client X about Phase3. Highlight risks and next steps in bullet points.”
That’s the difference between an okay result and something genuinely useful.
🚀 Why Prompting Skills Matter (Now MoreThan Ever)
Prompting well doesn’t just save time.
It builds confidence.
We’re seeing it in real time: the shift from people asking“What can Copilot do?”
to confidently telling Copilot what to do, how to do it, and why it matters.
That shift changes everything—especially in:
- Meeting summaries
- Client communications
- Strategic planning
- Day-to-day content drafting
🟣 Tip to Try Today
Start with one Copilot task you already do regularly—like replying to emails, writing updates, or summarising notes.
Then try asking Copilot with more structure:
- What do I want? (Goal)
- What’s it for? (Context)
- What should it reference? (Source)
- What should the response look like? (Expectations)
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You’ll be surprised at the difference it makes.
