ChatGPT Enterprise: Practical prompt engineering for everyday work

This guide is for Enterprise users who want more reliable results from ChatGPT without needing advanced technical expertise. It is a practical, example-driven guide that is easy to apply to your everyday work, whether that’s summarizing documents, drafting emails, translating content, analyzing simple scenarios, or brainstorming narratives.

Note, there is no single perfect prompt template. This guide is designed to help you make your task clear enough for ChatGPT to produce reliable, useful results.

<details> <summary><strong>Start using this right away</strong> — install the accompanying Skill and apply these best practices immediately</summary>

Don't have time to read the full guide right now? You can start applying these prompting best practices immediately by installing the accompanying Skill in ChatGPT.

Download the Skill here: Prompting Best Practices Skill

Skills are small reusable add-ons that teach ChatGPT how to perform a specific task or follow a repeatable workflow. This Skill is designed to help apply the guidance in this guide more consistently, so you can get better results with less setup each time.

To install it:

1. Download the Skill from the link above
2. Log into ChatGPT
3. Click your profile icon in ChatGPT
4. Select Skills in the pop-up menu
5. Click New Skill
6. Select Upload from your computer
7. Upload the downloaded file
8. Start a new chat and use it in your everyday work

Then, when you have time, come back to this guide for the deeper explanations, examples, and reasoning behind the approach.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Mindset
3. Scope the problem
4. Write the prompt clearly
5. [Use ChatGPT to help you prompt (