AI’s first response can look polished and still be only a starting point.
The COACH guide gives you five practical habits for getting better results from tools such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, without writing enormous prompts or building an agent.
Use it beside you while you work to:
- brief AI more clearly
- give it the context that actually matters
- set a useful quality bar
- challenge and improve the first response
- save what you learn for next time
Why Keep It Beside Your Desk?
The guide includes practical things you can actually say to AI when a result is “nearly, but not quite”, plus quick checks for assumptions, evidence, quality and reuse.
You do not need advanced AI features. Every step works in an ordinary conversation, subject to your organisation’s AI policy.
Want the Thinking Behind It?
Our research-backed article explains why confident AI output still needs human judgement, what current studies tell us about critical thinking and expertise and how VTT has used these habits in real work.
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Want to Build These Habits Across a Team?
‘How to Coach AI’ is our practical workshop for people who want to move beyond one-shot prompting and get better at directing, reviewing and improving AI-assisted work.
