What you'll learn

Many professionals struggle to get consistent, high-quality results from AI assistants because they don't know how to communicate their needs effectively. In this course, Prompting Basics for Claude, you'll learn practical techniques to craft prompts that produce reliable, useful outputs. First, you'll explore how to structure prompts using clarity, context, and the Role-Task-Context-Format framework. Next, you'll discover techniques like iterative refinement and chain-of-thought prompting to improve your results. Finally, you'll learn strategies including few-shot prompting and how to handle Claude's limitations. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of effective prompting needed to use Claude AI confidently for your business analysis work.