We’ve just used 3 coaching prompts in this Section.

Hopefully you can see the power of coaching prompts and how a well constructed one can help you clarify your thinking and extract valuable information from you.

Lots of people forget you can use ChatGPT for this. As such I want to give a quick how-to on getting ChatGPT to coach you on anything.

Here is a generic coaching prompt template you can adapt:

Act as a [type] coach

Help me work out [your problem statement]

Ask each question one at a time, wait for my response and then move to the next question

Summarise your conclusions and ask if sufficient or whether further changes are needed

Summarise action points.

For example I can plug in “productivity coach” and “help me work out how to stop looking at my phone so much”

ChatGPT walked me through 7 questions to collect the information it needed and then returned this action plan:

You can adapt this basic coaching prompt to any problems you are having.