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AI Power User: Critical Thinking for Smarter AI Use Crash Course
- Level: Intermediate
- Length: 85 minutes
- Krista Neher
Getting useful AI results starts with better thinking, not just better prompts. This course shows you how to think with AI using proven frameworks, practical coaching techniques, and structured prompting methods that consistently produce more accurate, relevant, and usable outputs. You’ll learn how to guide AI strategically, evaluate responses critically, and refine results without starting over. By the end of this course, you’ll have a repeatable process to use AI as a true thinking partner for more complex business, marketing, and professional tasks.
This course is ideal for business professionals, marketers, leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants, and anyone who uses generative AI to create higher-quality work and make better decisions.
- Master proven prompting frameworks that consistently improve the quality, accuracy, and usefulness of AI outputs.
- Learn how to think strategically with AI instead of relying on AI to do your thinking.
- Use structured prompting techniques to define roles, goals, context, and constraints that produce focused results.
- Evaluate AI reasoning, evidence, tradeoffs, and depth to reduce errors and improve decision-making.
- Coach AI through feedback, iteration, and task breakdowns to handle more complex projects successfully.
- Spot weak prompts before you use them and apply proven methods to consistently generate production-ready outputs.
What’s Included In The Course
- Downloadable Resources
- Completion Certificate
- Live Demonstrations
- Activities to Implement
- Real-world Examples
Resources
-> B.R.I.E.F. Prompting Playbook
-> Prompt Planning THINK Template
-> AI SEO Quickstart Guide
Thinking with AI is essential to getting useful results rather than generic answers. Strong prompting requires clear thinking, structure, and evaluation, not guesswork. To get the most out of AI you have to think with AI, not rely on it to think for you.
This course shows you exactly how to think with AI using proven frameworks, practical examples, and coaching techniques so you can consistently produce accurate, usable outputs.
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AI Power User: Critical Thinking for Smarter AI Use Crash Course Outline
- How the role of the prompter shapes the quality and usefulness of AI outputs.
- How to shift from passive prompting to active thinking with AI.
- Why critical thinking is vital in prompting to get high-quality results.
- How to structure prompts using the B.R.I.E.F. framework.
- How structure improves the quality and consistency of AI outputs.
- How to reduce vague outputs by setting context and constraints upfront.
- How to use a thinking-first framework to clarify your AI requests.
- How to avoid asking AI for answers before defining the problem.
- How to apply critical thinking and the THINK framework to prompts.
- How to use thinking in creating prompts and analyzing results.
- Why specificity improves relevance.
- How to make prompts concrete without overloading them.
- How precision increases predictability.
- How to use constraints to get production-ready outputs.
- How to prompt AI to explain the rationale behind outputs.
- How validation reduces hallucinations.
- How to prompt AI to show its reasoning and sources.
- How to assess AI’s reasoning process.
- How to improve outputs by correcting the process, not the result.
- How changing perspective changes outputs.
- How to unlock new insights by shifting viewpoints.
- How breaking tasks into steps improves AI performance.
- Why smaller prompts lead to clearer results.
- How clarification improves accuracy and alignment.
- How asking questions reduces rework.
- How to compare options using AI.
- How to make informed decisions when no option is perfect.
- How to assess whether an AI response is surface-level.
- How to prompt for deeper
- How to review AI outputs critically.
- How to refine results without starting over.
- How to identify prompts that will fail before running them.
- How to diagnose why prompts break down.
- The most common prompting mistakes.
- How to avoid these mistakes.
- How iterative coaching improves AI performance.
- How feedback leads to better outcomes.
- How to consistently get usable, high-quality outputs.
Course Description
AI Power User: Critical Thinking for Smarter AI Use Crash Course is an intermediate course that teaches you how to think with AI to consistently produce higher-quality results. Strong AI prompting is built on critical thinking, not guesswork. You’ll learn proven frameworks and practical techniques that help you create better prompts, evaluate AI outputs, and work with AI as a strategic partner instead of simply asking for answers.
You’ll begin by understanding why the person using AI has the biggest impact on output quality. Discover how to shift from passive prompting to active thinking with AI using the proven B.R.I.E.F. Prompting Framework and T.H.I.N.K. Thinking Framework. Learn how to define context, roles, goals, constraints, and problems before writing prompts so AI delivers more accurate, focused, and relevant responses. You’ll also see practical examples that demonstrate how structured thinking dramatically improves prompt quality.
Next, you’ll learn advanced prompting strategies that improve consistency and reliability. Discover how greater specificity, clear constraints, and production-ready prompts lead to better outputs. Learn how to validate AI responses, request supporting evidence, examine reasoning, evaluate tradeoffs, and identify surface-level thinking. You’ll also explore perspective shifts, task decomposition, clarification questions, and other techniques that enable AI to solve more sophisticated business and marketing challenges.
Finally, you’ll learn how to critically review and improve AI outputs instead of accepting the first response. Discover how to identify weak prompts before using them, avoid common prompting mistakes, and coach AI through iterative feedback to continually improve results. By the end of this course, you’ll have a practical system for creating higher-quality AI outputs that are more accurate, actionable, and ready to use across writing, research, planning, strategy, analysis, and decision-making.
This interactive course includes the B.R.I.E.F. Prompting Playbook, Prompt Planning THINK Template, and AI SEO Quickstart Guide to help you implement the frameworks and techniques covered throughout the course. It also includes live demonstrations, interactive activities, real-world examples, and practical exercises so you can immediately apply what you learn.
Learning Objectives
- Apply advanced prompting strategies to improve results.
- Set clear roles, goals, and constraints so AI delivers useful, focused outputs.
- Think strategically with AI to increase the complexity of tasks AI can handle for you.
- Use proven, structured prompting frameworks to get more specific, accurate results.
- Evaluate AI outputs by checking reasoning, evidence, and tradeoffs.
- Coach AI with feedback and task breakdowns to produce work you can actually use.
- Get better results by viewing AI as a partner.
Resources
- B.R.I.E.F. Prompting Playbook
- Prompt Planning THINK Template
- AI SEO Quickstart Guide
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Krista Neher is a six-time bestselling author, international speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, global thought-leader, and an expert in social media, digital marketing, and personal branding, with over 20 years of experience.
She is the CEO of Boot Camp Digital and a contributor on Forbes and Newsweek. She wrote the first textbook on social media and created the first accredited digital marketing certification in the world.

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