60 Powerful AI Prompts For Executive Assistants To Boost Productivity

EAs + AI = a perfect partnership.

The best assistants aren’t worried about losing their jobs to AI tech; they’re focused on putting it to work for them and using it to their advantage.

Believe it or not, you already have the key skill to maximizing AI tech – like ChatGPT or Claude — communication.

Executive assistant efficiency is no longer just about multitasking and time management. In 2024, it’s about leveraging AI organizational tools to optimize your workflow and achieve outstanding results. Tools like ChatGPT can automate repetitive tasks and organize information more effectively.

Being able to anticipate complex tasks and communicate key information is a crucial skill for the new AI-powered executive assistant. By incorporating AI into your daily routine, you can significantly enhance your productivity and become an indispensable asset to your organization

AI productivity tools have become indispensable for executive assistants aiming to maximize their efficiency. These tools can help with a wide range of tasks, from scheduling and email management to data analysis and report generation. By mastering the art of crafting effective prompts, assistants can harness the full potential of these tools to streamline their workflow and deliver exceptional results.

It all begins with the right prompts.

In this article, you’ll learn how AI prompts work — plus get 60 example prompts to use right away.

Feel free to jump to a specific prompt category or read through in sequence to master the art of prompting for executive assistants.

• Automated Responses
• Increase Your Productivity
• Topical Research
• Content Creation For Social, Articles, Professionals Docs, & Graphics
• Summary: How To Make Your AI Prompt Results More Meaningful

First up, what is a prompt anyways?

What Is An AI Prompt And How Do They Work?

The good news is that if you haven’t spent much time with AI or prompts yet, you’re not alone.

AI can be an incredibly helpful tool to add to your toolbox — it can increase everyday efficiency, creativity, and productivity — and it’s getting better and better at it.

AI prompts are your way of telling your AI of choice what to do. It’s like having a conversation with a really smart friend, but one who needs extremely clear instructions. You can ask simple questions or give detailed directions – it’s up to you.

Now, the real magic happens when you add context. Remember, AI isn’t a real person; it can’t read between the lines or pick up on those little nonverbal cues we use. So if you want it to nail that email in your executive’s preferred style, you’ve got to spell it out.

Specificity is key. Without it, you might end up with output that needs more tweaking than if you’d just done it yourself. So take a moment to really think about what you want. Start with introductory work to get AI down the right path. The biggest challenge for users new to AI is putting words to their thoughts instead of relying on assumptions.

When crafting your prompt, consider things like:

• The style you’re going for
• Any limitations or restrictions
• The voice and tone you want to deliver
• How you want the information organized
• The complexity level of the language

Important note: AI is only as accurate as your prompts. Think of it like a high-tech GPS. You wouldn’t expect your car to magically know where you want to go, right? Same deal here. A clear prompt is your ticket to getting exactly what you need.

Consider these two prompt examples:

“Find a good time for a staff meeting.”

vs.

“Our team prefers morning meetings early in the week. We like to keep the meeting to under 30 minutes and leave a buffer time of at least 20 minutes before and after the meeting. Find an ideal time and place for a meeting for the entire team within the next eight business days that won’t conflict with lunch hour.”

Without context and specificity, you’ll waste a lot of time redoing prompts until you get the right output.

With this in mind, let’s dive into some powerful prompts to turn you into an AI-powered executive assistant!

10 AI Prompts For Automated Responses

AI can generate the automated responses you use every day without you having to come up with the language yourself… over and over…

Out-Of-Office Or Voicemail Responses

Examples:

1. Give me a professional out-of-office email that lets people know I’ll be at a leadership conference. Tell them I will respond to them when I get back.
2. Provide me a funny out-of-office response to let people know I’m on vacation in the Bahamas and am happily ignoring emails until I get back. Provide a subject line and email body.
3. Create a voicemail script that is professional but humorous for [insert your industry]

Customer Support Responses

Though AI and chatbot systems have been in use for customer service for a while, AI can also generate better one-off automated responses than “we received your request and we’ll get back to you.”

It can also help you build a more useful FAQ page, as well as determine where customer feedback is trending.

Examples:

1. Pretend you’re a customer who is frustrated about [product]. What kind of questions would you want answered if you went to a website for help?
2. Act as a customer service professional. The company has just launched [new product] and wants to send a survey to people to find out what they think of it and how they could improve it. Create a survey that would accomplish this with only six questions.
3. Write a calming response to a customer who wants help with [topic].
4. Read through customer feedback provided and find any patterns. Provide insight on customer concerns, emotions, or potential problems. [customer feedback copy].
5. Provide a plan of feedback for fixing the problems customers have in the following feedback [customer feedback copy].
6. You are an empathetic customer service representative. Reply to a one star review that a customer left about [product].
7. Create a script for a customer service agent. It is in response to customers who are having a problem with [known common problem]. The script should be focused on understanding the customer and give the agent options to provide satisfaction to the customer.

9 Prompts To Increase Your Productivity

The more moving pieces you have to manage, the faster time gets away from you. Time management AI tools and prompts can help break goals down into manageable pieces and help you and your executive be more productive. Some intelligent systems can even analyze your work patterns, identify time-wasters, and suggest optimal schedules for task completion. By leveraging workflow optimization AI, executive assistants can ensure that every minute of their day is used efficiently, leading to increased productivity and reduced stress.

Examples:

1. Recommend communication tools the entire team can use to stay up to date. Some of us have Apple devices while others use a PC.
2. Using SMART as a guide, break the following goals down into specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals: [paste goal(s)]
3. Set a timer that goes off every 30 minutes.
4. How can I improve my time management skills?
5. I am a C-suite executive assistant at a Fortune 500 company in New York City. What can I do to be more organized at work this week?
6. What can I do to be more organized at work?
7. Today I have to accomplish [list of items]. Suggest an ideal plan for the day with the most complicated work in the morning, including a one-hour lunch break and finishing by 4:30 pm.
8. My goal for this week is [insert goal]. Break it down into smaller tasks and provide a timeline for getting them done.
9. What are some goals that my team could set each week if we wanted to accomplish [goal] by the end of the year?

6 AI Prompts For Topical Research

You get asked to provide research and quickly turn around data for meetings, reports, or on-the-spot questions. What used to take a long time can be condensed with the right AI prompts.

Examples:

1. Summarize the following article and pull out three key points: [paste article]
2. Summarize this article in 20 words or less: [paste article]
3. What is the latest information on [topic] that would affect how we market [product]
4. What are the newest innovations in the [industry] industry
5. Compare [topic] and [topic] and give me three ways they are similar
6. I need to present information on [topic] for potential clients. Please guide me on what I should include.

Important Note: ChatGPT can’t see anything that’s happened after April 2023. So be advised if you’re researching a specific event in the last couple of years. Thankfully, they haven’t unleashed AI fully into the world, so we shouldn’t have to deal with The Terminator any time soon.

9 AI Prompts For Content Creation

AI can help you create content for social media, marketing, and even blog posts. While it can write all the words for you, we recommend reworking its output with a human touch.

Examples

• Draft a LinkedIn post announcing our company’s quarterly earnings report, highlighting key financial metrics and future outlook.
• Create a Twitter thread summarizing the main points from our CEO’s recent keynote speech at an industry conference.
• Develop an Instagram carousel post showcasing our company’s commitment to sustainability, featuring our recent initiatives.
• Write a Facebook post introducing our new Chief Technology Officer, emphasizing their expertise and vision for the company.
• Craft a series of 3 LinkedIn articles on thought leadership topics relevant to our industry, focusing on emerging trends.
• Generate ideas for a YouTube video series highlighting employee stories and our company culture.
• Create a corporate blog post on “The Future of [Our Industry] in the Next Decade” for sharing across multiple social platforms.
• Develop an X or Threads campaign to promote our upcoming virtual product launch event, including teaser tweets and a branded hashtag.
• Write copy for a Pinterest board showcasing our company’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives and their impact.

9 AI Prompts For Blog Posts

Some AI users prefer to tell the AI to “act as” a certain kind of entity in order to get a specific kind of return (act as a marketer, act as a storyteller, etc.) That hack can be used with any prompt, not just content creation.

Examples:

1. Generate five clever ideas about time management in headline format. Touch on pain points that people have about wasting time. The target audience is managers.
2. Write a Facebook ad about shoes for people who have low arches and are looking for comfortable dress shoes.
3. How can I improve my writing skills in the next three months?
4. Make the following article more creative: [article] The article should have more humor but be suitable for a fifth grade level of reading.
5. Write a blog post about recruiting new employees. The target audience is human resource departments. Look at [website URL] for inspiration on style. Use no more than 1200 words. Include these keywords in the post [list of words] and these words [list of words] in the headings. Have no more than three H2 subheadings.
6. Act as a storyteller and create a 600 word article about [topic] using the [keyword] in the body of the article. Make the article humorous with a surprise ending.
7. Write a marketing statement for [name of company] which is [description of company]. (You could use a similar prompt for a mission statement, etc.)
8. What are the top five trends in the [industry] industry?
9. Write five clever tweets on [topic] that will get them to reply.

You can even paste your top-performing posts to mimic or match in style, as well as flesh out a more specific target audience or even keywords and SEO considerations.

Important Note: Since human creativity is important, social media and some publishing sites have AI disclaimers. AI also has a habit of plagiarism. That’s why it’s important to revise, add your own angles, spice it up with stories, and use other context. Just to be safe, you can use tools like this plagiarism checker.

6 AI Prompts For SEO

SEO is an ever-changing combo of art and science. But the right prompts and keyword combinations simplify the process.

Examples:

1. Find 15 keywords associated with [topic].
2. Generate five questions people have about [topic].
3. Create a list of ten keywords based on the following paragraph. Rank them in descending order. [general content, event, or product description].
4. Create five blog post titles based on this list of keywords: [list].
5. Create five blog post titles using keyword [keyword] that targets [specific audience].
6. What are the top five searches in Google for the past month on [topic].

6 AI Prompts To Generate Professional Documents Or Materials

AI can help create resumes, job descriptions, and even hiring questions to use in an interview.

Examples:

1. Acting as an interviewer only, asking one question at a time, interview me for a job with the following description [description here].
2. Write a 100 word job description that summarizes the following list of requirements and expectations: [list of job requirements].
3. Create a job description for [title of job] that makes it sound fun and would attract applicants in [location] but don’t use the words [list of banned words]: [current job description].
4. Generate a list of 25 questions to ask a potential employee for a job with the following description [description here]. Make sure the questions use inclusive language.
5. Create an outline that provides three key leadership qualities for [position] and the steps necessary to achieve them. Provide a basic plan that would be necessary to create a training program with those leadership principles in mind. This training will last five hours.
6. Write a letter of acceptance for a job offer we extended for [position] at [company name]
7. What kinds of information should I have ready when I meet with our head of marketing this week? I want to impress her.

4 AI Prompts To Create Graphics And Images

Over the last year this has become a very strong area of AI output for professional use. In fact, the industry has grown by 10 million dollars since 2023!

You can create blog post images, social media graphics, and graphic design materials using AI like DALL•E•2 or OpenJourney. Just prepare yourself for some occasional surrealism.

The key is to be very specific about what you want, the setting, the style—even the emotional response you want from viewers.

Examples:

1. Create a professional infographic illustrating our company’s global supply chain. Use our brand colors of navy blue, silver, and white. Include icons representing manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and retail locations. The style should be clean, modern, and data-driven, suitable for an annual report or investor presentation.”
2. Design a sleek banner image for our corporate LinkedIn page. The image should showcase diverse professionals in a modern office setting, collaborating on a project. Use subtle hints of our brand colors without being overpowering. The overall feel should be one of innovation, teamwork, and forward-thinking leadership.
3. Generate a series of icons representing our company’s core values: Integrity, Innovation, Sustainability, and Customer Focus. Each icon should be simple enough to work at small sizes but distinctive enough to stand out. Use a flat design style with our primary brand color palette. These will be used across various corporate communications.
4. Create a visually appealing chart showing our company’s five-year growth trajectory. Use a combination of bar graphs and line graphs to illustrate revenue, market share, and sustainability metrics. The design should be clean and professional, with a focus on clarity and data visualization best practices. Include space for a brief text explanation.
5. Design a cover image for our corporate sustainability report. The image should symbolize our commitment to environmental responsibility and social governance. Incorporate elements like renewable energy sources, diverse team members, and eco-friendly technology. Use a color palette that balances our brand colors with natural greens and blues. The style should be realistic yet aspirational
6. Create a professional logo for a leadership conference, using blue colors, evoking high energy and happiness.

The last bullet would give you something like this:

It’s not ready for your CEO’s keynote—but it’s a start.

Important note: There have been some ongoing issues from artists who say that DALL•E is using their original works to generate its images. We recommend proceeding with caution and doing your own due diligence before utilizing.

Real Examples Of How Executive Assistants Use ChatGPT

By utilizing AI tools like ChatGPT, Boldly’s remote executive assistants are able to bring more efficiency, creativity, and productivity into their daily tasks.

Essentially, letting technology handle what it does best frees up our team to focus on tasks that truly require a human touch.

It’s worth mentioning that when Boldly’s EAs use ChatGPT, they ensure that any potentially identifiable information is kept confidential. Additionally, they collaborate closely with their clients to ensure transparency and client control over how ChatGPT is used.

Read more: How Boldly Executive Assistants Use ChatGPT In Their Work [Examples + Ideas]

Summary: How To Make Your AI Prompt Results More Meaningful

To make the most of AI, customize your prompts along the way. Learn and improve as you go. You might even consider building a small library of your own that fits your job.

The most powerful results will be infused with your knowledge and ability to adapt—even as AI adapts to you.

It takes knowledge to know enough to ask the right questions; your artificial intelligence results reflect your human intelligence.

Your prompts reflect your complete and full-faceted understanding of what you want as an outcome. And, depending on the AI system, there may be word limits to your prompt; you’ll have to learn to think concisely as you craft the perfect prompt.

Productivity-enhancing AI is becoming a crucial skill for executive assistants. These tools not only help you work faster and smarter but also enable you to take on more strategic roles within your organization. By continuously learning and adapting to new AI technologies, you can stay ahead of the curve and remain indispensable in an increasingly automated world.

Knowing the right prompts to present to AI—through practice and tweaking your input—is going to become the must-have skill of the very near future.

What’s Next For You?

Last but not least, if you want to join a team of 100+ of the best remote executive assistants in the business, see our open positions, get an inside view, and learn about our benefits here.

Happy prompting!