ChatGPT can support much more than individual writing or brainstorming tasks. When used strategically, it can become a repeatable workflow tool that helps structure complex work, accelerate analysis, and produce polished deliverables more efficiently. In this applied session, participants will move beyond basic features to learn how ChatGPT Plus and Team can support consistent, high-impact work processes.

The session focuses on refining how participants configure settings, structure prompts, and iterate with ChatGPT to produce higher quality results. Through scenario-based demonstrations and guided practice, participants will explore how to break complex work into staged prompts, reusable templates, and structured review steps that reduce manual effort and improve consistency.

 Participants will also learn how to design and use custom GPTs to standardize common tasks such as briefing preparation, meeting planning, policy-aware drafting, and maintaining a consistent tone and format across deliverables. Additional exercises will demonstrate how ChatGPT can help synthesize and analyze source materials to generate grounded summaries, comparisons, and decision-support outputs.

By the end of the session, participants will have practical strategies for integrating ChatGPT into real work processes, designing reusable AI-supported workflows, and applying validation and responsible-use practices to ensure outputs are accurate, appropriate, and ready to share.

University of Maine System employees - please submit this form before registering to pay for this course via Interdepartmental Transfer using ChartFields.

Please note: In preparation for this session, we recommend that participants have access to a paid version of ChatGPT, such as ChatGPT Plus/ChatGPT Team. The paid version of this platform offers more advanced capabilities, better reasoning, and improved performance for the tools and workflows we will be exploring together.