As a Storyboard designer, your prompt is the blueprint for the AI's analysis. By applying strict structural constraints to your questions, you guarantee the tiles insight is predictable, scannable, and trusted by your target audience (from analysts to executives).
The Core Strategy: Prioritize Structure and Persona
The most effective prompts integrate two essential elements that maximize both the value of the insight and its usability in your dashboard tiles:
| Mechanism | Command Example | Benefit |
| Persona (Quality Driver) | Act as a Senior People Analytics Consultant... | Frames the output as a strategic recommendation, ensuring the AI focuses on business value, not just a data description. |
| Strict Structure (Usability & Speed Driver) | Your response must follow this strict, three-part format exactly: | Guarantees consistency and speed. The rigid format eliminates AI 'creativity,' making the output predictable and ready for use in a constrained tile space. |
Tailoring Your Prompt: The Persona & The Audience
The easiest and most impactful way to tune the insight is by modifying the AI's persona to match the perspective of your intended audience (the viewer of the Storyboard).
| Audience | Recommended Persona to Use | Focus & Strategic Goal |
| Executive/C-Suite | Act as a Senior People Analytics Consultant. | Focus on financial risk, strategic impact, and organizational change. |
| HR Business Partner (HRBP) | Act as a key HR Business Partner for the [Department Name]. | Focus on operational root causes, talent pipeline issues, and retention tactics. |
| Recruiter/TA Lead | Act as a Talent Acquisition Leader. | Focus on funnel efficiency, time-to-fill, candidate experience, and sourcing cost. |
The Performance Trade-Off: Words to Use and Avoid
The verbs and constraints you use dictate the AI's processing time. Choose your commands based on whether you need strategic depth (slow) or raw speed (fast).
High-Value Commands (Slower Execution)
These commands force the AI to execute complex, time-consuming analytical steps. Use them when quality and strategic depth are non-negotiable (e.g., when targeting executives or board members).
| Command | What It Does (The Hidden Cost) | Example Use Case |
| Identify the single most impactful strategic trend... | The AI must search for and filter findings based on the largest financial/organizational implication, which is a slow, subjective, and high-cost reasoning task. | Use this for: Executive Storyboards where every word must be justified by high-level risk. |
| Determine the root cause / Justify this finding... | Requires the AI to perform causal reasoning and verification, which significantly increases processing time. | Use this for: HRBP Storyboards where the actionable step depends on an accurate diagnosis of the problem's cause. |
High-Efficiency Commands (Fastest Execution)
These commands are fast because they bypass strategic analysis and focus on direct data handling. Use them when speed is the priority and the strategic context is less critical (e.g., internal analyst dashboards).
| Command | What It Does (The Performance Gain) | Example Use Case |
| Extract the primary finding | Fast command. It avoids strategic reasoning overhead and immediately pulls the most prominent, data-supported fact for quick formatting. | Use this for: Analyst/Internal Dashboards where speed matters most, and the viewer can apply the strategic context themselves. |
| Provide one key observation and recommendation. | Simple filtering to find the most prominent trend, without the "strategic risk" assessment overhead. | Use this for: Simple Tiles or Overview Dashboards where a high-level summary is sufficient. |
Commands to Avoid
These commands guarantee the slowest performance and the lowest quality due to their lack of structure:
- Vague Analysis: What are the top anomalies, trends, or correlations...?
- Open-Ended: Analyze this data and give me all the key insights.
- Unconstrained: Write a paragraph about this chart.
These force the AI into an unstructured, complex analytical search with no clear end, resulting in the longest load times. Always use a strict output format.
Examples: High-Quality vs. High-Performance
High-Quality / Strategic Insight (Slower Performance): This structure is ideal for executive dashboards where strategic depth is non-negotiable. It forces the AI into a slow, high-value analysis step. Example:
Act as a Senior People Analytics Consultant. Review the provided data. Identify the single most impactful strategic trend or anomaly that carries the highest financial or organizational risk for the business. Your response must follow this strict, three-part format exactly: Bolded Headline (max 10 words), Core Insight & Data Proof (Maximum 2 Sentences, focusing on one percentage and two rounded high-level numbers), and Actionable Next Step (One Sentence).
High-Performance / Pure Extraction (Fastest Performance): This structure is ideal when speed is paramount, such as in high-traffic or self-service analyst dashboards. It removes the reasoning overhead. Example:
Extract the primary finding from this data. Present the finding using this strict, three-part format exactly: Bolded Headline (max 10 words), Core Insight & Data Proof (Maximum 2 Sentences, focusing on one percentage and two rounded high-level numbers), and Actionable Next Step (One Sentence).
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