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  • C1
  • Orchestrate
  • Orchestrate
  • 5 min

Break it into steps

Situation

The situation

Ask for the plan before having anything written.

You run a beauty salon in Montpellier. You are launching a gift card for the holidays: you need an email to customers, a social media post and an FAQ for the website.

Idea 1 of 3

Orchestrating means organising

To orchestrate is to break a big job into steps, then give each step to the right model or tool, in the right order. Like a site manager sharing out the work.

Idea 2 of 3

The plan first

Before writing, ask for a plan of 4 to 6 steps, with nothing else. You fix it in a minute, instead of fixing three long texts.

Idea 3 of 3

One step, one request

Then do each step in a separate request. Each answer is more careful, and you approve as you go.

Example

Before and after

Avoid

Do everything for my gift card launch.

Better

I am launching a holiday gift card at my salon. First suggest a 5-step plan to prepare the email, the post and the FAQ. Do not write anything yet.

Why? You approve the roadmap before any writing: fewer corrections, more control.

Question 1 of 2

Why ask for the plan before the texts?

Why ask for the plan before the texts?
See the answer

To fix the order and content before writing Fixing a plan takes a minute. Fixing three finished texts takes much longer.

Question 2 of 2

What does “orchestrate” mean?

What does “orchestrate” mean?
See the answer

Break a job into steps and give each one to the right model or tool Orchestrating is organising the work: the steps, their order and who does what.

Exercise

Your turn

Write the request that first gets a plan of 4 to 6 steps, without writing the texts.

Ctrl + Enter to check your request.

Checklist

  • Ask for a plan in steps, to do
  • Give the number of steps, 4 to 6, to do
  • Say: no writing yet, to do
  • Name the deliverables: email, post, FAQ, to do

End of the lesson

Lesson complete

Key point

Big job: the plan first, then one request per step.