More than 25 participants joined Energy Workforce this week for the GenAI Literacy and Prompt Engineering Course, a full-day program designed to strengthen organizational understanding, acumen, and hands-on capability in generative AI. The session was hosted at Patterson-UTI and sponsored by EWTC Strategic Partners Chevron and SLB.
Rather than treating AI as an individual productivity tool, the course centered on what companies need to put in place to capture value at scale: a common language for prompt design, shared standards for how teams work with AI, and practical guardrails that support both innovation and risk management.
Facilitated by Micah Garrison, VP – Supply Chain Management, Patterson-UTI, the session walked through a simple, repeatable framework for building prompts that reflect business context and organizational priorities. Garrison emphasized that when teams consistently provide the right context, examples and action verbs, AI becomes far more useful for enterprise tasks such as playbook development, project execution and cross-functional communication.
The afternoon’s interactive exercises focused on company-level use cases. Teams worked on prompts for structuring project plans, building components of sales strategies, summarizing technical information for non-technical stakeholders and performing basic data interpretation to support decision-making. By testing iterations side by side, participants saw how a shared prompt structure can standardize outputs across functions and improve the reliability of AI-generated work.
Participants noted that the biggest benefit was translating “AI curiosity” into practical standards they can take back to their organizations. As one attendee shared, “The framework gives us a way to roll out AI expectations across our team so we’re not reinventing the wheel in every department.” Another added, “This helped me see AI not just as a personal assistant, but as something we can plug into our core processes.”
For organizations, GenAI literacy is becoming a foundational capability. Programs like this help companies move beyond experimentation and build disciplined, scalable approaches that support their workforce, customers and long-term competitiveness.
For more information about upcoming leadership and workforce development programs, please contact Peggy Helfert, VP Programs & Events.
Peggy Helfert, Vice President, Programs & Events, writes about the Energy Workforce’s sector-specific best practices and leadership. Click here to subscribe to the Energy Workforce newsletter, which highlights sector-specific issues, best practices, activities and more.
