Ensure You Have the Capabilities to Win with GenAI
As GenAI expands into real workflows, the instructions that guide its behavior become a critical control point. This workshop helps leaders understand common risks that can undermine those instructions, the best-practice guardrails that reduce exposure, and how to translate them into practical oversight and next steps across priority initiatives.
Leave with a clear understanding of system-prompt risk best practices—and a prioritized action plan to strengthen protections across GenAI initiatives.
Even well-governed GenAI programs can be compromised when the “guidance layer” is treated as informal or inconsistent.
- Boundary overrides: Seemingly normal inputs can pressure GenAI experiences to ignore intended rules and behave unpredictably.
- Inconsistent protection patterns: Teams apply different approaches across use cases and vendors, creating uneven coverage and approval friction.
- Limited assurance: Leaders often lack a clear way to validate that guardrails are working—and to prove it consistently over time.
When these risks aren’t addressed, GenAI becomes harder to trust, harder to scale, and harder to defend.
We align leaders on proven best practices and actionable next steps for reducing system-prompt risk while keeping GenAI usable and scalable.
- Risk pattern clarity: Build a shared understanding of how system-prompt risks typically emerge in real business scenarios.
- Protected guidance standards: Define practical standards for “protected” guidance that keeps GenAI aligned to business intent.
- Use-case-ready templates: Establish repeatable prompt template patterns that teams can apply consistently across common scenarios.
- Access and governance alignment: Clarify who can change critical guidance, how changes are approved, and how exceptions are handled.
- Validation and assurance plan: Agree on a practical approach to testing, review, and ongoing monitoring to maintain confidence.
- Identify vulnerabilities in prompt construction and prompt injection
- Review common attack patterns targeting system prompts
- Design protected prompt templates for different use cases
- Introduce role-based prompt control and prompt sanitization
- Validate system prompt behavior with adversarial and red teaming tests
Develop a shared understanding of system-prompt risks and the most important best practices to address them
Define a prioritized set of next steps to strengthen protections across high-value GenAI initiatives
Create a practical checklist for assessing whether system guidance is sufficiently protected and governable
Establish clear expectations for ownership, approvals, and change control for critical GenAI instructions
Adopt a lightweight validation approach to test effectiveness and maintain confidence over time
Who Should Attend:
Solution Essentials
Facilitated workshop (in-person or virtual)
4 hours
Intermediate
Shared collaboration space (virtual whiteboard or equivalent) and shared notes