In my previous blog, I asked Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT PLUS to assume the role of a Team Lead and solve for assigning loan servicing tasks fairly, providing transparency on task assignment, and creating documentary evidence of task completion. While the prompt I uploaded was identical for both, only ChatGPT PLUS produced a task assignment template.

For today’s blog, I uploaded the template to Gemini and ChatGPT PLUS and prompted each tool to create an April 2025 task assignment for fictitious team members.

Again, ChatGPT PLUS produced the superior result, populating the template with team member names. However, it failed to factor in the absences of two team members. This indicates I need to clarify that tasks should not be assigned to absent team members.

Regarding Gemini’s unusable output, I’ve been working with Gemini for a much shorter time than ChatGPT PLUS. The issue could lie, in part, with the structure of my prompts and my understanding of Gemini’s capabilities.

While solving pain points in your personal workflow is one of the benefits of AI, learning how to structure effective prompts for the AI tool in use is a key skill for a successful partnership.

Enjoy the read!

THE PROMPT

Please assign tasks for the month of April 2025. Using the provided template, create an April task assignment for the four team members noted below. Factor in the following:

a. the team member assigned to queue manager cannot also board loans

b. distribute tasks equally among team members

Team members: Meg, Dusty, Jo, and Preacher.

Absences:

—Dusty will be absent from work on April 7 - 11

—Jo will be absent from work on April 22-23

THE EXCEL TEMPLATE PROVIDED