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4.6% of Hawke's Bay employees work in government

ChatGPT training for Hawke's Bay public services

Explore practical drafting and analysis with a clear source trail. Staff learn to test ChatGPT on bounded public-sector tasks before the organisation decides what to permit.

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Employees in government
4,038Hawke's Bay, February 2025
Share of Hawke's Bay employees
4.6%9 of 16 regions
Share across New Zealand
6.4%all regions, February 2025
Location quotient
0.72×less concentrated than nationally

Government in Hawke's Bay

A generic council engagement team can start with invented submissions about a public service. Staff agree the categories, test whether comments can belong to several themes and inspect examples the tool has placed in each group. The result is a working table for an analyst to review. The analyst decides what the evidence supports and how it should be presented to decision-makers.

TheColab delivers workplace training across Hawke's Bay, tailored to the approved tasks and accounts available to your team. Projects organise related sources and instructions, while data analysis supports tables and inspectable working.4,6 We begin with public or fictional material, then define the checks a genuine agency workflow would need.

Paid employees in government went from 3,727 in February 2020 to 4,038 in February 2025 (+8.3%).

Share of paid employees in government, by region

Share of employees in government by region, Hawke's Bay highlighted
RegionChartShareNZ×
Wellington 17.8% 6.4% 2.8×
Manawatū-Whanganui 9.5% 6.4% 1.5×
Northland 6.2% 6.4% 1.0×
Waikato 5.0% 6.4% 0.8×
Canterbury 4.8% 6.4% 0.8×
Gisborne 4.8% 6.4% 0.7×
Marlborough 4.8% 6.4% 0.8×
Auckland 4.7% 6.4% 0.7×
Hawke's Bay (this page) 4.6% 6.4% 0.7×
Bay of Plenty 4.5% 6.4% 0.7×
Otago 4.4% 6.4% 0.7×
Taranaki 4.4% 6.4% 0.7×
West Coast 4.4% 6.4% 0.7×
Nelson 4.2% 6.4% 0.7×
Southland 3.6% 6.4% 0.6×
Tasman 2.1% 6.4% 0.3×

Paid employees at business locations in the region, February 2025. The tick marks the national share. × is the regional share divided by the national share.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Local context

  • Hawke's Bay Regional Council's 2025 invitation sought public input to shape flood resilience and future investment. That local context suits a training exercise on preserving differences between submitted views and an analyst's interpretation.11
  • Hastings Council's economic resource library lists regional agency studies covering transport, telecommunications and vocational education. Staff can practise briefing from an accepted public source set without suggesting that all reports concern the same service or decision.22

Organisations are named for local context only. No relationship with them is implied.

Towns in Hawke's Bay

Each town page has its own figures and local brief.

Or see ChatGPT training across Hawke's Bay.

Where ChatGPT helps government teams

  • Set up a public briefing Project

    Gather accepted public reports and a fictional briefing question into a Project. The documented feature keeps files, chats and instructions together.4 Ask ChatGPT to draft only from that pack and expose any question it cannot answer. A policy analyst checks references and removes unsupported causal claims. Keep the approved paper in the agency's records process, alongside the information needed to explain how its conclusions were reached.

    • Briefing analyst
    • ChatGPT Projects

  • Test consultation themes against comments

    Use fabricated submissions with reference IDs and an agreed coding scheme. Ask data analysis to produce a row-level theme table before counting categories. Analysis supports uploaded tables and reviewable calculations.6 Inspect comments that fit poorly or express a minority view. Distinguish the number of comments from the number of people, and document exclusions. The engagement analyst determines the accepted interpretation before drafting the public summary.

    • Engagement research officer
    • Data analysis

  • Build an internal procedure skill

    Turn accepted non-sensitive staff guidance into a skill. Its supporting files provide reference content, its instructions define how it should respond, and workspace settings control who can use it.5 Require it to show a source and identify missing guidance. Test ambiguous questions about responsibility or approvals before sharing it with the pilot group. The procedure owner must decide what is authoritative; a generated response cannot invent a delegation or approve an exception.

    • Corporate services coordinator
    • Skills with controlled files

  • Retrieve a permitted policy document

    Where the administrator has approved a suitable app, practise searching a restricted policy collection. Connected apps can retrieve and reference supported information, with availability determined by account and workspace conditions.7 Open the source to confirm its version and status. Keep actions that write or publish outside the initial trial. Inspect returned references for unrelated material before accepting a summary as the basis for an internal answer.

    • Information support specialist
    • Approved app connectors

Inspect a consultation theme table

  1. Create fictional comments that include agreement, disagreement and an unusual concern.
  2. Agree category definitions and ask for a table that retains the original comment references.
  3. Review the coding row by row and correct categories that obscure the comment's meaning.
  4. Write a draft summary from the accepted table and preserve the analyst's review notes.

Courses

  1. 1Organisation

    ChatGPT Business and Enterprise rollout

    Set up a ChatGPT workspace properly: plan choice, admin settings, an AI use policy, shared skills and Projects, and support that keeps people using it.

  2. 2Advanced

    Skills, plugins, workspace agents and connected apps

    For power users and technical leads: skills, plugins, Projects, ChatGPT Work, connected apps, data analysis and workspace agents.

Government in other regions

Other industries in Hawke's Bay

See ChatGPT for government and public services across New Zealand, or all training in Hawke's Bay.

Government in Hawke's Bay: questions

Can the tool decide what the public prefers?

An analyst must evaluate the evidence and its limitations. A generated category count does not establish representative public opinion. Use row-level review to preserve context before making any claim about the consultation.

Does this assume our council has adopted ChatGPT?

No local adoption is asserted. The page offers possible training workflows based on public regional activities. Your organisation chooses the approved tool environment and task scope before a staff trial.

Do you still teach agent mode?

No. OpenAI says agent mode is no longer available.8 We plan around verified Projects, skills, analysis and app functions, then check current account capabilities before adding another workflow.

How should a rollout owner prepare?

Choose a permitted task, an accepted source pack and the person who can review its result. Include governance and information-management staff in planning so the exercise fits the agency's existing approval route.

Train your government team in Hawke's Bay

  1. Send us a few linesHow many people, where you are, and the jobs that eat your week.
  2. We reply with a planA suggested session and format, plus what to bring: real quotes, emails and questions.
  3. Your team does the workAt your place or over video. They finish with ChatGPT doing real tasks, not demos.
  • In person
  • Remote
  • Half-day workshop
  • Full-day workshop
  • Team rollout

Independent training by TheColab. Not affiliated with OpenAI.

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Sources

Written 6 October 2026. Employment figures come from Stats NZ Business Demography Statistics.