Government Leader Prompt Pack
Use ChatGPT Work as a reflection partner to help with conversations, coaching, STAR examples, SMART goals, ladders, improvement, and promotion.
How to use
DIRECTION
Replace bracketed text with your context. Paste only approved information into ChatGPT Work. Ask for facts, inferences, gaps, options, and language you can adapt in your own voice.
Difficult conversations
USE WHEN
Address a performance gap, behavior issue, missed expectation, or trust breakdown.
PROMPT
Act as my preparation partner. Context: [role], [expectation], [facts], [impact], [prior feedback],
[desired behavior]. Draft a respectful opening, three questions to understand their view, two ways to
name the impact, and a closing commitment. Separate facts from interpretation.
Coaching prompts
USE WHEN
Prepare a better 1:1 or development conversation.
PROMPT
Review this evidence and create a coaching plan. Identify strengths, one growth edge, the pattern
behind the issue, five coaching questions, one low-risk practice assignment, and the follow-up I
should schedule.
STAR examples
USE WHEN
Create clean examples for reviews, calibration, awards, or promotion packets.
PROMPT
Convert these notes into three STAR examples. Label Situation, Task, Action, and Result. Quantify
impact where possible, name the behavior demonstrated, and flag missing evidence to confirm.
SMART goals
USE WHEN
Turn a vague priority into measurable expectations.
PROMPT
Turn this priority into two SMART goals. Make each goal specific, measurable, achievable, relevant,
and timebound. Include leading indicators, lagging indicators, risks, and a weekly check-in question.
Career ladder prompts
USE WHEN
Connect current evidence to level expectations.
PROMPT
Compare this employee's evidence to the career ladder for [level/role]. Show where evidence is
strong, where it is thin, what signals would demonstrate readiness, and what assignments would
build those signals.
Performance improvement prompts
USE WHEN
Create a fair, documented, supportive improvement plan.
PROMPT
Draft a performance improvement support plan using [expectations], [evidence], [impact], [prior
support], [required change], and [timeline]. Include measurable milestones, manager support,
employee actions, and check-in cadence.
Promotion prompts
USE WHEN
Assess readiness or prepare a balanced promotion case.
PROMPT
Assess promotion readiness against [criteria]. Organize evidence by scope, impact, consistency,
leadership, and next-level behaviors. Draft a balanced narrative, likely calibration questions, and
proof gaps.
