Building Alignment - Team Working Agreements
summary
Advocates creating concise, visible team working agreements for remote teams that translate high‑level principles into specific behaviors (examples: set Slack acknowledgement and turnaround times, schedule regular social time, separate decision‑making rules). Use lightweight facilitation like Lego Serious Play or icon/emoji picks to surface values, ask everyone to propose one behavior, and agree on 3–5 items to keep it actionable. Include an explicit escalation mechanism (a code word such as broccoli), store agreements in the team’s visual space, and review them regularly.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 3:29Working Agreements - why?
- 7:52A good working agreement is...
- 10:16Questions for Exploring Expectations
- 13:25for remote teams
- 16:43Framework for building working agreement
- 19:13Further reading
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