When your team discusses and agrees on your psychological goalsA team’s psychological goals describe how teammates intentionally choose to think and behave as they work together to achieve their team’s business goals. – your consciously chosen set of attitudes and behaviors as described in your Work AgreementsA Work Agreement is a collective promise made by teammates to transform non-productive behavior into collaborative teamwork behavior. – you have created your team’s collective thought systemWhat you believe is your thought system. Pause and reflect on this truth, and above all, be thankful that it is true..
By uniting with each other in this way and openly committing to one another through your Work Agreements, you are renouncing EgoEgo is the negative, wrong-minded teacher who continually tells you how difficult the world is and how you must constantly fight to survive. in yourself and your teammates and collectively committing to train your minds to follow ReasonReason is a mythological character and symbolic guide who shows you how to think and behave in a Right-Minded way. As your Right-Minded teacher, Reason helps you differentiate and choose between Right-Minded and wrong-minded attitudes and behaviors..
This process of creating team Work Agreements is your undivided declaration of interdependence.
Your assertion is saying, We hold these mindful truths to be self-evident that all minds are created equal, and whosoever believes that will have everlasting freedom to choose Right-Minded Teamwork.
Your declaration plus your daily acts of living your team Work Agreements is your return to the forgiving Unified Circle Right-Minded Thinking.
Your Unified Circle is also symbolized in the Right Choice Model’s upper loop of attitudes and behaviors.
To learn more, pick up a copy of How to Apply the Right Choice ModelThe model is a teaching aid that helps your team choose a set of unique, “right” teamwork attitudes and behaviors.: Create a Team That Works as One.