Description
Is your team grappling with interpersonal conflicts, lackluster performance, or procedural challenges?
Elevate your team dynamics with Right-Minded Teamwork’s Work AgreementsA Work Agreement is a collective teammate promise to transform non-productive, adversarial behavior into collaborative teamwork behavior. More. Foster a harmonious work environment where teammates collaboratively commit to Do No Harm and Work as One ®, ensuring seamless cooperation towards common goals.
About Right-Minded Teamwork’s Work Agreements
Right-Minded Teamwork unveils a business-centric, psychologically informed [think: emotionally intelligent] approach to team building, where acceptance, forgiveness, and adjustment become defining teammate traits, culminating in a team result of 100% customer satisfactionCreating 100% customer satisfaction is a primary goal of Right-Minded Teamwork. More. Within RMT’s comprehensive framework, Work Agreements stand as the third pillar among the five essential tools known as the 5 Elements.
Work Agreements transcend mere guidelines or ground rules; they are collective commitments and emotionally mature promises that empower teams to transform non-productive and dysfunctional behaviors into positive, constructive choices and actions. Serving as the linchpin for transformative team dynamics, these agreements guide teams towards a common objective: achieving unparalleled customer satisfaction.
In essence, this book serves as your guide to crafting and implementing impactful Work Agreements within your team. While there isn’t a singular, absolute method for facilitating Work Agreement dialogues, the 10 Steps outlined in this book form the foundational principles for team transformation. Equip yourself with these principles, and success in fostering a harmonious, high-performing team is within reach.
Who Should Read This Book?
While team facilitators are the primary audience for this book, it extends its value to encompass team leaders and individual teammates alike. The steps outlined within these pages empower not only facilitators but also team leaders and members to craft impactful team Work Agreements. By following these guidelines, you can proactively address and prevent interpersonal conflicts and process challenges, ensuring a more powerful and effective collaborative environment for all.
Work Agreements: Effectively Navigate Team Conflict
Team dynamics are bound to encounter conflicts, making it essential to equip yourself with the right tools. It is not a matter of if conflict will occur among teammates. It is a question of when.
Enter Work Agreements – the operator’s manual for fostering strong teamwork. This book emphasizes the proactive establishment of Work Agreements to prevent conflicts from escalating into divisive and ego-centered behaviors. By transforming dysfunctional work dynamics into mature, behavioral promises, Work Agreements rekindle ally-centered collaboration and yield tangible results.
While it’s ideal to implement Work Agreements proactively, addressing conflicts head-on is equally crucial. Even if your team is currently facing challenges, it’s never too late to introduc
e and actively embrace Work Agreements. This guide empowers you to turn teammate clashes into opportunities for positive change, ensuring that your team remains cohesive and productive.
Standard 3 Workshop Implementation Plan
This comprehensive case study details how Maria, a successful team leader, applied RMT Work Agreements to transform a struggling team in just 12 months. The article provides field-tested, real-world lessons (no games) for transforming any team from “storming” into a high-performing unit.
Unveiling Two Essential Types of Work Agreements
Explore the intricacies of Work Agreements by delving into their two fundamental types: process-driven and behavior-driven.
A process Work Agreement outlines task assignments, work methods, and defines roles, responsibilities, interfaces, or procedures. It serves as the guidebook for the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of executing tasks within a team.
On the other hand, a behavioral Work Agreement shifts the focus to interpersonal dynamics. It details how team members should conduct themselves while achieving their tasks, emphasizing communication and conflict resolution. This type of agreement fosters transparency in all interactions, ensuring a harmonious and collaborative work environment.
Work Agreements: A Success Story
After this team created – and lived! – its Work Agreements, they completely turned around. In just a year, they experienced:
- 78% increase in teammate trust
- 46% increase in mutual team member support
- 61% increase in compliance with decisions
- Over $350,000 in savings
This is a MUST-READ. Their full story is in the book.
Everything You Need to Get Started Is Here!
This package contains these downloadable files:
- Ebook: PDF, 266 pages – How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements
- Ebook: ePUB, 266 pages – How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements
- PDF: 54 pages, How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements – Resources
- Word Document: 14 pages, How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements – Reusable Resources
Reusable Resources
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Download our ✅ FREE ebook package, Reason, Ego & the Right-Minded Teamwork MythIn this short story, we will meet three characters: Reason, Ego and the Decision-Maker. Each plays a key role in creating or destroying teamwork. More: The Philosophy and Process for Creating a Right-Minded Teamwork Works Together as One. 👈 It provides a comprehensive introduction to RMT’s ultimate, real-world, team-building philosophy and process.
May OnenessOneness is a psychological state of mind. It can be described in many ways using phrases such do no harm, and work as one. Separateness is its opposite. More be With You & Your Teammates 🙏
Betsy Bond –
This is a practical way to help teams define how they are going to behave with each other. If you are trying to build a team, take a look at this very practical content on getting teams to see eye to eye and understand how to work together.
Dan Hogan –
Thank you, Betsy. Yes, Work Agreements most certainly get “teams to see eye to eye and understand how to work together”…as one unified team!
Dan Hogan –
I’ve been a trainer/facilitator for over 15 years [now 25 years], and I thought I knew a lot about facilitating conflict meetings. But the [Right-Minded Teamwork] Team Work Agreement process beats all that I’ve ever seen. I’m looking forward to learning and using that tool here at Prairie Island. Jim Lash, Former Training Manager,
Dan Hogan –
It was about 28 years ago [1992] when we first met [Dan]. The facilitation and teamwork fundamentals that you taught back then are still the way I conduct meetings and interact with others…with great success. It’s amazing how well-founded and effective your guidance and coaching was and how much it has helped me in trying to be a good leader. Phillip Myint, Managing Principal at EDG, Inc.