• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Right-Minded Teamwork

Right-Minded Teamwork

Develop People and Teams That Work

  • 0 items - $0.00
  • Checkout
  • My Account
  • Paperback Books
  • Ebooks & Resources
  • Reusable Resources
  • Team Building News
  • About
    • FAQs
    • Contact Us
    • Glossary of Terms
Show Search
Hide Search

How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements

Do No Harm. Work As One.™

Home » All Products » How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements

$17.99

A Practical, 10-Step Process for Building a Right-Minded Team That Works as One.

Creating & living Work Agreements will ensure your teammates Do No Harm and Work As One.

PaperBack – Amazon or Barnes&Noble

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

— OR —

Categories: Effective Teammate, Team Building Facilitation, Team Leader, Team Operating System, Team Work Agreement
  • Description
  • Reviews (0)

Description

Everything you need to know about How to Facilitate Team Work AgreementsA Work Agreement is a collective promise made by teammates to transform non-productive behavior into collaborative teamwork behavior. More is right here!

Package includes 2 PDFs, 1 Word Document, 1 ePUB

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

What Are Work Agreements?

Right-Minded Teammates – Do No Harm & they Work As One.

Work Agreements, the third Element of Right-Minded Teamwork’s 5 Elements frameworkRight-Minded Teamwork is built off a framework of 5 Elements consisting of two goals and three teamwork methods. More, defines how teammates Do No Harm while they Work As One. Work Agreements are used to transform unproductive, dysfunctional behavior into positive and constructive work behavior.

5 Elements of Right-Minded Teamwork

The 10 steps involved in creating Work Agreements are outlined in this book How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements: A Practical, 10-Step Process for Building a Right-Minded Team That Works as One.

This book is written primarily for team facilitators. But leaders and teammates can easily follow along to build Work Agreements, too.

Benefits of Team Work Agreements

First of all, Work Agreements are team covenants or vows that transform teammates’ dysfunctional and non-productive behavior into team cohesiveness and accomplishment.

And secondly, Work Agreements are not guidelines or ground rules. They are emotionally mature promises that guide a team to work collaboratively towards the shared goal of achieving customer satisfaction.

Work Agreements Resolve Conflicts

If you’ve ever been part of a team, you know it is not a matter of if conflict will occur among teammates. It is a question of when.

Teammates may function at acceptable levels for a while, but eventually, they will decline into separatenessOneness is a psychological state of mind. It can be described in many ways using phrases such do no harm, and work as one. More and self-interest.

It is far better to have Work Agreements in place before teammate disagreements happen. Established Work Agreements can serve to mitigate and even make positive use of those clashes when they occur. However, even if your team is already in conflict, it’s still not too late (and will never be!) to create and live team Work Agreements.

A Work Agreement’s Success Story

One year after this team created – and LIVED – its Work Agreements, the team had completely turned around. In just a year, they experienced:

  • 78% increase in teammate trust
  • 46% increase in mutual team member support
  • 61% increase in complying with decisions
  • Over $350,000 in savings.

Creating Work Agreements

To create Work Agreements, leaders and teammates must openly discuss unresolved interpersonal or work process issues. And together agree on what acceptable behavior looks like going forward. Emotionally mature and productive teammates intentionally create Work Agreements because they have experienced the benefits of a unified team with shared interests and common goals.

In my 35 years of active team building, I facilitated over 500 teams around the globe, many of them beautifully diverse and multicultural. Every single team created Work Agreements and succeeded as a result.

Work Agreements work when teammates live them.

Facilitating Work Agreements

The process for facilitating Work Agreements is not complicated. Nonetheless, becoming proficient in facilitating their creation takes dedication and a willingness to learn. As you practice, you will make mistakes, especially in the beginning. Don’t give up. Your mistakes will not hurt your teams – I promise. The long-lasting benefits you will bring to the team as you improve your facilitation skills will far outweigh any initial missteps.

By following the steps in the book How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements: A Practical, 10-Step Process for Building a Right-Minded Team That Works as One, you can learn how to facilitate Work Agreements for your team.

Here are the 10 Steps

  1. Agree on the first teamwork topic to address, which will result in a Work Agreement.
  2. Determine the topic’s desired outcome.
  3. Design an opening question to be asked to kick off the topic dialogue.
  4. When the time is right, ask the opening question for your topic.
  5. Capture legitimate behavioral answers on a flip chart.
  6. Write and propose an intention statement.
  7. After a short dialogue, ask if teammates agree to live the intention.
  8. Write clarifications and conditions for acceptance.
  9. Create an interlocking accountabilityInterlocking accountability is a crucial RMT concept that is primarily used in How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements. More condition.
  10. When everyone approves the Work Agreement, celebrate. Move to the next topic.

Two Types of Work Agreements

Work Agreement - Decision-Making
Click to Enlarge – Process Agreement

Work Agreements may be process-driven or behavior-driven.

A process Work Agreement describes who will do what task and which work method they will use. It defines work tasks in terms of roles, responsibilities, interfaces, or procedures.

A behavioral Work Agreement describes how people will behave while performing tasks, such as the ways teammates will bring to light, communicate, and resolve difficult performance issues or teammate conflicts. This type of Work Agreement aims for transparency in all interpersonal interactions.

Team Work Agreement Example
Click to Enlarge – Behavioral Agreement

Want Better Teamwork?

It is worth stating and restating: Right-Minded Teamwork has nothing to do with right-brain thinking or right-wing viewpoints.

Moreover, RMT has everything to do with what you and your teammates collectively decide is “right.” Therefore, your team’s choices – captured in your team Work Agreements – on what acceptable work behavior and efficient processes look like define your team’s Right-Minded Teamwork “thought systemWhat you believe is your thought system. Pause and reflect on this truth, and above all, be thankful that it is true. More.”

In short, the “right” way of doing, being, and behaving is the way that is right for your team. The “right” way is how your team decides you will do no harm and work as one.

Download How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements today!

So, to conclude, create and live Team Work Agreements now, so that you create and sustain the 5 elements of Right-Minded Teamwork in your team, tomorrow!

want better teamwork use the method and 12 step process

Right-Minded Teamwork is everyone’s right!

Thank you for your desire to create Right-Minded Teamwork in your team. You believe, like many others, it is everyone’s right to work together as one unified team and every person, including you and your teammates, may exercise their right – right now. Thank you for doing your part.

You see, by creating Right-Minded Teamwork in your team and organization, you help make the world a better place for everyone, everywhere, forever. Let’s get started right now.

Dan Hogan Certified Master FacilitatorDan Hogan, Certified Master Facilitator

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements” Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Right-Minded Teamwork Really Works

Robin Hensley, VP IT, UPS

Thanks for teaching us about our two choices [in the Right-Minded Choice Model]. It clearly shows me that I have two choices: I can either be a victim of the world I see, or I can be accountable and change the way I respond to every seeming difficulty that happens. Thanks again. I now feel more in control of myself!

Footer

Recent Posts

  • How to Be an Effective Team Building Facilitator
  • How Team Leaders Achieve Effective Teamwork
  • How to Create Team Working Agreements That Bring People Together

Connect

Get valuable insights. Receive our Reason, Ego & the Right-Minded Teamwork Myth PDF when you sign up for our newsletter.

We respect your email privacy

Privacy Policy - Terms and Conditions
Copyright © 2022 · Right-Minded Teamwork™ · A trademark of Lord and Hogan, LLC Log in