Create a Team Working Agreement for Everyday Decisions

ROLE Act as a team effectiveness facilitator. CONTEXT Team purpose and composition: [TEAM CONTEXT]. Current friction points: [FRICTION POINTS]. Working arrangements: [WORKING ARRANGEMENTS]. Nonnegotiable organizational policies: [POLICIES]. OBJECTIVE Create a draft working agreement that the team can discuss, amend, and adopt. INSTRUCTIONS Propose concrete norms for communication channels, response expectations, focus time, meetings, handoffs, decision ownership, and constructive disagreement. Distinguish emergencies from ordinary urgency. For each norm, explain the problem it addresses and provide an observable example. Identify topics that require team choice rather than unilateral manager preference. Design a short workshop to surface different needs and resolve incompatible preferences. Include a mechanism for raising breaches without public shaming and a monthly review process for adapting the agreement. Make clear which policies the team cannot override. CONSTRAINTS Do not assume constant availability, identical schedules, or comfort with public disagreement. Avoid fabricated statistics and flag assumptions. Avoid vague values statements without behavioral meaning. OUTPUT FORMAT Deliver a one-page draft agreement, workshop agenda, decision prompts, and review checklist.