Working Agreements

Recent studies have shown that clarity of expectations, coupled with a desire for flawless implementation leads to better than a 30% improvement in team member performance. While the desire for flawless implementation is usually present in functional working relationships, the question that bubbles to the surface is: How best to achieve clarity of expectations between leaders, teams, and team members? The method used needs to be flexible enough to accommodate all types of working relationships. This can include: leader-leader relationships, leader-follower relationships, leader-team relationships, team-team relationships, and follower-follower relationships. In addition, the collaboration method employed should be able to handle situations in which the working relationship is new, existing, troubled, or separated geographically. A construct to enable better communication and collaboration between the aforementioned relationships and situations is called a working agreement. 

Our working agreement and collaboration services may be utilized at all levels within a company. A working agreement is a flexible process that may be used in all types of situations, whether new or existing. The manner in which a working agreement can be utilized includes:

• Two individuals who are peers
• A superior and a subordinate
• An individual and a group, team, department, or region
• Two teams  
• Situations where individuals or groups are separated geographically and most of their interaction is not face-to-face
• Situations where a good relationship exists and the individuals/teams are seeking to move to a higher level of performance
• Situations when an individual or a team is underperforming and corrective action is sought 

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