Teams & coaching team session

Before the session

Read Days 82, 83 and 88 (about five minutes each), or Module 9 on the cheat sheet.

The 30 minutes

1. 0–5 minOpen

   Quick round: one thing that makes it easier for you to say you're stuck.

2. 5–15 minDiscuss three days
   • Day 82: Make bad news safe.When someone raises a problem early, how do we respond, and what does that teach them?
   • Day 83: Clear boundaries. Real authority.Which decisions do we think are ours that still go up the line?
   • Day 88: Agree how you'll work.What quiet frustrations about how we work together could we turn into an agreement?
3. 15–25 minExercise: Write the agreements

   Each person writes two or three working agreements alone, in three minutes. Group the similar ones, then agree five to ten the whole team can live with. Put them where everyone can see them.

4. 25–30 minAction for the week

   The team tries its working agreements for a week, and each person notes one that helped and one that needs changing.

   Agree the team rule: “Make bad news safe to say early.”