Passive process

Building and managing a team, there’s a basic compact about how we work together. Every team is different. Most work out the way they do things as they do them and come to a collective unspoken understanding as they get things done.

Sometimes the passive process doesn’t work. There’s a disconnect about behaviours, about expectations, about the most seamless least friction way to make progress.

When that happens – and you know it every time you see repeated frustrations and flashes of not-again irritation – it’s time to get explicit.

That doesn’t mean standing at the front making the Commitment speech.

It does mean diving into team dynamics and bringing the unsaid on to the table and getting those around the table to sort out their expectations.

Making things clear, collectively, is usually enough to reset the team compact.

Skippy strategy: Ask, how does this team want to work as a team?

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