Working agreements template

Start by @ mentioning participants and share the page with your team before you meet. Once you’re together, kick off the team exercise by asking the group to think about what helps them collaborate effectively. Each participant should add ideas to the page. Then discuss those ideas as a group and transform them into draft working agreements. Review the page as a team to combine similar ideas and move off-topic ideas to the Parking lot section.

Once your team has finished drafting working agreements, read each agreement out loud and then vote as a team to commit to the agreement. Quickly vote by adding a thumbs up emoji next to agreements you support. Type : to choose and add emojis to the page. By the end of the exercise, you should get a thumbs up from all participants on all agreements.

After the group has voted, add your final working agreements to the page. Share the page with teammates that couldn’t attend the exercise and encourage them to add comments. You can also add your working agreements to other team pages and workspaces to keep them top of mind.