🎒 Microlesson

🪞 Reflect

How consistently does your distributed team meet expectations for communicating and collaborating?

💡 Concept

This microlesson is a roundup of some of our favorite ways for teams to align on expectations and improve their ability to collaborate. Click on each link below for more detailed information and tips.

🔔 Create a team boundaries agreement. 

If your company or team struggles with overwork and burnout, consider creating a boundaries agreement to document expectations around availability, working hours, responsiveness, and scheduling. Learn more here.

⌚ Set core meeting hours. 

Core meeting hours are periods of time during the workday reserved for essential team meetings. Establishing designated time frames for synchronous meetings ensures that team members can be available for collaboration, discussion, and decision-making. Learn more here.

✍️ Integrate team working agreements into your daily work. 

A team agreement is not something you can just "set and forget"—it only works if team members actually follow it. Ensuring that your team effectively integrates such an agreement into daily workflows requires ongoing commitment and reinforcement. Learn more here.

✅ Update your team agreements. 

Once you’ve set a team agreement, make sure to update it regularly. Proactively revisiting your team agreements will ensure that they align with current realities and enhance your team’s ability to navigate change.  Learn more here.

🎬 Take Action

• Choose one of the four actions listed in this microlesson and commit to trying it. 

• Complete your action within the next two weeks. 

• Reflect on the impact that your action has on your team’s ability to collaborate. 

• Share your results with your team.

🧠 Keep Learning

Learn more about how to set expectations for your team in Leadplaceless. 

✅ Check In

🎁 Learn with your team!

Refer our weekly microlessons to your team members to learn as a group! Just follow the instructions in the section below to get started.