Create a forming-stage working agreement that makes goals, norms, and interpersonal risk explicit.
The first team meeting is not admin time; it is risk design. A forming team is quietly answering: What are we doing, how do we behave, and what happens if I say the uncomfortable thing? Three agreements to make visible Start with the result. A team can be busy together and still not be a team if each function is optimizing a different win. Name the result in measurable language so tradeoffs have a reference point. Then name the conflict rule. Tuckman's storming stage becomes productive only when disagreement has a container. A useful rule sounds operational: "disagree in the…
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