What are working agreements

Defaults for how we engage with one another

A recurring theme in the things I read and listen to on organisational excellence is the concept of being explicit about things. About everything.

Intentionality in organisations seems to be like exercise or sleep for human health: it's a basic requirement for organisational health, but so simple we sometimes forget about it.

Many folks have concluded that what ails most teams is assumptions (this is a large part of what drove us to engage with Junxion on the biggest parts of what we do: our mission and our values.)

Working agreements are intended to cover more mundane things, to be explicit and intentional in order to help us be accountable to each other but also, by putting it down in writing, to leave it open to discussion, revision and fine-tuning.

My intention in starting this is to explicitly open this up - it is NOT to shut it down. It's just that I know that I'm the nerd on these things (on Wednesday evening I went to a pub, had a pint of Guinness and a pack of Tayto's and read about tools for sharing information, and systems of membership...). I still need to figure out how to share this so that you can all review this and suggest edits etc.

What you'll see today (13 December 2019) is some blank pages with titles, like meetings, Slack, decision-making, etc. I'm going to start filling these in, but you can too!