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    The document provides steps for creating team norms to improve interactions between team members. It involves drafting proposed norms, gathering all members to discuss the proposals, letting an outside facilitator lead the discussion, brainstorming additional ideas without criticism, agreeing on final norms, committing to applying the norms, distributing the final list, and periodically evaluating the effectiveness of the norms. The goal is to establish guidelines that promote effective conflict communication and commitment among team members.

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    Creating Team Norms

    Now that we have established the essentials of team norms, the next step is to create these

    norms so that each team member learn to interact with fellow members, as well as those

    outside of the team, effectively and successfully. If you lead a team that has difficulty of

    interacting with each other, perhaps you need to follow these steps in creating and developing

    team norms.

    Form a charter – Draft a list of proposed team norms that you want to project in your team. You

    could also follow team norms from other work groups. You could also advise your co-members

    to make up their own ideas for team norms.

    Gather your members – Schedule and hold a meeting to introduce the proposed team norms to

    your members. Make sure that all team members must be present at the meeting so that the

    norms can be “owned” by all of them. If one member is absent or does not attend, postpone the

    meeting for another day.

    Let an outside person facilitate – It is best that a person outside of your team facilitate the

    meeting so that members would not feel that they are being “dictated” by a new set of rules. In

    the absence of a facilitator, let another team member lead the meeting.

    Let ideas flow – Begin the brainstorming by brining out each of the member’s drafts for a team

    norm. Let them provide additional ideas as they come along. The more ideas generated, the

    better. Remember not to comment or critique on the ideas, and instead list everything on the

    board so the whole group can see them.

    Discuss about these ideas – Once the proposed norms are generated on the board, you might

    want to cross out redundant ideas off the list. You can decide to keep all the group norms
    listed, or you can discuss to determine the group norms your group wishes to keep. Although

    there is no recommended number of group norms you can keep, it is best to let common sense

    prevail when you find there are one too many guidelines. You could also add new group norms

    over time if the team sees it fit.

    Only pay attention to how you interact – Group norms does not concern all group behavior and

    therefore should not be legislated. What needs attention are the important interaction areas

    including effective conflict communication, and keeping commitments.

    Commit to the norms – Once the set of guidelines has been agreed upon by all members, they

    are also bound to commit into applying the team norms, as well as telling each other if they

    believe a group member is violating these norms.

    Distribute the list of team norms– After the meeting, distribute to all member the group norms

    that they have agreed upon.

    Evaluate the team norms – After a certain period of time, such as every three months, evaluate

    how the team norms are affecting the group into achieving its business goals as well as its

    members’ relationship goals.

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