Master this four part framework to make better agreements and become a better boss

When your team members, or your boss for that matter, aren't meeting your expectations it can be incredibly disappointing, frustrating and disheartening...who am I kidding, down right infuriating!

It creates a world of pain as you wonder how to get things back on track.

My strong suggestion is to minimise this type of disappointment by making better agreements. As Brene Brown would put it: "Clear is Kind, Unclear is unkind."

My suspicion is that you aren't doing this already because in some ways it's easier not to have agreements.

Or perhaps you don't trust other people to stick to them.

Or perhaps you don't trust yourself to stick to them.

Perhaps you don't want to seem bossy or bitchy by making agreements.

Or perhaps things feel so uncertain right now that you wouldn't even know how to go about making an agreement.

But when you master the art of making agreements things begin to change.

You and your team can begin to work faster and smarter because you know the boundaries of what you're doing and how.

You can trust that you're team will escalate things to you appropriately because you've agreed those communication and escalation protocols in advance.

Team members will be more committed to doing the things that have been agreed because they were consulted and they actually agreed, rather than receiving a vague request or a forceful decree.

You will have better accountability and feedback conversations because it feels and sounds very different to say "we agreed to this, what happened?" than it does to say "I expected x,y,z, why didn't it happen?"

Sounds good right?

In this video I cover the simple four part framework that will help you make better agreements:

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