<aside> 💡 Reminder: there is no one-size fits all approach, so we can’t copy & paste ways of working from another organisation. What works for one team may not be the right fit for yours, and the solution is for each team to discover through experimentation what works for them.

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• **Example Handbook / Team Agreement** | FD Works

  The FD Works Handbook outlines their way of working and ‘how we do things around here’. We built this together, and they have kindly agreed to allow it to be used as a template. Click the copy symbol in the top right to duplicate this template.

• **Open Org’s Employee Handbook Template** | Template

  Open Org filled this template with useful subject / business areas so that you can add/remove sections as you see fit - don't feel pressured to have to fill out every section. They also used real-life examples from other handbooks for you to use as inspiration.

• **Murmur* | Incredible software

  A collaborative platform where teams create, test, scale, and share working agreements. Murmur gives everyone the power to make work better by making collaborative decisions and agreements. For team agreements, this is the best software out there.

• **User Manuals for Teams* | Template

  If you don’t have one already, your team would really benefit from a user manual. Life at work is a lot easier when our colleagues know how we work best and when we know how our colleagues work best. So getting really clear about how you can best work together is a wonderful idea.

• *How do we want to be together | The Hum

  I love this step-by-step guide from The Hum to help you: gather input from the team, unpack the values and principles into actions, negotiate boundaries; delegate the completion of version 1 to a working group; and then iterate.

• **Working Agreements** | Atlassian workshop template

  Atlassian is a company that is certainly right up there when it comes to progressive ways of working. And helpfully, they’ve shared their ‘play’ to help your team to create a list of expectations of each other so you can work together successfully and avoid misunderstandings that may come up.

• **The Team Canvas** | Miro workshop template

  Get clear on the purpose, roles, goals, values, needs, rules and expectations of a team with the workshop template.

• Hybrid Team Agreements | Miro workshop template

  Clarify who will be working from where; what you want to do in real-time and what can be done asynchronously; how and when you want to collaborate and communicate; what day your recurring team meetings will be; and how you can hold each other accountable.

• How to Facilitate Powerful Working Agreements | Scrum Alliance workshop template

  Making social standards explicit for teams may feel unfamiliar. Some team members may feel awkward when asked to write down what seems to be obvious, professional behavioural expectations, but doing so is important. When team members don’t, they tend to make assumptions about what the other person wants or intended.