192R: How to Create Team Guidelines, with Susan Gerke

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is a re-airing of episode 192. New episodes return on Monday, August 14th.
Susan Gerke: GO Team Resources
Susan Gerke has been the president of Gerke Consulting & Development. She has worked with global teams and has certified facilitators around the world to deliver management, leadership, and team offerings. Susan is co-creator of GO Team, a training suite for organizations to power team performance.
Key Points

Don’t create guidelines yourself and give them to the team.
A starting point for how to create team guidelines is what did not work well on a previous team.
The interpersonal dynamics that emerge are more critical than the guidelines themselves.
Aim to create no more than 8 guidelines.
Disagreement is the sign of a healthy team.
Continue to revisit guidelines in future meetings and team milestone (new members join or the team, change to team composition or purpose)

Resources Mentioned

GO Team Resources

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0:00.0	Before I share this week's conversation with you, I am taking a brief pause on airing
0:04.8	new episodes until Monday, August 14th.
0:08.5	Now in the past, when I've taken a pause, I've posted a brief announcement and then let
0:12.0	the show sit dark for a few weeks.
0:14.5	However, I got to think in this year that rather than doing that, since 75% of our download
0:21.3	traffic every month comes from episodes that have aired more than a month ago, I got
0:26.0	to think that it'd be helpful, perhaps, to re-air a few episodes that I think would
0:31.4	be helpful to you while the show is dark on new episodes.
0:36.0	And I posed that question to our members recently and said, would this be helpful?
0:40.6	And a whole bunch of people responded and said, yes, but if you do, make sure you have
0:45.4	a theme.
0:46.4	And so here's the theme, the episodes that I keep coming back to.
0:52.1	These three episodes are for the next three weeks that I'm re-airing.
0:55.7	Our episodes that continually come up in conversation continually get asked about by our Academy
1:01.4	members.
1:02.4	Our ones I find myself continually passing along over the years have been timeless in so
1:08.3	many ways.
1:09.3	And the very first one is the conversation you're about to hear, which is a re-airing of
1:13.8	episode 192, how to create team guidelines.
1:18.6	Susan Gurkey is my guest on this conversation.
1:21.4	Susan and I have known each other for 20 years.
1:23.8	She's probably the most talented professional I know on helping leaders lead teams effectively.
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