(Adapted from The Handbook for SMART School Teams by Anne Conzemiusand Jan O’Neill, 2002)Ground rules help a group take ownership of its collective behavior, articulateits concerns, and take action on those concerns by establishing their ownnorms of conduct as a team.
This question, called “The Cotter Question” after its creator, Maury
Cotter from the University of Wisconsin’s Office of QualityImprovement, usually generates some laughter, but after the groupbegins to really think about it, they discover that some of theirprevious team experiences were bad enough to have been planned thatway.
Typical ground rule topics and some examples...
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