How to test new ways of working in your team

Tips on how to test drive ideas for new rituals & co to help your team continuously improve

Hey there,

You probably know the feeling: a team member comes up to you and suggests an improvement to how you work. It seems like a good idea, but you’re not sure whether it will actually make everyone on the team happy. How can you “test-drive” ideas on your team’s work context? After all you probably want to make sure that your team’s work context improves every day and week.

How to test new ways of working in your team

👉 Exercise: How to design team rituals - by Fearless Culture

Take Aways: When you feel a tension around one particular way that your team is working, use this template/process with your team to “design a solution” for the tension. Comes with a handy template of the Team Ritual Canvas.

Here is a longer medium post by the same author: How to Design Team Rituals to Accelerate Change

👉 Important Steps when Building a new Team - by MIT

Take Aways: This article summarises all important steps to go through when assembling a new team, including the step 6 which shows how to build an effective “team process”. This article gives a hands-on suggestion on how to deal with new ideas by team members and why even the half-baked ideas are important to surface.

👉 Designing Team Rituals - by Lattice

Take Aways: This is an article by the design team at Lattice, which showcases a few really cool rituals and how they use them. It even showcases a Notion template for the Monday “Warmup” which looks really fancy ✨ 👇

How do you iterate on your team’s rituals? I’d love to know! Respond to this email with your take and let’s figure this out together!

Thanks,

Darja