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Agree ground rules for a hybrid or remote team
Half the team's at home, half in the office, and meetings are a mess. Get a one-page team agreement covering meetings, messages, office days and response times.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me draft ground rules for our hybrid or remote team. The team: [size, roles, where people work] Tools we use: [e.g. Teams, Slack, email] What's going wrong: [e.g. missed decisions, out-of-hours messages] Office days: [pattern, if any] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A one-page draft team agreement: meetings, decisions, messages and response times, office days, focus time and out of hours. 2. A 30-minute meeting plan to agree it as a team. 3. Three questions to ask the team before finalising. 4. A review date and how to check it's working. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. size, roles, where people work: a short note you already have. e.g. Teams, Slack, email: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
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