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schedules, breaks, and other working Steps to follow:
conditions. - Assemble your team and explain the
Creating a collective agreement can be a purpose of the activity.
valuable exercise for teams, as it allows - Ask the participants to create the list of
everyone to contribute their ideas and the key elements that should be included
concerns and helps to build a sense of in your collective agreement. This may
include items such as communication
ownership and commitment to the team's
protocols, decision-making processes,
goals. By establishing clear expectations and
work schedules, performance
guidelines for working together, teams can
expectations, and conflict resolution
avoid misunderstandings and conflicts, and
procedures.
focus their energy on achieving their
- Divide into small groups and assign each
objectives.
group one or two elements to work on.
Have them develop specific language or
How to create a collective agreement? guidelines for their assigned elements.
1) Identify the issues: that need to be - Reconvene as a group and review each
addressed in the collective agreement. group's proposals. Discuss any
These may include things like work hours, disagreements or concerns, and work
communication expectations, collaboration together to develop a final version of the
protocols, workload distribution, and so on. collective agreement that everyone can
2) Get everyone involved: it should be created agree to.
in collaboration with the entire team. - Once the collective agreement is
Encourage everyone to share their complete, distribute it to all team
thoughts, concerns, and ideas about the members and post it in a visible location.
issues identified in step 1. Refer to it regularly during team meetings
3) Prioritise the issues: once you have a list of to ensure that everyone is following the
all the issues that need to be addressed, guidelines and expectations that have
prioritise them based on their importance been established.
to the team as a whole.
4) Negotiate the terms: like any negotiation, This activity can be adapted to fit the specific
creating a collective agreement involves needs and circumstances of your team. It is a
give-and-take. As you negotiate the terms useful tool for promoting collaboration,
of the agreement, be willing to compromise
and seek input from all team members. The
goal is to create an agreement that is fair
and acceptable to everyone.
5) Put it in writing: Once you have agreed
upon the terms of the collective agreement.

2.3.2 Practical Application: putting
knowledge into action for real-
world results based on how to
make collective agreements

The idea is to develop a collective agreement
that outlines the expectations and guidelines
for how your team will work together.

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