How to define a Team Alliance
How to define a Team Alliance — what it is, why it matters, and how to actually run the conversation with your team.
Year 2025Read 1 min
What it is
A Team Alliance is the explicit contract about how we work together: communication norms, decision rights, feedback style, and how we recover when things go wrong.
Why it matters
Without it, teams guess. Guessing creates politics. Politics replaces craft.
How to run it
Keep the session concrete. Use prompts that produce behaviors, not values posters. Revisit quarterly — alliances expire when the work changes.
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