While chartering creates clarity about a team’s overall purpose and context, it doesn’t do a ton to nurture deeper and more functional relationships within the group. That’s where the User Manual to Me, first introduced by Ivar Kroghrud in an interview with the New York Times, comes in and takes things to the next level. The idea is genius: what if we each wrote a user manual about how to work with us and shared it with our teams? Suddenly they’d know why we always seem skeptical or prefer to give feedback in person or get so excited about a good pun. How much time and confusion could we save?
