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Write Your Own Colleague Principles

The seven headings Morning Star's colleagues sign, with room under each to draft your own team's commitment: written before the conflict, not after.

45 minutes, alone or as a teamCompanion to Morning Star Colleague PrinciplesDEEP THINKINGCOMMUNICATION MINDSET
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How to use this sheet
  1. Use it alone to draft, or with your team to agree. A principle only works if the people living under it wrote it or signed it.
  2. Under each heading, write one commitment as an action someone could see you do, not a value on a poster.
  3. Conflict resolution gets written now, step by step, before there is a conflict to resolve.
  4. Keep each one short enough to remember. Then ask who will sign it.
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  1. Mission

    The outcome we commit to, for the people we serve.

  2. Teamwork

    How we work with each other day to day.

  3. Personal responsibility

    What each of us owns, without being asked.

  4. Tolerance

    How we treat difference, in people and in ideas.

  5. Conflict resolution

    The steps, in order: who we talk to first, then who joins, then who decides.

  6. Mutual support

    What caring looks like as an action: what we share, how we help.

  7. Integrity

    What doing what is right means here, concretely.

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Source Based on the Morning Star Colleague Principles, The Morning Star Company (1990-2013), a self-management manufacturing company with no formal managers or job titles.