team-rituals

SKILL.md

Design effective team rituals that embed culture and operational rhythms into your organization.

Apply the golden rituals framework: name your rituals, template them for consistency, and teach them to every employee by their first week

Focus on specificity and purpose—rituals should drive measurable outcomes and solve real problems, not just be generic meetings with new names

Plan for adoption and sustainability by ensuring rituals can run without their creator and by introducing them early in the employee lifecycle

Common pitfalls include creating too many rituals, skipping templates, and launching rituals after onboarding when habits are already formed

Designing Team Rituals

Help the user design effective team rituals using frameworks and insights from 2 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with team rituals:

Understand the goal - Ask what behavior or outcome they want the ritual to drive

Apply the golden rituals framework - Ensure rituals are named, templated, and known by every employee's first Friday

Design for specificity - Help create rituals that go beyond generic meetings to drive specific outcomes

Plan for adoption - Discuss how the ritual will be introduced and maintained over time

Core Principles

Great companies have a small list of golden rituals

Shishir Mehrotra: "Great companies have a very small list of golden rituals. And there are three rules: they're named, every employee knows them by their first Friday, and they're templated." Rituals are the primary vehicle for culture and operational efficiency.