Ground rules are a common set of agreed standards in some process, such as negotiation, mediation, psychotherapy or facilitation, that allow meaningful dialogue to proceed with the aim of minimizing conflict.
Some common ground rules in business and organisational meetings may include:
- one speaker at a time should speak
- being receptive to the views of others
- participating actively in discussions
- strive for consensus
- no side conversations
- make discussions additive
- agree that all views have equal value
- use I statements
- what is said here, stays here
- stay in the here and now
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