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Write a culture memo your team lives by
Give it how your team works. Get a culture memo, a standards sheet and a rule to drop.
Write a culture memo your team lives by is a free AI workflow for the job "Lead and manage people". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
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What it does
Most culture documents are a list of nouns: integrity, ownership, excellence. Nobody disagrees and nothing changes, because the words do not say what to do when two good things collide. This workflow writes culture as behaviour. The memo says what the team does, what it refuses to do, and what it does when two good things collide, in the manner of the Netflix culture deck Reed Hastings and Patty McCord wrote. The standards sheet turns the memo into checks anyone can run, the way Ray Kroc wrote standards that made every store the same. The recognition plan makes the behaviour visible, with public, specific praise the way Mary Kay Ash ran her company. Then it picks one rule the memo makes unnecessary and plans a safe trial without it, following Patty McCord's rule to remove rules adults do not need.
You give it
- How your team really works: what gets praised, what gets ignored, the unwritten rules
- Where it falls short and the behaviour you want instead
- Your current rules and policies
- Your brand file or a past memo in your voice (optional)
- Brand brain (optional)
You get
- A culture memo that says what the team does and refuses to do
- A standards sheet with checks anyone can run
- A recognition plan with public, specific praise
- One rule to drop and a safe trial plan without it
Use it when
- Your team has grown past ten and new people cannot tell how things are done here.
- You have values on the wall and behaviour that does not match them.
- You want to drop a rule but fear what happens without it.
Steps
- Team culture memo writer: Describe your team and how you want it to work. Get a short culture memo with a keeper test and feedback rules.
- Repeatable standards sheet writer: Describe your product or service. Get a one-page sheet of checkable standards so it feels the same every time.
- Recognition plan designer: Describe your team and goals. Get a reward plan where anyone who reaches a set level wins, with a public moment.
- Policy removal test planner: Name a policy you suspect is not working. Get a small, dated test to remove it and what to measure.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- Paste how the team really works and where it falls short. It writes the memo and the standards.
- Read the memo with two people you trust. Cut any line that is a wish rather than a practice.
- Start the praise plan this week. Run the rule trial for the time it sets and review.