[mplanchard]

We also did these at a previous company. The process made me fairly uncomfortable, because it felt very egocentric and unrealistic. And in my experience everyone just ignored them and interacted with each other in the normal patterns that would have developed anyway.

If you prefer people to interact with you a certain way, you’re going to have to remind them of it regularly regardless. And if you want people to understand why you interact a certain way with them, you’re going to have to explain it in context when it happens. Ultimately our relationships are formed by our shared experiences and our lived reality, and no amount of referring to a document will change that.

I could definitely see how this would be useful for a manager, but in the context of writing one to be public for my fellow employees to read I did not enjoy the experience.