Setting expectations

Since team members can only meet (and surpass!) expectations that they fully understand, as a team lead, you should make expectations clear by explicitly stating:

• short and long-term goals (short term goals in weekly increments help people make progress; long-term ones help people gain meaning from their work)
• daily/weekly commitment expectations (we recommend having at least one multi-hour chunk where people can work together every week)
• meeting times (daily stand-ups of even 10 mins are incredibly valuable for driving engagement)
• communication channels (Create a Slack team!)
• project management tools
• workflows (e.g. an excellent example from an internal team

Fortunately, most of this has already been done in the Attracting a team step and lives in your CONTRIBUTIONS.md file.

Team members work to understand these expectations, add their feedback, and finally commit to them. In exchange, team leads commit to providing their team members with opportunities to obtain skills, responsibility, and recognition for their work.