21/09/2026
Everyone in a leadership team says yes to the same agreement. But do they all share the same understanding of what they have agreed to?
At Iltihouse, “the good agreement” is built on four principles: shared understanding, planning, clear allocation of responsibility and a final evaluation.
Recently, one of our clients’ leadership teams put the good agreement to the test with us.
The participants were tasked with producing two cars. 🚗🚗
Every component had to be manufactured by the participants in separate “factories”.
The leaders took turns coordinating the project plans and carrying agreements forward without being able to follow the production process from start to finish.
Whenever leadership changed hands, the incoming leader had to continue based on the previous leader’s instructions and the customer’s specifications for the cars.
If those instructions were unclear, guesswork quickly took over the production process.
When the participants finally assembled the cars, they could see whether the plans and agreements had been understood and passed on correctly.
Before the day ended, the leaders decided what they will do differently after the course, who will take responsibility and how their employees will be able to notice the difference in their daily work.
An agreement is only a good agreement if it can survive. Even when responsibility changes hands and other priorities compete for attention.
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🟥 Dansk version ⬜
Alle i en ledergruppe siger ja til den samme aftale. Men har de alle den samme forståelse af aftalen?
Hos Iltihouse bygger “den gode aftale” på fire principper: fælles forståelse, planlægning, ansvarsfordeling samt en afsluttende evaluering.
For nylig satte en kundes ledergruppe den gode aftale på prøve sammen med os.
Deltagerne fik til opgave at producere to biler. 🚗🚗
Alt materiale til bilerne skulle fremstilles af deltagerne på separate “fabrikshaller”.
Lederne skulle skiftevis koordinere projektplaner og videreføre aftaler uden at være i stand til at følge produktionen fra start til slut.
Hver gang lederansvaret skiftede hænder, skulle den næste leder kunne fortsætte ud fra kollegernes overlevering samt kundens ønsker til bilerne.
Hvis overleveringen var uklar, overtog gætterier hurtigt produktionen.
Da deltagerne til sidst samlede bilerne, skulle det endelig vise sig, om lederne havde overleveret planerne og aftalerne korrekt.
Inden dagen var omme, besluttede lederne, hvad de vil gøre anderledes efter kurset, hvem der tager ansvar, og hvordan medarbejderne vil mærke kursets udbytte i dagligdagen efterfølgende.
En god aftale er først god, når den kan overleve - også når ansvar skifter, og andre opgaver presser på.