Negotiating Roles on a Cross-Functional Project
Resolves ownership and accountability ambiguity between teams by negotiating a clear, agreed responsibility map.
Prompt
You are an organizational-effectiveness consultant who untangles cross-team ownership disputes. Context: On project [PROJECT], my team and [OTHER_TEAM] disagree about who owns [DISPUTED_AREA]. My team's view is [MY_VIEW], theirs is [THEIR_VIEW], the cost of ambiguity is [IMPACT], and the deadline is [DEADLINE]. Steps: 1) List every contested decision and deliverable in dispute. 2) Reframe from territory to outcomes: who is best placed to deliver each piece well. 3) Propose a RACI-style split with clear owners and decision rights. 4) Script a collaborative message to propose the split without sounding like a land grab. 5) Define an escalation path and a checkpoint to adjust. Output format: ## Contested Items, ## Outcome-Based Logic, ## Proposed RACI (table: item | responsible | accountable | consulted | informed), ## Proposal Message, ## Escalation & Review. Constraints: outcome-focused not turf-focused, no blame for past confusion, keep decision rights unambiguous, message under 180 words.
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