WHY A TEAM CHARTER?

Creating a team charter is a powerful way of bringing a new team together, developing its effectiveness, and onboarding new colleagues.

It provides the opportunity for colleagues to explore and capture key agreements around what it is to be an effective team. You could use, for example, our 5-Element Team Effectiveness Framework to guide and structure these discussions.

And not just new teams.

Useful too for established teams, particularly in the wake of churn and/or changes in the wider business and stakeholders.

And remember – it must be used and reviewed as a living document!  Hold yourselves to account! Refer to it during meetings? Maybe one element each time?

Check out this anonymised charter from a recent client project.