Team Charter
Agree your team principles, behaviours and values so that you understand what to expect from each other.
Around 1 to 2 hours
This session is quite long so include a 10 minute break every 45 minutes
Guidance
Why
Your team charter helps your team to understand and agree on:
- principles you will have for working as a team
- behaviours you expect from one another
- values that your team believes in
Talking this through with your team helps you to:
- create an open feedback culture where people feel safe
- understand what people need to work well
- get along as a team
- create a positive space to produce your work
Who:
- All the team
- Facilitator from the team or outside the team. If you’re new to facilitating or want to learn more about facilitating this kind of session see the facilitator guide
When:
- When a new team comes together
- When someone new on your team joins
- When you need to review it, for example every 3 months
Steps for interactive group activity
All of the steps and activities for creating a team charter are in a Miro board. This is so that your team can work together remotely.
The Miro board includes:
- Tips for using Miro
- How to duplicate the template and create your own board
- Facilitator guide
- Goals for the session
- Creating a safe environment
- Activities:
- Team check in
- Agreeing team principles
- Agreeing team behaviours
- Agreeing team values
- Creating team charter
- Next steps
Go back to Ways of Working guidelines homepage to decide what you work on next.