Last reviewed: 17 January 2022

Workshops

Team charter

Agree your team principles, behaviours and values so that you understand what to expect from each other.

  • The whole team
  • 1 - 2 hours

Advice on team charters

Why have a team charter workshop

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 through this with your team helps 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 is involved

All members of the team and key stakeholders including anyone in the office or working remotely at home.

When to do a team charter workshop

  • When a new team comes together
  • When someone new on your team joins
  • When you need to review it, for example every 3 months

Learn more

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teams

How to Define and Evolve Your Team Principles

How to do a team charter workshop

All of the steps and activities for creating a team charter are in this Miro board. This is so that your team can work together remotely in a shared visual space.

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
  • Activity 1: Team check in
  • Activity 2: Agreeing team principles
  • Activity 3: Agreeing team behaviours
  • Activity 4: Agreeing team values
  • Activity 5: Creating team charter
  • Next steps
Open Miro board

To decide what to work on next go to ways of working workshops.

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