Benefits of a Team Charter

The benefits of a team charter:  

• it sets the expectations about how you work together  
  
• it clarifies what to do when things go wrong and how decisions are made  
• it empowers team members to give feedback to each other, challenge working practices and discuss priorities  
• it removes ambiguity around what good looks like, for example, it might look like everyone turning up to meetings on time, prepared, fully present and engaged  
• it clears away unhealthy behaviours and misunderstandings  
• it allows team members to ask for what they need and to gain total clarity over the expectations of the team 
• it works as a reference point for your team so you can go back to what you aimed to achieve as part of your team charter. 
• when things go wrong, you can go back to the team charter and reflect on what you agreed as team and check behaviours are aligned. This written format of a team charter helps make behaviour management easier.  
• you can go through your team charter with new members of the team so they can gain insight into how your team operates and what to expect.