Team Charter

Objective: State the purpose of the group in 25 words or less (brief, energizing). 

• To ensure that the internal training and communication groups have the tools and support they need to perform their work effectively and on time.
  
  

Roles: What are the duties needed to get the work done? Who will take notes? Who will keep meetings on track/time? Who is responsible for tracking actions?

• PM will take notes

• PM for now will be responsible for tracking actions

• Everyone is responsible for keeping meetings on track and on time
  
  

What are our expectations for working together? Create a list of statements that the team agrees to uphold. For example, ask yourself: How do we make this group a safe space for transparent discussion (knowing that it might become contentious, and avoid back-channeling)? What are our ground rules for meetings? How do we ensure everyone is engaged? How do we ensure everyone has a voice? How will we resolve disagreements?

• Remain accountable to the work assigned

• Maintain transparency about progress and/or pitfalls with assigned work

• Continued awareness that there is no such thing as a “perfect” product

• Balance the workload among team members whether it is by task or degree of engagement. Individuals must be accountable for completing their own work and asking for assistance as needed.

• Establish guidelines for respectful dialogue as needed and consistently adhere to the SILS decision making processes.

• Transparency, awareness, and flexibility to work with personal conflicts/challenges that may impact work during certain times - such as childcare, eldercare, illness, etc. - and continued awareness that this is a longer-term (18 month) project.