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Team charter

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounCommon term

In management & leadership, team charter means: A shared document setting out a team's purpose, responsibilities and agreed ways of working.

In Turkish: ekip çalışma bildirgesi

How it is used

Use for the team's working arrangements; a project charter instead authorises and outlines a project.

Example sentences

  1. Our team charter explains how we resolve disagreements and share urgent work.

    The document records expectations about collaboration rather than a delivery timetable.

  2. The new members helped revise the team charter during their first month.

    Working arrangements can be revisited as the team's membership changes.

Common collocations

  • create a team charter
  • agree a team charter
  • accountabilityThe duty to answer for the result of a task or decision, which includes explaining what happened and accepting the consequences, even if others did the work.
  • team buildingActivities and efforts that help team members trust each other, communicate better and work well together, from workshops to social events.

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