TEAM CHARTER FORM

0.    Cover page

Add a cover page including:

• A team name
• Name of all team members
• The date and year

1.    Team members

Who is on the team? What is their cultural background? What can each member individually bring to the team (area of expertise): e.g., role, personal core value, skills, personal slogan, character trait?

Ask yourself: Which of my strengths can I contribute to achieve team success?

2.    Role designation

The responsibilities for this project are shared by all team members. Consequently, it is useful to divide the main roles amongst the team. Think about the roles each team member will take up (column 2), based on existing expertise (see part 1).

3.    Critical success factors

What could prevent the team from working together fruitfully and reaching their goal? What individual circumstances of team members should you consider e.g. campus student vs. commuter student, working student, medical issues? List 4-6 possible challenges (column 1).

In addition to these, there may also be obstacles linked to the assignment e.g. low response to surveys.

State what the team will do in a practical way to avoid/overcome these challenges (column 2).

4.    Expected norms

What do team members expect from each other to be successful as a team? This is an important part, as it could be regarded as a recipe for success. Important elements are listed below, but you could add more. Use the box in the bottom for your answers.

• Communication

Which platform will you use for your online meetings? TEAMS

How will you contact each other and stay in touch? Whatsapp

How often will you communicate? Every day when the experience starts

Below you will determine the dates for your online meetings already.

Meeting Wednesday 4/05 at (Belgian: 05:00 PM) and (Chile: 11:00 AM)

• Decision making and problem solving

What happens if a deadline is not met? More communication, speaking with everyone

What do you expect from each other in terms of punctuality? Be on time

How will you take decisions? How will you come to an agreement if there is no consensus? Majority if above of 70%, if not we have to give more arguments and discuss more.

• Respect for team members and their cultural values

What are values the team finds important?

Be respectful, listen to the opinion of the other member, don’t be aggressive, try to give argument, if it’s not respected, we will apply big sanction.

• Team atmosphere

How will you create a pleasant atmosphere in the team? Choosing one person per call who talk about a story or a joke. We cannot choose the same student 2 times

How will you celebrate success? A call after the international week

What generates energy in the group? What gets everybody running and going for the best results?

• Quality of work

How will you ensure that each part is checked for quality by at least two group members? How will you create a coherent whole rather than a patchwork of different styles?  We can create an agreement between us for what style we are going to use and not create inconsistency. And triying to work in pairs to minimise those problems

How will you check the language?  Using web correctors

• Goal

What is the goal the team wants to reach? When are all the team efforts successful?

5.    Anti-plagiarism charter

6.    Commitment

All team members declare their agreement with the team charter and their commitment to comply with it.

I declare that I will keep the content of this team charter confidential and will not share this document with people other than the team members and the teacher.