We'll help your team come together and commit to crushing their shared goals with pride and joy
Book a callYou should try this chartering because it's like having a loving marriage counsellor for your leadership team!
Rich F. - Director of Product - Change.Org
Our Team Chartering program is built from these individual workshops...
Professional teaming is a discipline that's still in its infancy. Team-centric structures for work are a comparatively recent phenomenon. In 1980, only 20% of work was team-based. By 2010, that number was 80%. (Hollenbeck et al, 2012). This is why we are all still trying to solve 'the collaboration problem' at work.
When we consider the nature of a team, we know there are a lot of things that can go wrong...
A team is a small group of people with complementary skills, who are committed to a shared purpose, goals and work system for which they hold themselves mutually accountable
In order for a team to address these kinds of problems, it needs to be deliberate and thoughtful about the 'why', 'what', 'how', and 'who' of the group. It needs a team charter. With a team charter, the group builds a shared understanding of how they best work together and commits to act accordingly. It includes important details on common purpose, values and roles. Its creation is a key milestone in the team's onward journey, informing their direction and providing guidance when times get tough.
We've put together a highly customizable team chartering program that can meet the needs of (almost) any team. In this series of facilitated workshops, we'll guide you through the essential conversations and exercises needed to build the first iteration of your team's charter. You'll be able to put your team charter into action immediately.
The program will help you to...
Team chartering can take 1-5 days, depending on two main factors...
Once we take these factors into account, most clients find that they need 2-3 days to achieve their desired outcomes.
During our discovery call, we'll seek to understand your goals and we'll make recommendations based on our extensive experience of working with teams. Every team is unique so your proposal will be customized to your needs.
This workshop ran at a good pace without being draining. It moved smartly between each area and left enough time at the end for in-depth discussion. The progression of activities was the best example of start-to-finish design I've ever been involved in.
It was all valuable and useful. We came out with clear actions and takeaways - something I particularly loved.
Anyone doing this chartering with PeopleStorming will learn about themselves and their team and will do so with no fluff or wasted time.
Eric S. - Director of Product - Change.Org
Do this workshop! It will have improve the health and performance of your team. It will surface pertinent tensions, and result in useful discussions and actions. And it's fun!
The facilitation was transformative - with great questions that moved the conversation in useful directions while remaining inclusive, timely and on-topic.
We made progress in becoming a team, and it gave us a useful and substantive set of materials (objectives, vision, mission, working agreement) that we will keep honing and realigning-on, going forward.
Poorna K. - Machine Learning Manager - Upstart
I was really inspired by how much the team individuals were present and willing to work together. They have a better understanding of each other as people.
The exercise around future changes was a great way to get the team to think outside of their own individual work and to think about tackling a larger effort as a program.
I'd recommend PeopleStorming because they balanced an approach of fun and practical exercises that were able to keep everyone engaged and understanding the value of what they were doing.
Molly S. - Product Management Lead - Indeed
The chartering has a good structure and you manage to get all the participants to engage. For me, the work around rituals and artifacts plus the structures and accountabilities exercise was the most impactful.
Sometimes facilitators end up doing all the work but you managed to actually step back and facilitate - very skillful. The workshop was a fun way to reflect on personal and organizational processes, strengths and weaknesses whilst building relationships with the team.
Thanassis A. - VP of Engineering - ForAllSecure
Everyone is responsible for creating the conditions where the work gets done; no one can do it on their own.
Robert Poynton
