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Duffy and John W. Moran  \n(Originally published in Applications and Tools for Creating and Sustaining Healthy Teams, 2011)  \nBefore beginning any type of teaming process, it is important to draft a Team Charter. The sponsor begins the process and then works with the team leader to develop more of the details. A detailed Team Charter provides the initial direction that a team needs to be successful in tackling the task that it has been assigned. Too often teams spend a considerable amount of their valuable resources trying to figure out what they are supposed to do. A well-developed Team Charter helps to move the team to the performing stage since it answers a number of issues that usually arise in the norming and storming phase of a team startup cycle.1 A detailed Team Charter focuses valuable organizational resources on the task that needs to be accomplished.  \nThe Team Charter is the official document from the team sponsor that empowers the team to act. It describes the mission of the team and how it is to be accomplished. The Team Charter is oneof the most under-used and under-valued tools available to sponsors, team leaders, and facilitators for helping a team to succeed. The Team Charter is often overlooked because it is time-consuming to develop. To write a clear, concise, and inclusive Team Charter requires great forethought and effort. Too often the sponsor is in such a rush to start the teaming process that he or she skips the basic step of creating a Team Charter that clearly defines the goals and objectives to be achieved. A sponsor must take the time to create a Team Charter so that the team will clearly understand the why, what, who, when, and where of the process to undertake.  \nWhen a team is started without a formal Team Charter, many meetings are often wasted trying to understand the reason for the meeting, the objective to accomplish, and the timeline necessary to accomplish it. The team spends a considerable amount of time and energy trying to second guess what the sponsor really wanted when he or she formed the team. This lack of information causes a loss of valuable time and talent on the part of the team that could be avoided by designing a clear mission statement prior to the team’s formation.  \nThe Team Charter is an official work contract. This document delineates the strategic goals, boundaries, measures of success, constraints/limits, and available resources. The Team Charter provides a framework for ongoing discussions between the team and its sponsor with regard to direction and progress.  \nThe Team Charter is an iterative process until a baseline acceptance is established. It must be reviewed on a regular basis by the sponsor, team leader, facilitator, and team members to ensure that it is reflective of what the team is doing or will do in the future.  \n1Tuckman B. Developmental sequence in small groups. Psychological Bulletin. 1965; 63:(6): 384–399.  \nTeam Charter Template  \nThe authors have developed a Team Charter Template that is useful in working with a sponsor to guide the work of a proposed team. This template can be modified to fit specific needs.  \nHowever, each section is necessary for providing the direction needed by a team in order to be successful from the beginning.  \nFigure 1 provides more detail about each section of the template and gives details about important information to include, guiding the reader through the process of writing a successful Team Charter. After a few iterations ofthis charter, a sponsor has a written document that describes in detail what the team is to accomplish, as shown in Figure 3.3. This document becomes the official work contract for the team leader and the facilitator to begin the teaming process.  \nFigure 2 describes the value of each of the nineteen sections of the Team Charter and includes an example of a typical statement that may be written for that section. Some sections include tips for implementation.  \nThe Team C","cbCaiqpYSq6vFg2W","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqpYSq6vFg2W","pdf",269157,7,"English","# Before Drafting a Team Charter\n## Purpose and Value\n## Why It Prevents Wasted Effort\n# What the Team Charter Includes\n## Mission, Goals, and Objectives\n## Contract, Boundaries, and Measures of Success\n## Constraints, Resources, and Milestones\n# Iterative Review Process\n## Regular Updates by Key Roles\n# Team Charter Template\n## Template Use and Modification\n## Section-by-Section Detail","[{\"question\":\"Who initiates the Team Charter process and who uses it afterward?\",\"answer\":\"The sponsor begins the teaming process and works with the team leader to develop the charter details. 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