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Chartering for High Performance

The beginning of an awesome team and their amazing journey ahead

Workshop description

Team Chartering is a crucial and essential exercise in the formation of a high-performing team, focusing on the establishment of trust, alignment, a shared sense of purpose and devising an effective operating model.

Fostering trust enables collaboration, transparency, and mutual respect. Shared vision guides individual efforts toward common objectives, while articulating values establishes norms and desired outcomes. Implementing an effective operating model clarifies roles and responsibilities, ensuring alignment and efficiency within the team.

Through incorporating these elements into a team charter, organizations establish the groundwork for a collaborative and empowered team, adept at overcoming obstacles and attaining shared success.

Who should attend

  • The whole team should attend together including:
  • Anyone responsible for the product, technical, design, and other functional areas of the team
  • Scrum Master or the person responsible for the agility of the team
  • People leader / manager of the team

What you will achieve with your team

  • Understand the elements that transform a collection of people into a high-performing team
  • Get to know each other better and foster trust
  • Determine the team’s vision, mission, and values
  • Recognize how the team contributes to and aligns with the organization’s vision
  • Determine key roles and responsibilities in the team and their respective owners
  • Establish a team operating model and cadence

Workshop details

This workshop is composed of modules and can be tailored to meet the specific requirements of individual teams. AgilityZen will work with you to customize a workshop for your team. The major modules are:

1

Strengthen connections and build trust

Deepen your understanding of one another by sharing experiences and personal anecdotes

2

Align the team with the organization

Capture the missions, visions, and success measures of levels of organization to ensure that we support our organization effectively

3

Explore customer problems and the ideal state

Identify our primary customer personas, their key challenges, and envision the transformative outcome when their issues are resolved

4

Define the team’s vision and/or mission

Determine the team’s core purpose, i.e. our “north star”, and how to advance towards it

5

Define the team’s values

Identify and prioritize the most important values our team shares that guides our behaviors and decisions

6

Conduct Responsibility Mapping

Determine the key roles and responsibilities on the team, the health of each one, and identify their respective owners

7

Understand the dependency landscape

Explore our interdependence with other teams and develop strategies to manage them effectively

8

Establish an operating model and cadence

Set up a regular rhythm for the team and determine the events and tools necessary to ensure consistent and successful progress

What attendees are saying

It is great to know how our work fits into the bigger company picture.

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Workshop Attendee

The operating model is really helpful. We have been all over the place!

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Workshop Attendee

I finally understand our vision and mission.

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How's the day-to-day operation and interaction among your team members? Is there any inefficiency, conflict, or unclear expectation? If you're aiming to elevate an already awesome team to peak performance, this workshop is tailored for that. AgilityZen will work with you to customize it to address the specific needs of your team.

Every team experiences evolution and change; it's a natural part of the process. This workshop equips you with the framework and the tools necessary to navigate this continuous evolution effectively. After the workshop, the team will have a living team charter document and summary poster to use. Through regular revisiting and recalibration of its contents, the team will remain aligned on its journey toward greatness.