PROJECT TEAM CHARTER

Introduction

Team “Ground” Rules/Charter/Norms/Culture-Written/Unwritten

•Helps eliminate conflicts or problems

•Team effort in creating the ground rules. Consensus Building. They are likely to follow them.

•Ground rules are most important for virtual/Remote teams or cross-functional teams

•Ground Rules should not be frivolous or too stringent

•Establish ground rules that bothers on the ff;

• •Communication
• •Conflict Resolution
• •Difficulties/Challenges
• •Meetings
• •Attendance
• •Authorization
• •Emergency Situations
• •Changes to team members
• Leave of absence
• Decision Making
• Etc

•What if the ground rules conflicts with the overall project parent organization’s HR policies and procedures?

•Request for a waiver from the project parent organisation’s HR policies and procedures

How to handle ground rule breakers  

•First time

• •Be Apathetic- Gain an understanding of why the ground rule is always broken by the team member and see how well you can help alleviate the problem

•Second Time 

• •Try and explain to the team the importance of his role and how his behavior is affecting the team performance

•Habitual

• •Issue a warning to the team member or have a difficult conversation with the team member about his behaviour

•Lastly you report to HR to take over

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