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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