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Performance-Boosting Team Charter Template

A team charter that is more than just a reference document.

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Scott Wagers
Apr 10, 2025
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What Makes This Charter Different

Traditional team charters focus on meeting schedules and communication preferences. This Performance-Boosting Team Charter takes a fundamentally different approach.

Based on research into high-performing teams and the psychology of project success, this charter is designed to:

  1. Create early momentum through achievable deliverables that build team confidence

  2. Establish creative tension through pre-mortem analysis that activates problem-solving

  3. Embed responsible innovation principles that guide ethical decision-making

  4. Manufacture team familiarity even among groups that haven't worked together before

The counterintuitive secret to team excellence is simple: to deliver something big, first deliver something small. This charter operationalizes that principle through a structured framework that transforms how your team approaches ambitious projects.

Complete this charter collaboratively as a team. The process itself serves as your first small win—creating shared understanding and establishing patterns of productive collaboration that will serve you throughout your project.

This Performance-Boosting Team Charter template is available exclusively to paid subscribers. To access additional resources for embedding responsible innovation principles in your team's work, consider upgrading your subscription.

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