Team Charter: What Do We Stand For?

Values written on a wall mean nothing unless the team actually uses them to make decisions. This charter exercise asks you to name what you stand for as a group — and to mean it. The identity work from Levels 2-3 gave you the self-awareness to know what matters. Now you align it collectively.

Theory

Condense your self-understanding into clear statements. What values and attitudes define you? This discussion strengthens your cultural clarity.

A team charter makes implicit rules visible — it is the moment where the shared understanding you have been building becomes explicit and negotiable. Language constructs team reality, and naming your values together is one of the strongest forms of that construction. The charter should be short enough to remember and honest enough to enforce; three to five principles that the team actually holds itself to are worth more than a wall of aspirational words. Treat it as a living document, revisitable as the team evolves, and let it connect back to the identity you articulated in Activity 26 and the transparency you established in Activity 27.