While managers will often lead discussions around setting team norms, they cannot impose them. Saberr’s interactive exercise therefore enables teams to collaboratively agree on a set of desired behaviors, for example meeting norms. With the use of our meeting templates, managers can be supported in reviewing these behaviors in both performance and development check-ins with their teams.

By defining team behaviors within Saberr, team members not only lay the foundations for healthy conflict and psychological safety, but they also establish trust which can lead to better performance outcomes, team satisfaction, and team cohesion. It also encourages them to speak up without fear of negative repercussions.

Teams are only able to perform at the top of their game when every single team member is being steered in the same direction. Saberr’s interactive exercises bring teams together to understand the reason they’re doing what they’re doing, and establish clear goals to guide their progress. As an example, by using Saberr to develop a team purpose statement, teams can better prioritize their workload, and stop wasting time on less important tasks.

By enabling each team to craft a team purpose statement as a collaborative exercise, you encourage them to have a collective identity, which in turn empowers them to do their best work and subsequently drive better performance outcomes as a team. It also acts as a compass to guide decision making, keeping everyone aligned and on track.

Having a shared, documented set of behavioral norms can give team members the confidence to flag behaviors that are outside of these norms, and more importantly ask why it’s happening, without fear of negative consequences. By setting out the governing principles for each team with a team charter, managers can also ensure both clarity and alignment around the boundaries and expectations of their teams.

By ensuring that all teams across the organization have a team purpose statement, you ensure that employees belonging to multiple teams, for example those in project teams, remain present to the requirements of each team they belong to.