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Defining Team Vision and Values
Every team has a culture, values, and purpose. It doesn’t have to be written in order to exist. However, writing them down creates an advantage to such teams as it aligns everyone on the expected behaviors and the purpose of that team. It guides them through difficult decisions and motivates them to achieve that vision of themselves.
A company will usually have a vision, mission statement, and also values. However, they might be too broad and disconnected from the actual teams within the company.
I believe that it’s important for every team to define how do they contribute to the company vision and to align on their specific team values.
Going through the exercise of defining the team vision, agreeing on the team values, and actually writing them down forces us to be very aligned and be able to hold each other accountable when what we do doesn’t meet the values of the group.
In this post, I want to explain why I believe that having vision and values are important as well as to share the process of defining values and vision that I’ve facilitated and led with my group (my group, consisting of 4 separated teams).
