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Group Presentations: teams

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What you'll be able to do
  • Start a group project with a written team charter: goal, roles, rules and deadlines.
  • Split the work so every person's part is fair, clear and visible.
  • Build one shared slide deck with several editors, using comments and version history.
  • Turn four separate parts into one story with smooth hand-offs between speakers.
  • Rehearse as a team, with time signals and useful feedback.
  • Handle disagreements early, speak up safely, and manage team Q&A, absences and peer review.
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Start with a team charter

In simple words

Before a football match, the team agrees who plays where and what the plan is. If everyone just runs after the ball, nobody guards the goal. A team charter is your team's plan written down before the game starts.

Before this course: Class Presentations: design and delivery (course 13.17.2). You already know how to storyboard, design accessible slides, use notes and Presenter View, rehearse with a timer and handle questions on your own. Here we go one step deeper: doing all of that as a team.

Key facts
  • A team charter is a short written agreement made at the start of a project. It usually covers: the goal, each person's role, ground rules (how you communicate and decide), deadlines, and what happens if someone falls behind.
  • In a 2009 study (Mathieu and Rapp, Journal of Applied Psychology), 32 teams of business students ran a strategy simulation over time. Teams with better performance strategies did better, and the teams with the best sustained performance had both a high-quality charter and a high-quality strategy.
  • Limits: this was one study with university business students. It supports writing a careful charter together with a clear plan; it does not prove a charter alone guarantees a good mark.
  • A good charter is specific: "Reply in the group chat within 24 hours on school days" is better than "communicate well."
  • Write the charter together, in the first meeting, and have everyone agree to it. Keep it where everyone can see it.
Charter sectionExample
Goal"A 10-minute talk on local water use that scores at least 'proficient' on every rubric row"
RolesCoordinator, design lead, fact-checker, timekeeper (everyone also presents)
Ground rulesReply within 24 hours on school days; decisions by discussion, then vote if stuck
DeadlinesResearch done by Friday; slides drafted by Tuesday; first full rehearsal Thursday
If someone falls behindTalk to them first; then the team asks the teacher for help
Step by step
  1. Hold a first meeting of 20 to 30 minutes with everyone present (in person or on a call).
  2. Read the assignment and rubric together. Write the team goal in one sentence.
  3. Agree on roles. Make sure everyone also has a part to present.
  4. Write three to five ground rules that are specific and checkable.
  5. Put the deadlines on a shared calendar, working backwards from the presentation date.
  6. Agree on what happens if someone falls behind.
  7. Everyone reads the charter and says or types "I agree."
  8. Check: every section of the table has an entry, and every person can find the charter.
LESSON 01Start with a team charter
LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
Read the video script
[Host] "Group projects go wrong in the first week, not the last."
[Screen: a one-page team charter] "Write a team charter: goal, roles, ground rules, deadlines, and what happens if someone falls behind."
[Text on screen: Charter + strategy = best results] "In one study of 32 teams, the best long-run results came from teams with a good charter and a good plan."
[Host] "Twenty minutes in the first meeting can save you twenty hours of stress later."
Try it now

Write a one-page team charter for a real or practice group presentation, with all five sections filled in and agreed by every member.

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I'm learning "Group Presentations: teams" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Start with a team charter".

What the lesson teaches:
- A team charter is a short written agreement made at the start of a project. It usually covers: the goal, each person's role, ground rules (how you communicate and decide), deadlines, and what happens if someone falls behind.
- In a 2009 study (Mathieu and Rapp, Journal of Applied Psychology), 32 teams of business students ran a strategy simulation over time. Teams with better performance strategies did better, and the teams with the best sustained performance had both a high-quality charter and a high-quality strategy.
- Limits: this was one study with university business students. It supports writing a careful charter together with a clear plan; it does not prove a charter alone guarantees a good mark.
- A good charter is specific: "Reply in the group chat within 24 hours on school days" is better than "communicate well."
- Write the charter together, in the first meeting, and have everyone agree to it. Keep it where everyone can see it.
- Charter section - Example
- Goal - "A 10-minute talk on local water use that scores at least 'proficient' on every rubric row"

The exercise I'm working on:
Write a one-page team charter for a real or practice group presentation, with all five sections filled in and agreed by every member.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Start with a team charter" from the course "Group Presentations: teams".

Here's what the lesson says:
Before a football match, the team agrees who plays where and what the plan is. If everyone just runs after the ball, nobody guards the goal. A team charter is your team's plan written down before the game starts. Before this course: Class Presentations: design and delivery (course 13.17.2). You already know how to storyboard, design accessible slides, use notes and Presenter View, rehearse with a timer and handle questions on your own. Here we go one step deeper: doing all of that as a team.

The activity:
Write a one-page team charter for a real or practice group presentation, with all five sections filled in and agreed by every member.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
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Sources
  • Mathieu and Rapp (2009), Laying the foundation for successful team performance trajectories: the roles of team charters and performance strategies, Journal of Applied Psychology: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19186898/
My notes
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Split the work fairly and visibly

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03

One deck, many hands

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One story, smooth hand-offs

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05

Rehearse as a team

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06

Disagree well and speak up

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07

Team Q&A, absences and peer review

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. What is a team charter?

  2. In the 2009 study of 32 teams, which teams had the best sustained performance?

  3. What is social loafing?

  4. Why split the work by sections of the story?

  5. Where must a PowerPoint file be saved so a team can co-author it?

  6. What tool lets you restore an earlier version of a shared deck?

  7. What are the three parts of a good hand-off?

  8. What does the timekeeper do?

  9. What is a useful feedback format after a run-through?

  10. What is psychological safety?

  11. What did the 2003 conflict meta-analysis find?

  12. What should every section have in case someone is absent?

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Final exam

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Certificate

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