ENGL 210 Team Charter

Team Members: Farah Saba (Team Manager), Mohamed Bakri, Siddhant Rao, Marilyn Bou Jauode, Mohamed
Elrayeh

Date Submitted: 11 February 2024

Broad Team Goals:

- Be open-minded to new ideas to allow diverse thoughts from different people with various points of view of
life.
- Have open and clear communication with each other to come to effective and proper decisions as a team.
- Reflect on experiences and challenges to constantly find ways to improve our collaborative skills for the
future.
- Creating a positive work environment where we give constructive criticism rather than bringing people down
to encourage team members to engage and share their ideas.

Measurable Team Goals:

- Submit all assignments on time.

- Meet three times a week, Tuesday and Thursday - 14:20 to 15:20, Saturday - 16:00 to 18:00.
- Improve the quality of presentations by minimizing the use of text.
- Update the team schedule every week.
- Meet or exceed the evaluation criteria of all assignments.

Communication:

- Before the internal deadline for assignments outlined in the schedule, there is a maximum of 6 hours to
respond to messages.
- On the day of the internal deadline, the time is limited to a maximum of 2 hours to respond to messages.
- If a member has personal commitments that would prevent them from responding during a particular time,
they must communicate when and if they will be able to complete their assigned tasks.

Personal Goals:

Farah Saba:
- Improve writing skills (be more precise with the idea I want to get across and avoid grammar
mistakes)
- Expand vocabulary (broaden my vocabulary to not restrain myself with specific words by reading,
researching synonyms for overused words…)
Marilyn Bou Jaoude:
- Improve my presentation skills and become a more confident public speaker.
- Improve my writing ability while also keeping it focused, concise, and impactful.
- Become more adaptive and take on roles that I once thought would be outside my comfort zone.
Mohamed Bakri:
- Improve my comprehension of and ability to compose technical and professional pieces (Research
papers, posters, etc.)
- Improve my time management skills.
Mohamed Elrayeh:
- Improve my communication in a professional setting.
- Improve my public speaking and presentation skills.
- Improve my time management skills for my professional and personal lives.
Siddhant Rao:
- Improve my public speaking and presentation skills by the end of the semester.
- Improve my ability to use language and tone appropriately based on the audience (mainly at
different levels of professional settings)
- Improve my time management skills when I have multiple commitments.
Individual Commitment:

Farah Saba:
- Submit assignments on time based on what the deadline was decided by the team.
- I can not meet or respond on Fridays because of other commitments
- I can be flexible and take on extra work if it does not conflict with my schedule, especially on Sunday
and Tuesday because I have large breaks during the day, between 9:00 and 13:00
- In general, I can meet in the evening between Sunday and Wednesday if I was notified earlier and I
do not have prior commitments

Marilyn Bou Jaoude:

- Helping team members that find it hard to do their assigned task.
- I am able to work and meet on Mondays and Wednesdays before 1:30pm.
- I am unavailable from 10am to 12pm on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays because of my shifts.
- I can’t work on English for more than 3 hours each day unless my week is less stressful, or I am
forced to do so because the deadline is approaching.

Mohamed Bakri:
- I am unavailable on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays between the hours of 9 AM to 12 PM due to
my scheduled shifts.
- Attending all scheduled team meetings and actively participating in them.
- Completing tasks assigned to me properly and in a timely manner.

Mohamed Elrayeh:
- I will not be available to meet between 12-6 pm on Fridays but I will continue doing my assigned
work.
- I am able to do additional work on Mondays and Wednesdays between 12–2 pm.

Siddhant Rao:
- I am mostly available to do additional work on Monday for most of the day as I only have one class.
- I might not be able to join spontaneous meetings on Fridays but if I am informed in advance I can
work around it.

Other Concerns:

Farah Saba: I am concerned about missing messages the team sends on the group as well as the work for
this course accumulating due to my other commitments during the day taking up too much time.
Marilyn Bou Jaoude: I am concerned about not participating as much as I should because of my
commitment to other tasks and failing to meet deadlines because of it.
Mohamed Bakri: I am concerned about the potential of my other commitments to impact my
contributions to the team.
Mohamed Elrayeh: I am concerned about having work piling up and eventually affecting my performance
in other courses.
Siddhant Rao: I am concerned about my occasional procrastination, so I would appreciate it if we could
set early deadlines for me so that I do not hold the team back.

Conflict Resolution:

Work issue:
1. Bring up points of conflict in the team meetings.
2. The team manager shall moderate the discussion and a vote will be held.
3. If there’s no agreement, the issue will be brought up to the instructor and both parties should present their
arguments and come to a decision.
Personal issue:
1. Bring up the issue to the person and try having an open-minded conversation.
2. If the conversation is not productive, the team manager will be informed, and a meeting with all of the
members involved will be conducted.
3. If there’s no agreement, the issue will be brought up to the instructor and both parties should present their
arguments and come to a decision.

Missed Deadlines

Preventative Measures:
1. Make early internal deadlines so that at least most of the work is completed by then and we wouldn’t have
to miss the actual deadline.
2. If one person doesn’t complete the task on time and he or she fails to communicate with the team regarding
the issue, another person will take over and extra work will be assigned to the other person.

If someone missed the deadline:

1. The manager will communicate with the person individually to offer support and ask about the
circumstances that led to the missed deadline.
2. The manager will contact the person and organize an emergency meeting as soon as possible to assess the
situation.
3. If the team manager was the cause of the delay, the team should communicate with them and try to come
to a conclusion.
4. If all attempts at resolving the situation fail, and a member is responsible for repeat violations of deadlines,
the instructor will be informed about the situation.

Unacceptable Work

1. If a team member’s work does not meet the team standards, the team manager is contacted.
2. The team manager should then talk to the person privately to get an idea of why the work was submitted
the way it was
3. Then, a 24-hour revised deadline for the work and try to fix it based on the criticism presented.
4. If the team member has any issues while working on the assignment with how to do their job properly, they
should let the team manager know so that other team members can assist in achieving the quality of work
required.
5. If the team member is not cooperating the instructor should be notified.