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About

A transparency charter, in essence, serves as a compass that helps guide a company's actions, decisions, and communications. It's a deliberate commitment to openness, clarity, and honesty. Instituting such a charter offers multiple advantages:

• Builds Trust: Fosters genuine relationships with stakeholders.
• Normalises Openness: Encourages a mindset of ‘default to open’, which is powerful for psychological safety.
• Enhances Engagement: Keeps employees motivated and loyal.
• Improves Decision Making: Encourages informed, data-backed choices.
• Boosts Accountability: Puts actions and decisions under responsible scrutiny.
• Minimises Misinformation: Reduces speculation and rumors.

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For more info on leveraging transparency to deliver business outcomes, check out Open Org’s upcoming **cohorts & bootcamps 🏕️,** or join our Community; specifically for progressive People & Talent folks passionately accelerating transparency at work

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Table of contents

Outline

Why transparency

What it means for us

How and when we show

Extra guidance

Transparency at [COMPANY]

This Charter outlines guidance to employees on our approach to transparency as an organisation. It’s important to us to ensure everyone understands, and is aligned to our definition of transparency and what it means to [COMPANY}. This charter outlines ‘why’ transparency is important to us, ‘what’ it means to us, and ‘how’ and ‘when’ we show it, and don’t show it.

Any questions on the below should be directed to [CONTACT]

Why Transparency?

👉 Open Org Guidance:

• Use this space to talk about why transparency is important to you as a business. Perhaps it links to your core values, mission or industry. It could be linked to personal values of your Founders.
• This is a huge opportunity to add a personal touch to this charter, something unique that creates meaning for transparency within your company
• For inspiration you could check out how Gitlab talk about Transparency as one of their core values here although we would urge you to not copy & paste, but instead come up with something unique and meaningful for your company.