Collaboration is an important ingredient to the success of any organization. Collaboration is stronger than teamwork and happens not only in the context of team, but also between teams.
Definition: Collaboration is the process of function of how the team and in which individuals will achieve.
What are the benefits of collaboration:
- Amplifies influence
- Leverages strengths
- Empowerment comes through collaboration
- Creates effectiveness
- Is not easy and only works when we honestly embrace shared goals and clearly articulate how we will achieve them
Collaboration among teams encourages people to continually apply their unique talents to group projects—and to become motivated by a collective mission.
Common Purpose + Supportive Structure = Innovation, Agility, Efficiency and Scalability.
[/well]The most important thing for our culture believes that a team can accomplish what no one member could do alone and that a team of teams can accomplish what no one team could accomplish alone. That is the key to collaboration.
Collaboration ques:
- Be cognizant of how your behaviors are being interpreted and received.
- Establish a way or working together that is comfortable for all.
- Acknowledge differences:
- Different ways of solving problems
- Different ways of viewing things
- Focus on the goal. The shared goal serves as the basis of your work and your relationships as a team.
Foundation to collaboration is purpose needs to be tangible and kept vital. Team members must know that they do something important and are going somewhere and it is challenging.
In a team environment and structure, hierarchy cannot work. It will inhibit growth and movement toward purpose. Create an environment of collaboration!
