Tip of the Week: Improve Your Collaboration by Doing these Three Things

Businesses are rarely successful with just one person doing all the work; rather, businesses are largely successful when a group of people are working together toward the same goal. To promote this type of collaboration within your organization, we suggest you keep the following tips in mind.

Promote a Culture of Collaboration

Sometimes employees can get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the daily grind to the point where they are unaware of what other departments around the office are doing. This can be detrimental to long-term success. The key to promoting collaboration in the workplace is to make sure that it is not only expected, but encouraged as well. Get your team involved in what other departments are doing and find ways to help each other out when possible. This kind of uplifting culture can make all the difference when it comes to fulfillment and engagement.

Hold Regular Staff Meetings

Your staff are more likely to want to collaborate with each other if they see each other regularly, like at regular staff meetings. Of course, we don’t want you to hold meetings just for the sake of having them—it just helps to hold meetings to discuss new goings-on within your business as a whole. Furthermore, it gives your team opportunities to engage with others who they may not see quite so often. When you hold these meetings, make it a point to request feedback and involvement from your staff. The more involved they are in the discussions, the more likely they will be to want to collaborate with others moving forward.

Implement Collaborative Technology Solutions

Now, you might be thinking that it is hard to encourage collaboration when you have a team full of remote or hybrid workers, or you just have too many employees that it is impossible to wrangle everyone together for a pow-wow every so often. Thankfully, software tools make managing meetings and collaboration in general so much easier. Imagine the current state of collaboration without technology; it would be so much harder to fulfill the same tasks without access to video conferencing, instant messaging, file sharing, and so on.

If your business wants to take its collaboration efforts to the next level, Directive can help. We can equip your organization with the tools it needs to succeed long-term, including collaboration software. To learn more, reach out to us at 607.433.2200.