Tip of the Week: The Right Way to Promote Collaboration

Collaboration is central to the success of any company’s sustained efforts, and technology plays an important role in making this happen. Let’s go over some collaboration best practices your business can implement, as well as how technology can help them be successful in these efforts.

Make Your Expectations Clear

Your team will work most effectively when they know what it is they are responsible for. This means that there should be no questioning what must be done; your expectations should be outlined loud and clear, especially when teams are involved. This can take a lot of stress out of the process and provide a clear roadmap forward.

Equip Your Team with the Right Tools

Technology will play a pivotal role in helping your team meet its expectations. There are countless software solutions out there, including collaboration platforms that can give your team easy ways to collaborate and communicate. You should not only provide these tools, but also ensure your team knows how to effectively use them. This can make the collaboration process that much easier to handle.

Use Various Methods to Collaborate

These tools should have multiple different ways to collaborate built into them, all of which contribute to an accessible and collaborative environment. You might use solutions like instant messaging, video conferencing, and so on to ensure that collaboration can happen without a hitch.

Understand and Appreciate the Hurdles Your Team Will Face

Any adoption process for new policies or technology solutions will have its fair share of hiccups, so you should anticipate them. This will include getting your team on board with the new tools or solutions. Be sure to present the solution as something that will make their lives easier, and also be sure to adopt it and integrate it into your own procedures so that you can lead by example.