Making teamwork work
Why?
Since the pandemic and the introduction of new ways of working, collaboration issues are on the rise.
Poor information sharing, work in silos, too many meetings or rising tensions are often the signs of ineffective collaboration.
What?
When collaboration breaks down, staff are often asked to join training courses on how to collaborate better. The assumption is that being a good team player is an individual skill.
But what if the problem lied elsewhere? Our insight is that leadership and company culture are the main drivers of poor or successful collaboration.
How?
Our 4D process starts by identifying why teams should collaborate in the first place.
Here we look below the surface to determine the cost of non-collaboration in the form of delayed projects, demotivation, dupplication of efforts etc.
Once there’s a clear vision and rationale for collaboration, we can look at how to improve things.
Who?
A lack of collaboration is a structural problem so it’s management and leaders’ responsibility to initiate a solution.
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