Strategies to Promote Higher Quality Team Collaboration

Rafael Magaña

Senior Director Of Development - Corporate Partnerships, Major Gifts, & Planned Giving

Published Dec 4, 2019

Coming together as a team is an important task to accomplish for a business. This task can also be tedious, especially if it meant bringing unfamiliar employees together. When promoting collaboration within a business, it is necessary that you get all the people onboard, which means working closely with all members of the team. It can be a challenge to get all members on the same page working towards a common goal. However, once you achieve this, you can have a successful foundation for growing your business. Below are several strategies for team collaboration that can benefit your organization.

1. Keep Reminding Your Employees about the Current Mission

You need to give a reason to your employees - besides the paycheck- to get passionate about their work and come every day. If they are passionate about a project, they will invest more effort towards it in order to accomplish the mission of the company. Your employees should be clear about the mission enough to keep it in mind and remain focused about it. When unified under a common mission, employees will find it easier to collaborate with their team members and complete objectives.

2. Distribute the Resources and Knowledge

In many business settings, there are resources and valuable information that can benefit a team when they are shared. Just like a sports team, all of the players must know and understand each lineup or system so the team benefits as a whole. Therefore, sharing important knowledge and information among your management and team will make them feel more encouraged to participate evenly in every project.

3. Highlight the Strength of Each Individual

Not everyone has the confidence to be a leader or speak in public. However, a successful team should thrive when every member brings their own unique talents and skills to the team. During the process of recruiting members, you should have already picked up on the strength and abilities of your employees. In addition, make sure that you build on their skills and highlight them in collaborative projects so they can feel more confident to work with their peers.

4. Encourage Open and Honest Communication

Effective team collaboration depends upon truth and honesty when it comes to communication. When people feel like they can comfortably communicate and contribute in a project, a more collaborative environment is created. Under these circumstances, employees will become more productive in their tasks and likely to participate in collaborative projects. If you are capable of creating a safe environment at the workplace, where team members feel secure and not judged based on their ideas, they will more likely be willing to assist in team projects.

5. Leave the Office Every Now and Then

Leaving the office and meeting your colleagues outside of the work environment creates a more casual atmosphere. These meetings can give each team member more opportunities to learn about each other's personalities and sources of motivation. Outside meetings can also help develop chemistry among team members. Once the team returns to the office, they will find it easier to collaborate with each other on important projects.

In the end, whether you are a thriving business or just starting out, having a collaborative team can be invaluable towards realizing your goals. It is never too late to start laying out the foundation for a collaborative team environment at your business. With these ideas and solutions, you can take the first step towards achieving a more valuable, successful, and inspiring work

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Rafael Magaña helps organizations grow. Helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations. Specializes in donor-centered Philanthropy. Major Gift Officer -Veritus Scholar. Director of Development & Communications at BREATHE California of Los Angeles County. Director of Development at the Emphysema Foundation of America. Enjoys writing about leadership and management in nonprofit organizations. Founder of Latino Professionals and Latina Professionals. Resides in California.

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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own.