Inspiring Collaboration in the Modern Workplace. Where does collaboration come from? Microsoft Office 365 has produced this helpful webcast to help you understand how you can foster a culture of collaboration in your workplace. If you want collaboration and the advantages it brings, you need to inspire it. Instead, a more sophisticated – and, yet, blindingly obvious – approach is required, which is simply to outline the advantages of high-quality collaborative work. Stories are also inclusive and collaborative. Tap into this idea when it comes to inspiring your team to work collaboratively. Of course, the same is true for building a collaboration culture. Your team also needs a range of digital tools, applications and platforms to help them achieve the objectives they set for themselves. Microsoft Office 365 has even produced this helpful webcast to help you understand how you can foster a culture of collaboration in your workplace.
Where does collaboration come from? It comes from communication, from drive, and from a shared passion to achieve great things as an organization. Microsoft Office 365 has produced this helpful webcast to help you understand how you can foster a culture of collaboration in your workplace.
You can put all the physical and digital strategies you like in place but without an underlying ethos of collaboration, the effect on your workplace will be minimal.
Instead, the right environment must be fostered in order to incubate collaboration in your office and beyond, encompassing your whole organization.
Of course, building collaboratively-focused office spaces and having the tools in place to work together on remote projects is important. But this only provides one-half of the solution. What you are aiming to achieve is a cultural shift; a change in the very fabric of what makes your office tick.
If you want collaboration and the advantages it brings, you need to inspire it. Here’s how…
Make the Advantages Known
The carrot and stick management analogy has long been put to bed and dismissed as overly simplistic. Instead, a more sophisticated – and, yet, blindingly obvious – approach is required, which is simply to outline the advantages of high-quality collaborative work.
The motivations of your team members are too wide-ranging and diverse for a catch-all rewards scheme. For example, individual staff members may have a complex set of driving factors in their heads when they approach work.
This means, what may motivate some of your team may be meaningless to others. Instead, we need to demonstrate how collaboration can be done properly and how we can achieve a serious benefit by adopting this approach at work.
Discuss best practices, examine case studies, open up a dialogue across the whole team, and build the foundations of a collaborative environment.
The Power of Narrative
Stories, by their very nature, are inspiring. Stories are also inclusive and collaborative. While, nowadays, we have the idea of a person reading a book alone, probably a book authored by a single person, this is not where stories came from.
Stories began with the oral tradition; ballads and sagas developed collaboratively over time and delivered to an audience en masse. Tap into this idea when it comes to inspiring your team to work collaboratively.
Share stories and experiences. Provide an open forum for others to share their own. By working in this…
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