10 Signs that Your Organization Could Use a Collaboration Tune Up
Many organizations lose productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction due to poor collaboration among teams, units, and employees. It can stifle decision making when their is a belief that everyone has a right to have input and they have to agree. When trust is low, collaboration isn’t able to penetrate the silos and the belief systems leading to discontent and frustration.
Teams don’t form naturally. Add to this that many teams today don’t work out of the same building let alone the same state. Our hierarchical organisation structures define functional boundaries and our comfort zones. We become protective of our turf. All these things work against effective cross functional collaboration.
To find out whether your organization might be suffering from the consequences of poor collaboration, take this simple assessment.
Circle any of the following statements that seem even a little bit true….
- There is a general sense that it is hard to get things done in your organization.
- Decisions are frequently delayed by the friction of working across units or silos.
- Projects are frequently over budget due to the friction of working across units or silos.
- Projects frequently don’t achieve their desired level of quality due to the friction of working across units or silos.
- Products or services sometimes do not go out with the desired level of quality, and this may be due to the way that teams or different units work together (or don’t).
- Managers and employees seem to lack the skills required to collaborate effectively.
- When a project misses a milestone, people point the finger at other teams or units.
- There is resentment or a dysfunctional working relationship among two or more business units/teams in your organization.
- There is resentment or a dysfunctional working relationship among two or more high-level executives in your organization, and this dysfunction ripples through the organization.
- Employees spend too much of their time on unproductive activities related to coping with the stress and hassle of pushing things forward, instead of the productive activities of creating things, making things, selling things, and serving customers.
If you circled even one of the above statements, we should have a 30 minute phone conversation. Remember: You get what you tolerate. Why tolerate the kind of hassles related to poor collaboration? Believe Achieve Coaching & Consulting might be able to help. Contact us today at success@nullbelieveachievecoach.com.au.
