Creating your Collaboration Potential
Building your Collaborative Culture
The audit will have identified the barriers that make cross-functional work feel harder than it should do. Culture design helps you to rethink how colleagues work together to delight customers.
Skill development is important but it comes last. Real step-changes in collaboration happen when you adjust your operating system of how work gets done.
Your meaningful moves
All interventions are chosen to deliver the most important outcomes you care about. Accelerating strategic initiative delivery. Shortening time from idea to execution. Reducing employee turnover. Having quantified the cost of collaboration barriers, we help you estimate the improvement gain of realising your collaboration potential.
Example interventions include:
1. Your Collaboration Code
Defining your unique brand of collaboration for your context by answering the question ‘How do we work together to create the greatest value?’ A document that outlines where and how teams collaborate end-to-end across the company.
2. Decision Architecture
A short intervention focused solely on strengthening your decision-making quality and speed. We work with you to redesign your decision architecture including decision-making role frameworks, light decision-making processes and escalation protocols.
3. Meeting system
Is your series of meeting types and frequency needed to deliver company goals. We’ll help you to rejuvenate your approach by cancelling, repurposing, changing the cadence or shortening meetings.
4. Cross-Team agreements
A key principle of great teamwork is shared expectations of how to work together. Establish team interface standards (gives and gets). Fast Feedback Protocol for critical handoffs.
5. Workspace and Workflow
Workspace is where you work to manage your workflows and communicate effectively so that everyone has the right context for their role. Which platforms are best for your business, and how do you get the best out of them? How can we simplify workflows to minimise handoffs?
6. Recognition System Redesign
Is incorporating reward for collaborative outcomes alongside standard individual achievement incentives. Credit systems that make contribution visible, not just ownership.
7. Team Rituals and Communication patterns
We’ll advise and help you to initiate communication approaches that support effective teamwork that’s appropriate for your company size and structure. The team will recognise what it takes to be role models of choiceful communication that drives clarity and reduces digital overwhelm.
8. Leading healthy collaboration
What effective collaborative behaviour is and isn’t. Enabling Team Leaders to ruthlessly edit Team workloads and reclaim capacity so that colleagues aren’t overcommitted and overscheduled. Creating stopping mechanisms for low-value work.
How does your team perform?
Better collaboration is an incredibly effective way to drive revenue, deliver stronger project success, anticipate customer needs, adapt to challenges and to innovate. It also strengthens engagement. If you want to boost these outcomes, then let’s start a conversation.
