But let’s look at some solutions and alternatives to non-collaboration in work teams. That means, what are the best environments to stimulate collaboration ? And what can be done to develop the culture of collaboration ?
First, here are 5 key principles to help you to setup collaboration in your team culture.
1. Define a common mission…
and take care to interdependances between people in order to break the expertise walls built sometimes betweendifferent parts of your company or team.
Make also sure to push common projects and contacts to bring exchanges between groups.
2. Review the team composition.
Take care not to let carreer-oriented, manipulative, competitive personalities impede collaboration by creating distrust or inspiring reproductive behavior in others.
If you are stuck with one of these personalities you cannot get rid of, an alternative would be to create a code of shared values made by the group to attract community leaders.
3. Stimulate regular meetings.
For there is no cooperation without these meetings which build a common stake, a cooperative “us”, the sense of belonging to the organization,
4. Value the team performance.
Lots of companies push the individual performance, but forget to stimulate the collective one.
In order to reinforce the group collaboration, each team chief or formal leader should monitor the team performance and maintain a balance between individual and collective performance.
5. Value the collective talent…
as much as individual talent by adding each individual skills and experience.
Each group or organization or company should follow these principles in order to establish a more collaborative culture and conducive to open discussions, marked by authenticity and desire to move forward together toward a common goal.
Here are some additional solutions to each type of non-collaborative cultures :
from http://blogue.edithluc.com/solutions-a-la-non-collaboration/
