Team Collaboration In An Organization

Meaning of collaboration, as can be seen on wikipedia,

Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals

To achieve a goal, whether it's stratagical, financial, social or personal, we need to work together and in synch. Collaboration is from my perspective is "Many Minds Thinking In Same Direction". Whenever I've chance to talk about collaboration, I generally give one simple example. The difference between simple light source and lesser rays. Many sources of simple rays combine together to make lesser rays and everybody knows the power of it. In similar ways we as an entity of organization can achieve impossible looking goals with combined power and hard work.

How you can achieve collaboration in an organization? The question seems very simple but has tough implementation. I believe, collaboration starts from the leadership. As a leader of an organization, one has to think clearly of goals organization wants to achieve. Either they are short-term goals or long-term goals.

The first and foremost goal of any organisation to achieve is customer satisfaction. To achieve customer satisfaction, we need to provide services or products which is above par to the customer requirements and affordable. This can be done only by employees of organization as they are the one who are working on the product or service and to do that collaboration is the key. Communication is the way to bring the people together. Events, quizs, Q&A sessions with employees are effective ways to start the collaboration.

There is also another dimension to this collaboration and that's personal. Personal growth is as much important as organizational growth because organization is formed by personnels. To achieve personnel growth leaders should give enough breathing space to the employees. Also appreciate whenever possible to any employee who has shown excellent talent. Even monetory appreciation is also advisable.

These small steps can lead us towards larger goals of organization as well as personnels. Collaboration is the key to all these and should always be in improvising mode.