5 Strategies For Creating A High-Performance Culture

American research and advisory firm Gartner defines a high-performance culture as “a physical or virtual environment designed to make workers as effective as possible in supporting business goals and providing value.”

High-performance cultures see high-trust as an important value to embed and a key behavior that is closely associated with achieving high-trust between employees is collaboration.

Here are a few strategies for creating a collaborative culture within your organization.

1 Hire and fire for fit.

Being transparent about your core framework will help attract the right people to work in the organization. 

2 Provide tools.

Whether your team is distributed or all in one office, you might discover the need for collaboration tools such as document sharing, virtual meetings, and instant messaging. 

3 Empower unofficial project managers.

One of the biggest challenges for the modern knowledge worker is being an unofficial project manager. Most often projects are successful when someone is accountable for the finished product within an environment of trust and communication.

 4 Huddle in.

Every team needs to huddle to pool brainpower or realign on strategy. Whether it’s a 15-minute stand-up, a weekly all-hands, or a quarterly planning session, having regular huddles help maintain the collaborative focus. The trap here can be “death-by-meeting” where the huddling begins to drain productivity. Stand-ups work well to discourage digression while also providing a way to communicate quickly and establish accountability.

5 Peer-to-peer recognition.

Most people are highly motivated by the idea of having the respect of their peers. Providing employees with the opportunity to acknowledge colleagues for their collaboration generates loyalty and camaraderie among team members. This can be as simple as a little note on someone’s desk, to a whiteboard in the central hub of the office for public “shout outs.”

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