Reimagine Your Teams: The Missing Piece in Team Collaboration

There’s a broken record playing in the background of most organizations right now regarding labor shortages , inflation and supply chain disruptions. Messages of doom and gloom for 2022 abound. And the teams in your company might even occasionally feel like they’re being run through some sort of medieval torture device anytime they so much as dream of pushing forward and making progress.

BUT, there’s a major reason so many employees are feeling the struggle right now, and it isn’t necessarily that broken record. It is, perhaps surprisingly, an internal problem. We’ll put it all out on the carpet right here: many organizations understand and implement their teams too narrowly, and they pay for it. At worst, the larger economic contexts we face today exacerbate the issue. At best, they expose it. To us, that spells opportunity for you, opportunity to experience the power of workplace cultural evolution.

Take a step back and consider how most organizations operate in silos. And silos aren’t all bad news. However, when taken to the extreme, they become limiting, if not debilitating to progress. Conventionally, a team is a silo, and a silo is a team—the sales team, the marketing team, the HR team, the executive leadership team and on and on. But the tragedy isn’t the existence of silos; instead, it’s that they often operate in relative isolation, and that isolation is the very core of the problem at hand.?

It creates a scenario where voices that have real value in your organization are being routinely silenced. That’s not only bad for momentum, but it also suggests that leadership doesn’t care about the spectrum of employee perspectives. At the end of the day, this narrow view takes you down the path of miscommunication and an overabundance of redundancies. In other words, it’s a massive time-suck.

But a broader definition of teams, one that dispels with the heavily fortified walls that separate departments, allows you to learn from everyone across your org chart, improve workflow and reignite your employees’ personal investment in your company’s aspirations. To be clear, a team is not just a silo. A team is any group, small or large and no matter the departmental affiliation, that comes together to collaborate or solve problems. Period.

Imagine how much your Marketing Department could learn from Sales and vice versa. Reaching across the aisle requires vulnerability, but the results are well worth it as you’ll be tapping into an unparalleled world of insights cultivated by people with their boots on the ground.?

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