Projects run on team collaboration. Any gap in collaboration creates chaos, delays & brings projects to a total halt. Collaboration is all about meaningful information exchange in a timely manner, transparency within the team and clarity around the team’s roles and responsibilities
Team collaboration creates a strong relationship between team members. Collaboration creates a well oiled and self-sufficient mechanism in place leading to faster execution. Teams know whom to reach for information, expert guidance and issue resolution.
When collaboration is optimum, the team works as one unit ready to contribute more, step in when needed, and exchange ideas and feedback freely with total commitment to a common goal.
Here is a quick Infographic on challenges and strategies to effective team collaboration.
Businesses thrive when teams are aligned on the project goal and willing to work together. The onus lies on the project managers and leaders to ensure they enable a collaborative culture.
Sharing ideas and providing constructive feedback only works when teams know that the goal is to achieve the project objective, not a personal agenda. And this is possible only in a transparent collaborative environment.
Collaboration has to happen at multi-levels right from task planning, assignments, and clarity around expected outcomes & due dates, work schedule, real time progress status, active issue board, risk identification & mitigation and lastly customer feedback and satisfaction.
Stakeholder communication is also a critical part of team collaboration. You may have some very active stakeholders and some stakeholders who are only concerned with status updates. As a project team it’s your responsibility to ensure all relevant stakeholders are kept well-informed.
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