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Collaborating across the organization

Collaborating across the organization

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Collaborating across the organization

- Because today's organizations exist in an ever shifting ocean of change, collaboration has become essential for survival and success. As a company's culture shifts, every manager, team leader, supervisor, and department head needs to know what the organization is doing to foster collaboration and to understand the role they play in supporting those strategies. I'll go through five organizational strategies and explain how to support each one. One. Rewarding collaboration. Companies are changing the reward system making collaborative performance part of the employee review process and giving recognition and promotions to people who work effectively across organizational boundaries. As a team leader, you reward collaboration when you let people know how much you value their contribution and when you acknowledge team members who help and support each other. Two. Focusing on innovation. When an organization focuses on collaborative innovation, it uses cross functional teams to capture…

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