Make Purposeful Collaboration a Priority in 6 Ways

Introduction

Collaboration has become the cornerstone of success for businesses, organisations, and even personal endeavours. However, not all collaborations are created equal. To truly drive progress and innovation, it's essential to make purposeful collaboration a priority. 

So read the post ahead and get insights into shaping workplace collaboration in such a way that it is always purposeful and that too on a priority basis. This improves everyone’s operational efficiency, empathy, and networking skills in the long run. 

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What are the 6 ways to make purposeful collaboration a priority?

1. Identify Common Goals

At the heart of purposeful collaboration lies a shared vision and common objectives. Before embarking on any collaborative effort, it's crucial to ensure that all stakeholders align in terms of goals and outcomes. 

Take the time to clearly define the purpose of collaboration while communicating on a social intranet.

Establish measurable targets using a mobile-enabled PMS and convey the same through an intranet. 

By fostering a collective understanding of the desired outcomes, teams work hard and are in sync often and effectively.

2. Establish Open Communication

Talk to your team members on the private or public streams on the intranet. Clearly communicate your task list for the day. Utilise project and timesheet management to understand each other’s availability and the impact of total billable hours as a team. 

No matter what, keep the open door policy. The HRMS we provide helps you get a dedicated helpdesk on the ESS portal for each department. 

This will streamline the communication flow and ensure departmental heads like HR heads are approachable, even if they are not in the office right now. 

Such strategies help to resolve conflict, clear misunderstandings, and boost interpersonal skills and relations. 

3. Allocate Resources

To make purposeful collaboration a priority, utilise the resources in your organisation or the department that you lead. Ensure that your staff members are punctual, productive, and progressive. Their approach and mindset must align with organisational goals/objectives. 

To do that, leverage the Track My Team, Happiness Meter, Team’s Timesheet, and Project Management modules. uKnowva HRMS offers you all these and more, integrated with its interactive and interconnected intranet. 

When you allocate resources appropriately and on time, teams will do the right thing. They get more outcomes with less effort. Their time will be more valuable. The mindsets of different individuals will align and be on the same page. 

All this and more happens when teams have the opportunity to collaborate, coordinate, and co-create. That is when the social intranet comes into the picture to facilitate this mechanism and process where teams have a unified medium or forum to get things done. 

4. Encourage Diversity and Inclusion

Make sure to include the DEI practices in the way you communicate, coordinate, and collaborate. 

Do not forget to include and encourage everyone required for a project. 

Do not discourage anyone’s opinion, especially if they are new, have limited knowledge and experience, and if their ideas are genuine but raw. 

Instead, encourage people to speak up. Often existing employees either take up too much space in the meetings that new ones do not have the energy to speak and share their ideas or concerns. 

Do not let that bias or favouritism take place. Motivate even the new ones to share their creative ideas and brainstorm together on an interactive intranet by using:

• Polls
• Surveys
• Forums 
• Events
• Posts on newsfeed
• Noticeboards
• Announcements
• Personal and group chats

Let people from dissimilar backgrounds connect on a unified platform. That is the major crux of involving more DEI practices, and ensuring that you are allowing minority groups as well to lead on difficult and challenging projects. 

Other than that, give equal praise, appreciation, and rewards to those who take the initiative and love to lead projects. This will create a positive and progressive work environment in the workplace, even if workers are working online or remotely. 

5. Set Clear Expectations

Set clear, concise, and complete expectations. That is one of the three core principles of communication. 

Employees need this clarity from your end as their manager or employer. They will work smart and hard after knowing for which efforts they will get the encouragement and appraisal they need to excel in their career. 

At the same time, they will coordinate more often with other members when they know you’re expecting that from them. 

So, do not hesitate to lay out the foundation of their workdays with the help of a KRA template on the performance management module. It is easily and anywhere accessible on our HRMS. 

It will also notify your team members to accept the KRAs. This process is more cohesive and considerate. 

6. Evaluate and Adjust

The next crucial step in making collaboration a priority in your organisation is to evaluate the results and adjust the resource allocation accordingly. 

Do with this real-time insights and feedback collected via the ESS portal itself. 

For example, project managers can leave remarks for each member after completion of the project. This initiates a feedback channel in place for team members to understand their weaknesses and expertise more closely to work on it together for better results. 

Similarly, from the reports and dashboard, reporting managers get a holistic view of their team’s performance during a quarter or another period. 

By analysing these charts and graphs, reporting and talent managers can realign/readjust project members, deliverables, and expectations. 

Conclusion

In this blog copy, we read in detail about the six ways to make purposeful collaboration a priority. 

We gathered the fact that organisations must harness the collective talents and insights of their teams for achieving their goals and aspirations. 

That is the most important way of collaborating on the go, especially if they have an interactive social intranet and HRMS enabled in the workplace. 

If you want such an interactive tool to harness the power of collaboration in the age of GenAI, reach out to our implementation experts. 

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FAQs

• How can I ensure effective communication during collaboration?

Effective communication during collaboration can be ensured by establishing clear channels for dialogue, actively listening, and providing regular feedback.

• Why is diversity important in collaborative efforts?

Diversity brings different perspectives, ideas, and experiences to the organisation, leading to innovative solutions and better decision-making at all times.

• How do I handle conflicts within a collaborative team?

Conflicts within a collaborative team can be resolved through open communication, active listening, and a willingness to find mutually beneficial solutions.