8 Ways to Build Collaborative teams

One of the most important aspect of an organization is team work, without it most of the
work in a company will not be done. The main focus of a team is to achieve a common goal,
for a company to be more efficient organizations must focus on building collaborative teams.
A team must be diverse, competent, and highly skilled, there research concluded that two
two teams which are same in every aspect may not have the same performance in a
collaborative environment because the only those teams will collaborate easily which
recognize themselves as alike. This article shows the 8 most effective ways to build
collaborative teams I will dissect these ways one by one,
Investing in signature relationship practices
Executives can help collaborative efforts by investing in projects that promote communication
among teams.
Modelling collaborative behaviour
Companies where senior executives exhibit collaborative behaviour, there teams are inclines
to be more collaborative, so top management should lead by example to make teams more
collaborative and derive most benefits from there teams.
Creating a gift creature
Mentoring & Coaching at some kind of out of work informal basis for network building
Ensuring the requisite skills
HR department arranging training and teaching sessions to build relationships, resolve conflict
communication etc., this helps teams in the organization to collaborate easily.
Supporting a strong sense of community
Creating a strong sense of community will help develop trust level it encourages them to reach
out and share knowledge with each other.
Task or relationship oriented leader
Debate is whether leader should be task or relationship, but I believe that a team leader will
only be successful and effective only if he has both these aspects task and relationship go hand
in hand.
Building on heritage relationship
Relationships are important because strangers cannot develop trust and without a certain level
of trust they wont share knowledge.
Role clarity and task ambiguity.
Without task clarity everything will be ambiguous and no will work because there will be no
responsibility so there no reward or consequence for there work people wont be motivated to
collaborate.

All these step are equally important in building a collaborative teams no one single element
holds the key, team work itself is the key to the success of an organizations thats why top
management should invest in team building and team collaboration.
 Organization Behavior

Instructor: Saima Asad

Submitted by: Syed Sheraz Ahmed Shah

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Topic: Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams