Better Communication Unless you don’t have a collaboration system for your team, it likely means that your team relies on communication methods like phone systems, text chat or email. While phone and email are essential, they can lead to broken, incomplete or missing information. Instead of important information being available everyone who needs to know it, it’s buried in individual inboxes. A common problem is that one person was told about something, but never shared that with others on the team who need to know. In short, despite all the communication tools, you can have an information gap. However, there are many cloud-based collaboration options available, so information is more widely available to everyone who needs to know. Information is only valuable if it’s available to the right people at the right times, so they can make use of it for your business. Clarity & Efficiency Through better collaboration, your employees can gain clarity in their roles. Clarity helps each person know what they are supposed to do. They know what others are doing — or not doing. Clarity through collaboration frees employees to focus on specific parts of your task, at specific times — without costly overlap or gaps. This will result in things flowing more smoothly and gets the job done right the first time, which means lower costs for the business, and faster turnaround times. Stronger and united work force Collaboration really helps people to come together, in ways they might not have before. It helps the team work together and share their thoughts and opinions. This helps people that might have thought they weren’t as appreciated as before. As it can be difficult sometimes in a larger organisation to give praise where praise is deserved. Keeping track of employees work can be difficult, however, they stand out with collaboration. You can keep up to date knowing exactly what they are doing and when they are doing it. For smaller businesses, it can be a way of team members showing off their strengths when working in a team. When people are given a chance to share their views it not only helps them but shows the other people around them that they can do the same. Confidence is a big part of collaboration, your team members need to feel that they are comfortable in sharing their ideas. Employee Strengths When you encourage your employees to work together on projects, you also get the benefit of each person being able to work on activities that are most suited to their specific strengths. Projects can be divided up more effectively based on skills. When employees are doing work they are suited for or are good at, they will do a better job and in turn will achieve more – for themselves and for the company. This creates improved productivity over the long run and also saves you money on hiring and training new employees. People know people. This is a great way for getting to know not just your team members, but also who and what they know. If one person knows three to four other professionals in different companies or sectors this means you can use these people to gather more contacts. This could be an opportunity to collaborate with other businesses too. Access to Better Workers Through the use of cloud collaboration tools, you widen the potential pool of employees. For instance, there are many tools where you are able to hire more remote workers who you otherwise wouldn’t relocate. Also, employees may be able to work from home a few days a week (something important to those with family obligations). You can attract and retain valuable workers by giving them geographical flexibility. Instead of limiting yourself to just those in your immediate area, you can hire the person who’s best for the job, regardless of their location. And if you’re able to hire the best possible workers, you’re more likely to get more done and be more effective as a business owner.10 KEYS TO ACHIEVE COLLABORATION SUCCESS! #COLLABORATIONHACKS https://t.co/09NZgwANgq #Collaboration #SocBiz #Enterpreneur pic.twitter.com/Blzms20Dxf
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