5 Tips For Enabling A Collaborative Enterprise Workplace

By Dan Schoenbaum, CEO, Redbooth

Collaboration is one of many buzzwords in today’s enterprise. In fact, it might be the most important one. The ability to create a collaborative enterprise workplace — where team members know their roles, their individual tasks and their deadlines, and can stick to them to deliver a project on time and on budget—isn’t just a skill that a leader does or doesn’t have. Rather, it’s the result of a concerted effort to cultivate one.

Unfortunately, there are lots of distractions and roadblocks along the way — most of which were inherently designed to make communication more “efficient”— that can disrupt this goal. Email is the worst culprit; according to Radicati, employees receive an average of 120 emails a day, several of which are requests for updates from other team members that create a back-and-forth chain of communications. Using spreadsheets to track progress is time-consuming and inefficient, as they very quickly become outdated as team members forget to document their progress or are distracted by other “efficiency-based” tools.

All of this "efficiency" is actually making workplaces very inefficient, thereby creating a negative impact on productivity and profitability. Finding the proper balance between communications and collaboration is key and each should cyclically drive the other. Here are five tips you can share with your IT clients that they can use to enable a collaborative workplace...

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