The Collaboration Mandate

  Communications Management   Talent Management   Teams   ProjectsAtWork  

In projects, like sports, the most talented players don’t guarantee a great team. The best teams are committed to overall — not individual — success. But this type of collaboration doesn’t happen on its own. It starts, first and foremost, with a project leader committed to transparency.

You know you have a great team in place once you achieve that elusive harmony, that special vibe where everyone is working together in sync. This may sound like a dream team of special talents, but actually, a team composed of MVPs isn't the magic formula for a great project team. Transparency is.

There is, in fact, a direct relationship between increased organizational transparency and positive team performance. In a Business Insider article, employees are shown to be more productive and motivated in relation to more information transparency: “People that know why something's being done perform better than people simply told to carry out a task.”

Disconnect from the organization and the feeling of being undervalued are avoided when each team member clearly sees what their contribution means to the overall completion of a project, and what the project means to the company's overall goals. When people know exactly how valuable their work, they become more accountable for their actions.

It is this feeling of belonging, of being included in the achievement of…

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