Connecting With Your Team: Monday Blog Post Round-Up
Posted by Dana Larson on June 21, 2010
With as much attention as business team collaboration is getting, it’s surprising that not as much attention is given to the idea of connecting within the business team. In order to collaborate effectively, team members - from internal coworkers to external customers and vendors - need to be connected to open the doors for communication and future collaboration.
Because keeping your business team connected is the first step toward successful business collaboration, here are a few recent posts and articles identifying the benefit of connecting with your teammates.
The Importance of Connecting with Colleagues - This fantastic article discusses the effect that our connections have on our personal and professional success. By identifying and easily modeling your behavior to fit the group or individual with whom you are speaking, you are considered a “high self-monitor” and your behavior is perceived as openness to draw people in to connect to you. When we “click” or connect with someone in a positive manner, it can skyrocket our success.
Enterprise 2.0: Social Scorecard and Social Media Karma - Facilitating online and business connections can be as easy as offering an incentive to making those connections. Discussing how sites like Foursquare offer badges for checking in at places, this type of incentive program and karma gathering can be translated to the business world, by rewarding those who have the most connections.
Collaboration Concepts for Home Business Entrepreneurs - This post refers to the idea of networking, and how networking can enable effective collaboration. When the connections you build in your personal and professional life are strong, the collaboration that you could enable in those relationships can be the most beneficial collaborative experiences.
Team Collaboration Success Stories: Collaborative Intelligence Pays Off - Reviewing the “how” behind team collaboration success stories, this post ends with tips for enabling effective collaboration. The majority of the tips revolve around connecting your business team effectively.
When your team is better connected, you’ll find increased collaboration ease, improved communication skills and more quality work produced. Don’t overlook the effects of strong connections in your business, because you could be missing out on a lot of business benefits.
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