Collaboration, Communication and Cooperation – these are the 3-C’s of Connection.
Mastering connection within today’s integrated teams does not just happen – but it is necessary for high performance and success. Collaboration plays a key role in connection and is also a necessary element in integrated teams. Collaboration means bringing the skills of improved communication and cooperative attitudes together in integrated teams to improve safety and quality outcomes, and ultimately performance, of your organization.
So, what is an integrated team? An integrated team is a group composed of people with different areas of expertise and knowledge. Members of this team must function in harmony, contributing their respective technical and behaviour skills toward the completion of a task or the accomplishment of a goal. This team follows what the professional literature calls an integrated systems approach whereby the work is interconnected and the members are interdependent, …so low performance in one segment of the system does not have disastrous effects on the performance of the entire system.
We’ve all heard throughout our lives the importance and value of teamwork. Even as children, on sports teams and in school, we have consistently been influenced by the concept of teamwork. So how do we take these long held beliefs that teamwork is more effective in driving performance and apply it to the workplace? Is it really possible to bring teamwork to an environment of integrated teams where our role and the role of others are viewed as being independent of the goals, objectives, and mission of the organization? Especially, when we are living in an era where relationships are still evolving from a culture of competition to one of collaboration?
The answer is, we create high-performing integrated teams wherein relationships are fluidly connected through collaboration, by implementing the skill sets of improved communication and a cooperative attitude. Remember that we rarely get the relationships we wish for, but we do get the relationships we work for.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.