Fierce Tip of the Week: Collaborate Often

This week’s tip is to look at how you can break down communication barriers and instead collaborate often.

At Fierce, we conducted a leadership development study (results featured in our Fierce Whitepaper: Six Key Trends of Employee Engagement), with over 1,400 corporate executives, educators, and individual contributors across multiple industries.

We found that at the heart of employee engagement is effective and frequent communication. Not surprisingly, this type of communication can’t happen if an organization has a non-collaborative mentality.

For example, 98% polled believed a leader’s decision-making process should include input from the people impacted by the decision. However, 40% polled feel leaders and decision makers consistently fail to ask.

Leaders who make decisions in a vacuum and don’t collaborate with their teams set the tone for how employees treat each other. If you’re in a management role, take this week to move away from this old school style of leading and instead engage those around you.

You might be surprised by the domino effect it has and how much easier it makes your job. You can inherently make better decisions.

Don’t sell yourself or your organization short: collaborate more and more. It can be a game changer.