Answer to Question #187279 in Management for elisa

Question

Working collaboratively takes teamwork to a higher level and can bring enormous benefits to service users and to the organisations involved. Your manager is looking to create a new code of conduct, and you have been asked to create a report to discuss the importance of teamwork and working collaboratively, Consider the following. a) What is collaborative working? b) What strategies would you use? c) What values would guide you? d) What interpersonal skills are required? e) What are the benefits of collaborative working? f) How would you promote equality and diversity in the workplace? g) How are British Values embedded into collaborative working? h) What are the consequences poor collaborative working? 

Answer 1

a) Collaborative working - also known as joint or partnership working - covers a variety of ways that two or more organisations can work together. Options range from informal networks and alliances, through joint delivery of projects to a full merger.

• b) Share the company's mission over and over again.
• Communicate your expectation for collaboration.
• Define and communicate your team's goals.
• Highlight individuals' strengths.
• Promote a community working environment.

c) Efficiency.

• Trust.
• Empathy.
• Positivity.
• Clarity.

d) Trust-building, communication, leadership, creative problem solving, decision-making, and conflict management.

e) 1) Increased creativity, perspective and innovation.

• 2) Teams educate and learn from each other.
• 3) Camaraderie breeds engagement and productivity.
• 4) Well-oiled teams are agile and flexible.
• 5) Improved workplace mental health.
• 6) Teamwork is attractive to top talent.
• 7) Overall project delivery is accelerated.

f) Create a culture of fairness and inclusion.

1. Offer all staff diversity and inclusion training.
2. Identify and prevent unconscious biases.
3. Make sure you're compliant.
4. Be aware of indirect discrimination.
5. Diversity and equality in the recruitment process.

g) Fundamental British Values are not exclusive to being British and are shared by other democratic countries as a way of creating an orderly society, where individual members can feel safe, valued and can contribute for the good of themselves and others.

h) Poor collaboration in the workplace reduces quality, productivity, and profits. For teams to successfully collaborate, data needs to be easily accessed and shared across.