Much of the collaboration that happens in organizations today is inefficient and dysfunctional. Now that organizations are steeped in collaborative dysfunction, how do they course correct? As a leader, clarity should be your North Star metric. Clarity is a precursor to both healthy collaboration and a host of other organizational outcomes.
Establish connectivity
Connectivity involves how your employees are connected through tasks, cross-functional projects, ad-hoc teams, goals, and different technologies across formal and informal channels.
- Mapping out your organization’s connectivity is the first step to understanding how work actually happens and is key to achieving organizational clarity.
Provide visibility
Ensure that your employees understand and are able to track how their work contributes to broader company goals, as well as your company mission
- Technologies that meaningfully assess workload distribution are key for gaining visibility into work output
- This will enable you and your employees to pinpoint when task, project, and goal performance are veering off track
Encourage efficiency
Efficiency is the final driver of clarity.
- It’s no longer about executing the greatest volume of tasks, it’s about doing the right tasks in the best possible way.
- Peak efficiency happens when employees are connected across different tasks, projects, and geographic and functional silos.
- Visibility into how work happens enables you to build workflows and integrations that leverage automation and AI.
