In today’s disruptive economy, it’s more important than ever to create and innovate. Fortune favours the brave. Start-ups can quickly become the next big global corporation.
[1] ‘Disruptive forces in the industrial sectors’ McKinsey&Company, March 2018, https://mck.co/2MrFyIA
Strong communication between team members drives the most successful teams and these teams determine how they want to communicate up front.
Make work modular, with tangible deliverables replacing arbitrary office hours. Teams begin to align more around shared goals and delivering desired results. Keep everyone marching in the same direction.
Diverse teams have a mix of different types of characters, each with their own strengths and preferences. Thinking ‘Outside the box’ can sometimes literally mean working outside the walls of an organization. Within this diversity, there is a still individual accountability and shared expectations that everyone will contribute equally.
Agile teams have regular rapid-fire meetings. Access to collaboration tools is critical and enables teams to quickly engage, ideate and share.
A significant portion of Millennials expect to work from home and teleconference regularly. That work- life balance concept? They take it very seriously. Important to know, considering they’re now the majority of the workforce.
would take a pay cut of at least 3% to work for a company that offers flexible office hours [2]
place flexibility as a top priority while selecting workplaces [3]
would rather work from home 2-3 days per week than receive a 10% higher salary [4]
From everywhere, across assorted connected devices, and taking multi-generational workstyles into consideration, collaboration is absolutely essential. Yet when some companies try to bring their teams together, things can get complicated.
A recent Deloitte Insights study found nearly 80% of executives rated employee experience very important (42%) or somewhat important (38%) but only 22% reported their companies were excellent at building a differentiated employee experience.
Shifting to a more agile workforce is building momentum among employers of all sizes to better meet the need for on-demand, seasonal or temporary labour. Technology is impacting where we work, enabling us to work from any location.
[2] CNBC: The new generation would take a pay cut for these job perks. May 2017.
[3] The Future of Work Community, Future of Work, Make the Future Work for You, Oct. 6, 2015.
[4] Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace, CBRE Genesis, Oct. 2014
That means business leaders need to place a premium on creating opportunities to share concepts and opinions, to brainstorm, envision and dream, no matter how small or radical those dreams might seem. By creating the right environment, you get a stream of ideas that might turn out to be the next Uber or Airbnb.
While today’s technology is designed to keep us connected 24/7, it can actually place people and information in silos.
In a world of BYO tech, app and device incompatibility can throw a wrench into communication, and the snags get compounded when trying to integrate them.
As a result, instead of building stronger collaboration across teams, potentially valuable apps and services can create more complexity.
Work-from-anywhere innovators need a solution that starts with people, not technology. A solution focused on what it really takes to bring teams together in this new world of work. Technology designed to get technology out of the way. That integrates no matter what tools we use. That lets us connect, act and interact like the real people we are.
of employee time is spent in meetings [4]
of executives rated effective team communication and collaboration as key drivers of business success [5]
[4] “$37 billion per year in unnecessary meetings, what is your share?” MeetingKing, Oct. 21, 2013. http://meetingking.com/37-billion-per-year-unnecessary-meetings-share/
[5] Kim Austin, “Attention Leaders: Today’s Teams Need New Tools,” Cisco blog, Feb. 6, 2017. http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/todays-teams-need-new-tools