Be a Chief Catalyst for collaboration? How to?

Collaborative leaders, according to Harvard Business Review, continually seek out a diversity of opinions and ideas among teammates to build strategies and solve problems.

As a result, employees are better engaged, feel trusted, and are more likely to take ownership of their work.

Collaborative leadership, we mean the process of engaging collective intelligence to deliver results across organizational boundaries when conventional techniques of control are nonexistent.

Collaboration is no longer a “nice to do” idea. It is a leadership prerequisite required to gain results and advance in any organization. There are skills any leader can hone to develop into more effective in the organization.

What is expected from a collaborative leader?
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”— Napoleon Hill

All these steps can support a leader to grow into more collaborative and assure progress in his/her endeavor.

• An obvious, compelling purpose for the transformation. As. a leader, are you doing this?
• Adopting open communication styles throughout an organization is fundamental to collaboration. As a leader, are you doing this?
• How can we develop a win-win proposition as a team and build a shared purpose? As a leader, are you doing this?
• Acknowledging that everybody’s experience will be different and allow everyone to contribute to and accept each other’s views. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Invest time for collaboration, it takes time to identify the unknown, be patient and keep discovering the unknown with your team. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Leaders to let their guard down a little and extend a little bit of vulnerability. Acknowledge that their ideas may not be the finest ones. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Successful collaboration involves a cooperative spirit and mutual respect. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Give credit to all the team members when it is deserved. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Identify team impediments and fix those hurdles with the support of team members. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Demonstrate mature emotion regulation in front of all the team members. As a leader are you doing this?
• Check with your various bias, and incorporate diversity in your teamwork. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Be an efficient facilitator and facilitate various collaborative conversations. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Build a working agreement with many parties and ensure team members follow those. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Enable your team members to associate with many teams and team members. Join them or attach them as a bridge. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Ensure that you continue to build a relationship with other departments and teams, covering your team. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Trust is the glue that holds an interactive team collectively. A collaborative leader seeks to build their team members’ trust in themselves and each other. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Look for silos and smash those silos, it will enable the flow of communication across numerous departments. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Help the team to diminish conflict. Good conflict resolution skills, such as empathy, negotiation, and settlement enable teams to minimize team conflicts. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Build transparency in all your transactions. As a leader, are you doing this?
• A belief that collective intelligence is the strongest. A collaborative leader recognizes that the finest ideas and solutions come from an array of sources.
• Walk the talk and inspire others by demonstrating actions, and develop into a role model for others. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Build a community of individuals who learns for each other by sharing many things, including challenges. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Develop a mindset that can strengthen your innovation skills and provide fresh ideas. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Be empathetic and have an enthusiasm to listen to ideas from anybody. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Possess emotional intelligence and have a profound understanding of the emotions and motivations of their members. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Leaders understand under complex domain things emerge, so they can work steadily to reduce ambiguities. As a leader, are you doing this?
• Forbes recently published an article titled “If you want your team to collaborate, self-awareness is a game-changer.”

Know yourself !! To become a collaborative leader, look at the mirror and strengthen the requires skills.