Poor collaboration at work can cause many negative side effects like a lack of productivity, difficulty communicating, and the inability to move forward as a business and as a team. Over time, this will cause your business to fail.

Do you feel that your business has poor collaboration? Are you worried about failing?

Then you have come to the right place! With these tips to improve collaboration, you’ll notice a huge improvement in team communication and collaboration. It will lead to more productivity and better overall outcomes for your business.

Ready to learn more? Keep reading!

Stop With the “Independent” Mindset

The United Kingdom is a largely independent country, meaning that we grow up in our homes, move away to go to university, start our jobs, and then start our own families. However, in other countries, many prioritise family and returning to the family to collaborate and be together at all times. 

While there is no “right answer” to which mindset is better, when it comes to the types of blockers to collaboration, having too much of an independent mindset is a large culprit.

Personal work is important, but teamwork is just as important for your company goals.

Create Company Goals

While it is important to have individual goals and reach to achieve thosecompany goals are also important. And what is more important than just having them is communicating them with the rest of the company.

For instance, if you have a goal of creating £500,000 in revenue by the end of 2022, you need to have that communicated through one of your regular team meetings. You can break this down by month and role, as well as put more team meetings on the calendar to reach for this goal.

Once more people are on board with the goal, it will be easier to achieve together.

Allow Time for Questions

When you host regular team meetings, you should never end “on time.” You need to build in time for answers to questions.

If someone has a question about how to do something better, this could lead to more collaboration in the workplace. It would also lead to better communication if workers are allowed to ask questions. Without it, poor communication can lead to a decline in productivity and workflow.

Without that question being asked, the company could also continue moving forward without the teamwork that could have improved systems. 

Not allowing questions or not leaving time for questions is one of the biggest blockers to collaboration.

Create Collaborative Opportunities

While wishing for collaboration and talking about collaboration are a start, you need to begin creating more collaborative opportunities in the office.

What does this look like? There are many different ways this could look:

  1. Creating more teams on different projects
  2. Adding a mentorship program to improve training opportunities
  3. Breaking down more goals into projects for multiple people to work on
  4. Make part of the office space open to invite more collaboration
  5. Put a brainstorming meeting on the agenda each month, and every month switch up who is on which brainstorming team so different minds can work together

Improves morale

By creating these opportunities, you are allowing your company to advance with more collaboration. 

Try Out Team Building

While this idea may seem cheesy or not necessary, team building can actually drastically change how team members work together.

few of these benefits include:

  • Increased productivity in the workplace
  • Improves morale
  • Boosts confidence
  • Better communication
  • Creates more leaders
  • Connects remote and hybrid teams together


With so many benefits, it can be hard to ignore trying it at least once to see what team building does for your workplace.

As team members grow closer to one another, there are fewer instances of miscommunication. Team members are able to talk through problems to solve them as well as collaborate on issues before they become larger problems.

Assign Mentors to New Hires

When people start a new job, they can easily feel like they are alone. Everyone already has their friends and spaces, so they may wonder where they fit in.

This is where assigning mentors to new hires can help this become less of a thing. Every time you hire someone and bring them on to your team, you should assign someone with more experience to be their buddy. This buddy will walk them through different aspects of the job as well as be the person they can turn to if they need to speak to someone or have any questions.

This teamwork also allows for better communication between all team members to improve the company and keep it moving forward.

Hire Outside Help

There is nothing wrong with hiring outside help to improve your communication and teamwork.

While it may cost money upfront to hire services, these services can improve your collaboration and productivity at the company. This can increase your return on investment.

It is always helpful to ask for help when you need it, or even if you feel that you can survive without it.   

Collaboration at Work: Tips to Improve It

Although our society tends to favour independent workers, as time moves forward, we are starting to realise the importance of collaboration at work more than ever.

It is crucial to have a team that can communicate with one another, help each other out, and solve problems when issues arise.

If you feel that you need to improve in this area, follow these tips. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us as well to get the support that you need. Whether you need help with networking and communicating, with your cloud services, or something else, we have your back!