Summary: Running a successful large business is akin to operating a complex machine, where every component must work harmoniously towards a shared goal. You can ensure your team feels valued and motivated by fostering collaboration, enhancing communication, and conveying a clear mission. Discover key strategies for uniting your workforce and driving your company toward success!
A large business is like a machine with many moving parts. For it to run smoothly, its components must work together for a common purpose. A company runs best when employers, managers, and employees can effectively collaborate, communicate, and contribute their talents to its success. Attention to a few aspects of how your team works together can help you ensure that all members feel valued and invested in its purpose.
1. Promote collaboration.
Working with other team members solidifies a sense of membership and can enhance productivity. A high level of interaction within the organization and incentive to support the work of others nurtures a feeling of belonging and value in all involved. Feeling valued for one's work encourages greater productivity, and multiple minds applied to a project or problem can create a crucible for creativity and innovation. [Tweet this!]
2. Facilitate communication.
Beyond collaboration on specific tasks, disparate members of your organization should be able to effectively share information. A study published in Management Communication Quarterly[1] concluded that employees who are well-informed about the organization and feel involved in decision-making tend to be more committed.
3. Convey your company's mission and philosophy.
Tasks do not inspire people; they are inspired by having a purpose. Communicating your company's mission and philosophy to all levels and sectors of your organization creates a sense of common purpose and ideals to which all members can aspire, regardless of their particular roles. For instance, an employee in a hospital may have the responsibility of changing patients' sheets. The primary goal of this task is to uphold a clean and safe environment for ensuring excellent patient care. This perspective is more likely to evoke a sense of pride in one's work and the feeling of being part of something much more meaningful than simply doing laundry.
4. Be responsive to your team members.
It isn't enough to provide a way for employees to communicate information to bosses; employees need to know that they are being heard and that the information they share is appropriately considered in the decision-making process. As such, it is important to have a way to regularly provide feedback to employees about the contributions they are making.
Fostering strong relationships within a large organization presents a unique challenge that applying the right technology can help you meet. Employees, for example, will be empowered by the ability to easily report information pertinent to company decisions, such as productivity, department expenditures, or project details, to their bosses. The proper human resources software can enable employees to access and communicate the information necessary to be involved, committed, and working in concert toward your shared purpose.
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