Matthew Gonnering, CEO of Widen Enterprises, gives us three tips to take your mission from mere words to real action. They highlight a couple of points that are quite complementary to my own ideas.
His first tip is to adjust the environment for collaboration. The physical space you work in can stop you from working together. One obvious example is the archetype of a director’s office. If the barrier to enter is high, don’t look any further why your co-workers aren’t coming to you.
Second, you should allow people to fail better. Talk about failure openly so that everybody accepts it as normal. This is an interesting side to showing people’s work that I have overlooked. You can blame that on me being Belgian, a country where failure in employees and entrepreneurs is still taboo.
Finally, share your knowledge, internally as well as externally. By opening the information you already have, you open yourself to new information as well. To manage your information, I recently found a couple of tools that I’ll be reviewing in the near future.