The Tribe Report 9. The Collaboration Issue | Page 10

Even before building that human connection, however, “Ability to work toward a common goal.”
comes the critical step of knowing who’s out there
to serve as potential collaborators. When we asked “Learning about other areas of the business for possible
employees what could make collaboration easier, we career expansion.”
heard suggestions like these:
“Gaining knowledge.”
“Just knowing who to talk to. Who are the experts in
other silos?”
“It could make doing business so much easier and
faster.”
“Ability to find the right people and people’s work.”
“When you are working with other teams (not in
“Provide a system so that you could look up and find silos), the organization tends to be more unified and
out the name of the person you need to talk to.”
deliberate in its strategic direction.”
“Probably the most common barrier is the lack of “As someone who constantly works on process
networking across silos. I do not know which team improvement, I gain a lot by working with people in
or person to reach out to in order to collaborate on a different areas. Those pe