ezTalks: The Best Ways to Encourage Team Collaboration

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How to Encourage Collaboration in A Team There
are many devices and tools that can help you
communicate with people around the globe. Even
perhaps a person is in a remote area, it is still
possible to reach that certain person when s/he
is needed for a meeting or collaboration.
(https//w ww .ezta lks.com) What Is Team
Collaboration?
Team collaboration means that a group of people
in a workplace or not work as one through
sharing and thinking such ideas to accomplish a
certain goal or goals. It is like teamwork in
higher level. As it is, teamwork is typically the
physical joining of people to accomplish a
certain task. However, team collaboration can do
the same even though the people are not
physically together in one place. Therefore, you
need to know how to encourage collaboration on
your team as necessary. How to Encourage
Collaboration in A Team
Today, more and more teams become remote. It is
very important to get the right people to form a
team together to accomplish certain tasks or
goals. The challenge that the majority of workers
face is that they are not trained to do some
collaboration at work. However, everyone belongs
to the team while they work. The current trend
most likely relies on technology. This is a key
factor on how to e ncourage collaboration in a
team. Given below are tips to know how
1. Everyone S houl d Be on the Same Page
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• To be able to successfully collaborate, you must
  not forget the most important thing you and the
  members of your team must be on the same page.
  You must have the same goals to achieve. If every
  other member on your team is distracted because
  they work on their own tasks or projects, you
  will accomplish nothing.
• As a team leader or team member to lead remote
  teams, you all have to sit down together and
  discuss your short-term or long-term set of
  goals, talk among yourselves how you are going to
  achieve these and assign each and everyone who
  gets to work what. This way, you will be able to
  plan effectively and accomplish whatever it is
  that you need to.
• Set Your Expectati ons
• Related to number one, you have to set your
  expectations or goals. The team members must know
  what they need to know and do. They also have to
  do it by themselves as necessary. They should
  learn how much work or amount of hours that they
  should work and is expected of them. They must
  know what or which part of a certain project they
  have to work on, who they can work with, who
  they can count on for resources or support and so
  on.
• On the other hand, as a team leader you must
  connect each team members and your goals to
  create the strategic plan for the good of the
  company. It is essential that individual
  expectations are aligned with the rest of the
  team. You have to establish a program metrics
  aside from timelines so that you can share the
  progress updates and let the people know whether
  or not some things have been accomplished. Also,
  they can focus on the other important aspects of
  a certain project.
• Reporting is very important in a remote team
  collaboration. So, do not forget to update
  everyone on the team like your boss, the
  executives or other team members about the status
  of your own work so that there is a steady
  progress shown for everyone. With this, everyone
  is aware what is going on with your project.
• Everyone S houl d Be Open
• If there is any problem that you might encounter,
  you have to let your team know. If you hold back,
  you might hinder the collaboration between your
  team members. There must be transparency among
  the members of the team. This way, when a problem
  arises, it can be dealt with immediately.

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Conclusion
Team collaboration is not difficult to do
nowadays especially that technology is used.
ezTalks Cloud Meeting can be used as a platform
when you collaborate with the other team members
to achieve your set goals. From https //www.e
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