Meet Cindy Elizabeth

How many times have folks in business thought this:

I want to seem like the smartest person on the team with all the knowledge and all the ideas so I am going to keep them to myself. Forget knowledge transfer.

The funny thing about organizations is that they are only as strong as their weakest player. We’ve heard this idea before. “You’re only as strong as your weakest link” or however else one chooses to use this. The days of hoarding information or wanting to seem like the smartest person on the team are over. Everywhere I turn, it has become about collaboration. How are we working as a team – cross-divisionally, cross-functionally and overall as ONE organization versus all these businesses that really operate on their own but under the same name?

My two cents, the more we don’t share best practices, knowledge within our own organizations and outside of our organizations, the further behind we will fall. These aren’t new ideas, but ideas that many businesses struggle with. There will always be the person who wants to be the idea maker and then there will be the person who wants to present the great idea in a team meeting and the person who wants to work behind the scenes and take no credit. So what happens when we combine all of this?

Brain science, right?

One high-performing, dynamic team.

And when we have teams that are working together, towards a common goal and shared success? Well, dang. A team that listens as an ally, challenges each other and can teach and learn from each other? Sounds like a team I’d want to be on.

What do you think?

Tags: collaboration, HR, human resources, teams, teamwork, work teams