Could you quantify at what ratio are the individuals working together in one organization aware of each other’s work? If they are not aware of each other’s work, how could they collaborate and help each other?
To help human collaboration arise at any organization, awareness of each other’s work, challenges, impediments, pain points, and struggles need to grow. It would influence the ratio of collaboration happening within one organization.
The prime directive:
There is no blame to any person or role, only factual causes that generate factual effects.
“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.” –Norm Kerth, Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review.
The 5 Whys:
A root cause analysis technique, that allows diving deep in any sophisticated problem space to find root causes of an issue, to solve it efficiently from the roots rather than solving it superficially. Solutioning problems, superficially, temporarily, could imply the need to intervene to fix those recurrently. It would make the problem appear as a chronicle, and it might cause a huge drain of energy in any ecosystem. This technic builds a clear cause-effect relation between the different facts that contribute to generating a given phenomenon. During this analysis process, people develop more awareness and understanding about most of the contextual parameters that might influence the occurrence of a given problem.
Ishikawa Diagram:
A visualization that helps to represent the 5 whys analysis. It draws like a surgical strike to identify in depth the root causes of a given problem. This diagram is also known by the “Fishbone Diagram”.
Visual Management:
If we want to address the problems, we must have the courage to look at them with transparency and respect for each other. Effective visual management enables instinctive visual cues to communicate key, succinct and accurate information within a workplace available to those who need to know it.
ART:
What about making a Museum, a gallery of the brainstorms and cause-effect analysis diagrams that explain why some phenomena are happening in the given ecosystem or organization? Putting these Ishikawa diagrams on the walls in one space would make the ISHIKAWA MUSEUM.
The law of the 2 feet:
Once you gave them space, let the people navigate their way around the area, discover more about the current state of work and the museum as they feel, so people explore other people’s reflections and get to expand their interpretations and understandings. It would develop their awareness of each other’s work, challenges, pain points, and struggles. (If you want to keep track of the Ishikawa artefacts done by the different teams in a digital space, it is also great. The foremost thing is to create more awareness among the organization).
If you want to apply this practice, I made up to help some organizations to develop a more collaborative working environment and more agility by removing a few root causes of their organizational limitations, dysfunctions, and obstacles, feel free.
And if you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact me or leave a comment for more explanation. My joy is to help on building a highly collaborative environment that better’s people live and lead them to excel in their work together. I will always be delighted to help.
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