Do you have teams that operate in silos? Do they work effectively within their own teams but put up fences or hurdles when interfacing with other teams? Is this impacting your ability to do your job, slowing your companies progress down for meeting your goals, or just causing morale to be low?

Today I will share tips on laying the ground work for solving the problem of siloed teams. This important first step gets the teams talking with the help of a third party about how they will work through fixing this problem. Getting all the parties involved acknowledging there’s a problem is the first step.

Teams that operate in #silos reduce the ability of a company to meet their goals. They impact the moral and attitudes at the company. This is a serious problem often resulting from years of unresolved issues and important conversations that never occurred.

Companies that are on a #digitaltransformation journey are facing this issue with their IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) divisions. These teams have historically worked in their own worlds, but now are seeing the need for their people, systems, and networks to communication and integrate. An #itotconvergence is important to accelerate collaboration, planning, and execution for these divisions so their companies can meet their goals.

This isn’t just an issue with IT and OT divisions, companies face this problem with other divisions and teams that put up silos which makes progress on projects and goals challenging.

4 steps for laying the ground work to knock down the silos.

1. Leverage top down support from company leadership.

2. Build upon your core values and culture.

3. Set the ground rules.

4. Consider using a neutral facilitator.

In summary, the important first steps of the problem solving process to knock down silos between teams is to lay the proper groundwork. Knocking down silos that have been built up over years will be a complicated and potentially long process. Getting the right people engaged, aligning on the values upon which to base the process, and setting the ground rules for engagement will result in better and faster outcomes.

To see more details behind the 4 steps highlighted here, checkout my new Substack page located at CollaborateBetter (dot) substack (dot) com.

On Feb 15, I will post about the types of Core Values that are important in the problem solving process to knock down team silos.

I write about building high performing teams that benefit both team member growth and organizational results. Some of my sub-topics include #projectmanagement, #changemanagement, #facilitation, #agility and #digitaltransformation

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