Connecting, delivering on ideas, letting the best insights rise to the top, all of this is what we consider a good approach to healthy business culture. Communication is everything, after all, and you never want to get in the way of healthy ideas being shared at a routine pace.
However, it’s also good to challenge ideas and especially those that seem to rise unquestioned. For example, over the 2010’s the ideas of moving and breaking things, constant collaboration, and disruption were considered paramount. Of course, it’s interesting and sometimes groundbreaking to think outside the box, and so many people found success with this.
But does that mean it works for every business or newcomer to a space? Perhaps not. Perhaps, actually, a solidified and singular direction from one person at the top is all a business needs to be focused and achieve great things. That doesn’t mean you can’t have great success with care if you push for it, but assuming that enforced collaboration is perfect for your enterprise may or may not be taking away valuable resources and time.
In other words, it’s healthy to ask if your corporate approach has been too spurious. Let’s help you evaluate if that’s the case.
How Many New Ideas Does Your Business Need?
Most businesses don’t actually need a constant stream of fresh ideas. The notion that innovation must happen constantly sometimes creates more chaos than progress, as sometimes, implementing one good idea properly often brings more value than juggling twenty half-developed concepts.
Companies can easily mistake activity for achievement when the opposite is true. It’s not easy, but it could be proper, to suggest that many successful businesses thrive by perfecting a handful of fundamentals instead of chasing every possible innovation.
Could Staff Be Better Working With More Autonomy & Space?
While the open office revolution initially touted the benefits of constant collaboration, but it’s easy for that to become somewhat hollow and distracting when people had hard work to get on with. As ever, people struggle to complete focused work while surrounded by conversations, movement, and interruptions. That’s why some firms are returning to office furniture that won’t divide them from others, but give them autonomy over their own space as opposed to solely hot desking each day or avoiding comforts. After all, deep work requires mental space and time without interruption, especially for knowledge workers, that may need tranquil and helpful conditions to develop a more capable outcome.
Is Enforced Socialization At Your Firm Healthy?
Mandatory fun rarely feels fun, probably because it is mandatory. It’s no secret that corporate retreats, team-building exercises, and forced after-work gatherings can easily cause us stress instead of connection. If you can, make sure you allow people at your firm to develop real relationships that come on naturally through shared work and genuine interest. For instance, the accounting team might bond deeply while solving a complex problem together, or two colleagues from different departments might connect over lunch without any corporate mandate to network. This is how teams become more connected, not through enforced games.
With this advice, you’ll be sure to manage constant collaboration in the best way.
