How to avoid working in silos

The larger your organization, the more common it is to find your business falling into silos of separate functional groups. When this happens, effective communication is lost because each department loses sight of how all groups fit together to form the big picture.

Here are three tips to avoid working in silos:

Keep communication open. Holding company-wide meetings to share organizational information happening across all groups helps employees understand their role in the organization and who to go to in another department when they need something.

Lead by example. Bring together your leadership team in regular meetings. This allows  a more detailed update of information and team leaders can discover ways to bring together different departments. Also, invite other team leaders to sit in on your team meetings.

Reward collaboration. Make innovation a part of your company's culture and reward groups working together. Add this recognition to your company-wide meeting agenda.

How does your organization promote collaboration?