6 ways to motivate your business team to share

Sharing is an opportunity. Not doing it creates misunderstanding and delays, in addition to negatively affecting the performance in the company. It would sound simple, said this way. The difficulty is in making your team motivated to make sharing a constant method of work. Here are some suggestions on how to motivate the business team to share:

1. Meetings

A report from the American Bain & Company determined that managers spend on average 15% of their time in meetings, that is two days a week for the Top Managers. Meetings in themselves do not need to be demonised but they have to be used correctly so that they can be an important place to share information on the advance of projects or ongoing initiatives. They then must last a short time and they have to be preceded by an agenda.

Who calls them has to solicit participants’ interventions making them perceive the importance of their own contribution.

2. Technology

The team has to be involved in using software like CRM, ERP or other digital platforms that see the sharing of business data and the interaction with the other collaborators. Knowing how to use them represent a wealth of expertise expendable on the labour market.

These tools also convey a precious asset of information, of which the employees are set aside: it must be shared with the colleagues or otherwise it would fail its purpose.

3. Benefits

Business benefits such as smartphones or tablets are used to communicate, literally. Who owns them is happy to have them and is motivated to use them for professional reasons because they know that they are mainly employed for this reason.

4. Presentations

If you assign a task to a member of the team, it has to be so it is him himself, once completed, to illustrate the results; this could happen in front of the inner circle or, on the occasion, of large events, exhibitions and clients meetings.

5. Training

Soft skills are not to be underestimated as well as formative moments aimed to team building and transversal skills enhancement.

Training in these cases allows to refocus the contents of the business mission, stimulate a dialogue and put sharing under a positive light. Consult the training courses catalogue on WiredExperience, for example!

6. Coffee breaks

Coffee breaks are informal moments during which is possible to chat with the members of the team without being invasive or redirecting the conversation towards topics of own exclusive interest; they can be an occasion to find out something more about a collaborator and on his/her private life, to take a cue from in order to define a business welfare tailored on the employees’ needs who, if satisfied, will be able to obtain better outcomes (due to the sharing) rather than an excessive secrecy.