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Improve Collaboration at Your Company With These Leadership Tips


As your company grows, each department may come to feel like a miniature business in itself. This disjointed nature can be to your company's detriment, but it can also be utilized as a formidable strength. Every team in your company is comprised of unique individuals with their own skill sets. When you work to promote collaboration between these teams, every project can benefit from the different abilities and perspectives that other parties can bring to the table. By incorporating a few helpful tips from Sisters United Enterprise into your leadership strategy, you can improve collaboration in your company.


Create Opportunities


Collaboration not only helps with completing projects faster, but it also boosts the overall morale of your company and leads to new innovation. To enjoy these long-term benefits, you should see collaboration not as an answer to a problem but as a priority. Creating opportunities for various teams and individuals to work together, even when it is not strictly necessary, will help your company prosper.


Start by finding overlap zones between different teams. For example, your marketing team and product development team both have unique insights into what might appeal to consumers, so you can create an overlap zone where these two parties can regularly exchange ideas.


Invest in Collaboration Tools


The most important tools for facilitating collaboration are those that improve communication. CRM.org suggests investing in communication software that allows employees to quickly send updates, transfer files, and separate their various projects into channels they can share with teammates.


Keep in mind that some projects might involve sending large PDF files with many images back and forth. This can be difficult to do over email and other communication channels, but compressing the file will make it easier to send. The right PDF compressor tool will reduce the file size without compromising the quality of images, fonts, and other file contents.


Speaking of collaboration, it doesn’t always require complex technology. In fact, walking meetings are a great way to get some fresh air while also providing an opportunity for more productive discussion.


Avoid Micromanaging – Use a Project Management Platform
Managing your small business takes work, but you have to know where to draw the line, especially when it comes finding ways to save you time searching for data. Start by looking into project management software offerings that will allow everyone to stay on task and maximize efficiency without the need for micromanaging. After all, micromanagement is the topic of many workplace complaints and that it can have serious negative effects on motivation and creativity.


Individuals cannot reach their full potential when they feel excessively scrutinized, and it may also affect their likelihood of reaching out to peers with collaborative ideas. If you or any of the other leaders in your company have a habit of being overly involved in an employee's activities, it may be necessary to address this as a problem.
BizLibrary points out that another way to address micromanagement is by reevaluating your employee training programs. When leaders feel that they must constantly oversee every process, it may be because employees have not been properly educated in their roles.


Reorganizing Leadership


The ability of two teams to work together is often a matter of how their specialties overlap, but it is also a matter of how individuals in leadership positions can coordinate with one another. If there is friction during the collaboration process, perhaps the best solution is to give other strong candidates a chance at leading project initiatives.


Neglecting collaboration in your company is a waste of the talent that each individual brings to the workplace. So do what you can to manage effectively, boost each other’s projects, and
create a working environment bolstered by clear, healthy communication. As a leader, you can facilitate these collaborative opportunities.
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Listen up, folks! To live your best life, you must work on being the best you. That means striving for self-mastery and developing a balanced life philosophy that you can live by. And hey, if you need help figuring out where to start, try reading a book. It sounds crazy, but trust me, it's a major stepping stone toward success and happiness.

Now, I'm not saying you gotta become a bookworm overnight. But you gotta admit, reading does have its perks. For one, it helps you expand your mind and get new perspectives on life. Plus, it's a great way to escape reality for a little bit (hello, Robert Langdon marathon).

So if you're feeling a little lost, pick up a book and start reading. Who knows, you might find the answers you've been looking for. And if all else fails, you'll have something to discuss at your next brunch, all-white party, hell, maybe even the strip club.

​Listen up, folks! To live your best life, you must work on being the best you. That means striving for self-mastery and developing a balanced life philosophy that you can live by. And hey, if you need help figuring out where to start, try reading a book. It sounds crazy, but trust me, it's a major stepping stone toward success and happiness.

Now, I'm not saying you gotta become a bookworm overnight. But you gotta admit, reading does have its perks. For one, it helps you expand your mind and get new perspectives on life. Plus, it's a great way to escape reality for a little bit (hello, Robert Langdon marathon).
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So if you're feeling a little lost, pick up a book and start reading. Who knows, you might find the answers you've been looking for. And if all else fails, you'll have something to discuss at your next brunch, all-white party, hell, maybe even the strip club.

Again,  just a shared message via LinkedIn.  

​Federal courts have temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s three different rulemaking actions on COVID-19 vaccine requirements affecting private employers, prompting a growing number of businesses to fill the void with their own vaccination policies to protect workers and customers.
During Wednesday’s virtual meeting of NJBIA’s Human Resources Council, Fox Rothchild labor employment attorney Brian McGinnis shared best practices for COVID-19 workplace vaccination policies and how employers should handle requests for a “reasonable accommodation” from unvaccinated employees who say they cannot get the shot for medical or religious reasons.

“You want to set clear definitions, clear dates of compliance, and clear expectations” in any written COVID-19 policy, McGinnis said. “You also want to make sure your COVID-19 vaccination policy expressly outlines a form of accommodation process. Something as simple as stating the employer will comply with the requirement under applicable law to provide a reasonable accommodation to this policy.”

The policy should require the employee to report his or her vaccination status directly to Human Resources, not their supervisor, to protect the businesses from discrimination lawsuits later, he said. The supervisor should only be looped in about the employee’s vaccination status if Human Resources decides to grant the employee a reasonable accommodation related to the vaccine requirement.

Various state and federal laws require employers to make reasonable accommodation for employees who have a disability, are pregnant or have a sincere religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated. A disability accommodation request, for example, could arise in the context of an employee who is immunocompromised from cancer treatments.

The accommodation might be to require the unvaccinated employee to wear a mask and be tested weekly in the workplace. Remote work might be another reasonable accommodation, but only if the employee’s essential job functions do not require direct interactions with co-workers, clients or customers.

“You are not required to grant an accommodation that would remove a job’s essential functions,” McGinnis said. “The goal of accommodation is to allow people to continue to do these essential functions in a different way that accommodates them.”
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Article Posted Compliments of  NJBIA 

Are you a small business that had to raise wages to be competitive?  

Below is a link for an article that is shared from NJBIA 
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Small Business Continuing to Raise Wages at Record Rate - NJBIA - New Jersey Business & Industry Association