Chapter 4: Building a collaborative culture

Building a collaborative culture 

    A collaborative culture is when a work environment where individual and team work together to achieve a common goal. Through communication, trust, respect, and a willingness to work together and share ideas. Employees will feel more comfortable sharing ideas and feedback along with not being afraid to take risks in a collaborative culture. As they believe that their contributions are rather valued making them feel apart of a team that is actively working towards the common goal in mind. 

    There are many benefits to having a collaborative culture in the workplace, it leads to increased innovation, improved communication, and a greater employee satisfaction. Which in turn helps create a more positive and productive work environment as everyone feels happy and valued.  

    The key features of a collaborative culture consists of: transparency and knowledge sharing, a collaborative workplace need to transparent the team need to work together effectively and be clear on how they want to tackles to work on achieving the goal. They promote documents and sharing the best practices so everyone can make the most of their expertise. Next, trust-filled relationships, to promote the relationship building the employees need to get to know each other; with in person meetings and virtual collaborations. What online collaboration tool would be suitable and versatile for everyone to be able to use? 

    Following leadership, with practicing what they preach, they cant tell employees to use something new if they haven’t used it themselves. They also need to build the team into processes by giving room in timeline for others to review projects, equipping their employees with the skills needed to collaborate with training and everyday coaching. They also want to create a culture more collaborative and encourage their team. 

Then with establishing a vision, as this will help everyone understand and clearly communication on the details. 

    With in regards for my future career as a healthcare provider (specifically a Physician Assistant). A collaborative culture or a Interprofessional collaboration is necessary to be able to establish clear roles and responsibilities, being able to communicate effectively, and respecting everyones contributions. We have to solve other peoples health problems, injuries and or diseases, in times of crisis we need a solution based perspective so that way we can find solutions that improve outcomes for our patients. Along with working together and being able to communicate freely without judgement or fear of being mistreated by someone “higher” than us is can lessen the medical errors that can be quickly overlooked at and putting all the burden on just one person. By also collaborating with other healthcare workers as a team it allows for everyone not to over step their boundaries on what they can’t do in the field, although we are supposed to work together their are somethings we aren’t qualified to do and be able to rely on the other profession to step up when they are needed. 

With a final though I leave you with this question, what would motivate you to collaborate with others?