Supporting cross functional collaboration

Delivering change within large organisations, and across wider society, means bringing groups of people together to work collaboratively. It could be creating a project team from people across diverse business functions (finance, HR, IT and Operations) within a company, or setting up a multi-agency group to manage a neighbourhood crime reduction scheme. The situations may be very different but the issues are the same. People come with their own objectives and motivations – sometimes as representatives of particular stakeholders or interest groups – and they have to find common purpose, agree joint processes and find ways of behaving together that support the collaborative effort but don’t compromise their own position to too large an extent.

We work with such groups to help them deal with the questions of divided loyalties and we work through the natural stages of collaborative group engagement so they can deliver joint results, fast.

We bring expertise in the human dynamics of these cross-functional or cross-organisational situations, and we facilitate, we coach, but most of all we help groups jointly define their own ways of working, so that they can deliver results and build a shared reputation for the future.

If you would like us to contact you about how Socia could help your business, get in touch.