In any business with a large number of employees divided into specific teams, keeping the entire company on the same page and working efficiently is a large task. Here are five ways to incorporate both technology and business practices to cut down on inefficiency and redundancy while increasing innovation and productivity.

  • Manage the Message

Making sure team members know the company goals and the overall goals for their projects helps to ensure everyone stays on track. This includes addressing any issues or rumors that come up; it’s important to ensure employees are working on facts and not on rumors spread around the water cooler.

  • Make Sure Teams are Aware of the Bigger Picture

Keeping teams in the dark is not a helpful strategy. By allowing employees to understand why they’re doing the work that they’re doing and how it fits into the bigger picture, you’re able to leverage their various points of view and allow them to help you see and avoid pitfalls that may only occur to people with a specific specialty or ownership.

  • Keep Teams in the Loop for Related Projects

By providing teams with access to data and information about other projects related to their own, you’re giving them a better idea of how their work will be used and integrated. This gives employees a valuable sense of ownership and an idea of how their own contributions made the end goal possible. This helps to develop trust and pride in their work, leading to better employee retention and satisfaction. This in turn leads to lower turnover and higher productivity across the board.

  • Make Sure Data is Readily Available Across All Teams

By making data available to your teams from across the entire company, you’re sharing the information they need to ensure they’ll stay engaged and have access to the information they need if they want to take initiative and research an issue that may be causing a roadblock for either them or someone else. Trusting employees with access to this information creates a culture that can pivot more quickly and spot both problems and solutions before they get out of control.

  • Keep Metrics Front and Center

When you need to have an important conversation with your team, start with the numbers. Share ways that they’re contributing in concrete terms, with sales figures and completion percentages for projects. Talk about what the current goal is in terms of percent growth, or project completion dates. If you’re having a hard conversation about a goal they have not met, break it down in ways that are easy to understand and also to correct or take action on. If they’re 14 days behind deadline, set a new goal of completing the task in 14 more days, or 7. Moving goals according to the metrics gives them a new goal to work toward instead of ruminating on how they failed at their last initiative.

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