Collaboration in the workplace is an often-spoken about topic, but how do you know if your team is truly collaborating to the best of their abilities?
Whether your team works together in an office or remotely, success lies in collaboration.
Great teamwork produces better problem-solving skills, adaptability, open communication and participation, skill-sharing, goal alignment, engagement, and the big one, trust.
Committed to helping build the next generation of leaders, KOKO Matrix founder Kate Osborne has spent the past 20 years developing a series of roadmaps to build better collaborative techniques within organisations.
“Having owned small businesses in the past, the need for collaboration became instilled with me very early on in my career,” she said.
Through her experience as a share owner within Flight Centre and a platinum franchise in the world’s number one business company, collaboration has always been the key to Kate’s results.
Seeing the need for businesses to build better two-way techniques between employees in order to grow and scale, Ms Osborne developed the KOKO Matrix as a collaborative framework with the best coaches and consultants with one aim: to help winners win in business.
The KOKO Matrix focuses on the following 10 steps to collaboration:
- Master your personal self-image and success principles by understanding your target audience
- Wisdom = no psychological stress
- Know thyself (environment, identity, values, beliefs, skills, behaviour)
- Loyalty trumps skills
- Learn how to become ore to have more
- Audit my success principles
- Implement directorships
- Master your wow quotient
- KOKO Matrix team experts
- Master your influence potential
Ms Osborne teaches these 10 keys using games. Teams participate in workshop sessions to learn the skills to be better people, and this has a knock-on effect in the home.
Many consultants focus on one area of expertise without considering the big picture and looking at the sequence of building results for the long term.
“KOKO matrix addresses the elephant in the room by having the team cooperate and communicate back to the leaders what they believe is the highest priority the leaders should consider,” Ms Osborne said.
“This way, the vision forward can be focused on and the team can do the thinking.”
During the COVID-19 crisis, many organisations were forced to reconsider the ways in which they cooperated.
During this time, KOKO Matrix was a much relied upon framework to provide context and structure to businesses that had to respond quickly and lead through a pandemic.
“My goal is to produce healthy and enlightened millionaires who can raise up the next generation of compassionate leaders, and that all begins with learning how to best collaborate with others,” Ms Osborne said.
If you or your organisation would like to learn more about the KOKO Matrix framework, you contact Ms Osborne here.