How to break down silos in higher education with Dr. Beronda Montgomery | Michael Horowitz posted on the topic

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Too often higher education works in silos. Departments, teams, and leaders operating in isolation exasperates inefficiencies and cuts off innovation. In the latest episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Beronda Montgomery hits the nail on the head: breaking down silos starts with leaders creating spaces where people can build real relationships and collaborate effectively. It’s our job to set our teams up for success.

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Often when we're thinking about getting people to break out of silos, we just say you've got to work together without doing the work to make sure that they have the relationships that are founded in trust and respect that allow them to function together. And so that led me to think that as a leader, one of the things that would be most important for me to think about was how to get people to build relationships on a regular basis before you know they're needed. And we know at some point staff and faculty are going to have to work together, so we need to be asking how they're building relationships if we want to. Breakdown silos and you have multiple units. How are the leaders of those units building relationships so unintentionally? You can also break out of silos simply through paying attention to building and cultivating relationships.

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