Being transparent with your team has many benefits.

Everyone knows what everyone else is doing, which enables more collaboration between team members. It also enable a sort of social accountability to do quality work because peers can see what you have achieved and how.

But having transparent collaboration throughout your team or organization can also accelerate problem solving. When problems are shared early on with the rest of the team, they can be dealt with thanks to the synergy created by the transparent collaboration.

Effective and transparent team collaboration also enables for better team building. Being honest with each other, and facing problems head on forces teams to coordinate their efforts to achieve higher performances.

When everyone feels that their voice can be heard, it unshackles the fear of rejections, and as a result, fosters innovation and idea generation.

All of the previous benefits, while effective on their own, can tremendously increase your team performance when put together.

Do not underestimate the effects that transparent collaboration can have on your team. Instead, promote it and enable greater productivity.