Importance and Value of Cross-Pollination in the Workplace
Importance and Value of Cross-Pollination in the Workplace

To build a high-performing team, we need to find creative ways to cross-pollinate in our business organizations. Cross-pollination can be an essential consideration for aspiring entrepreneurs in new ventures and business leaders for transformation.

In this article, my aim is to highlight the value proposition and the importance of cross-pollination for high-performance teams in new ventures and transforming business environments.

I’d like to share a simple example which helped transform a competitive, rigid, and difficult culture to a pleasant learning environment.

Cross-pollination is a metaphor taken from botany. The literal meaning of it is the transfer of pollen from plant flowers with different DNA which enable the creation of new types of plants carrying different attributes.

Cross-pollination is a powerful metaphor to understand the importance of diversity to create fusion in the workplace. Fusion is an enhanced form of collaboration.

Fusion refers to joining different things with different attributes or functions together to co-create or re-create a single new entity or form. Fusion relates to concepts such as integrating, blending, merging, amalgamating, and bonding. These terms are compelling norms for enabling inclusiveness and creating a diverse work culture in business organizations.

The metaphor of cross-pollination refers to sharing and interchanging of ideas, thoughts, information, and tacit knowledge for the enrichment of team capabilities.

One of the critical benefits of cross-pollination in the workplace is to maintain continuous learning. I shared my experience of continuous learning in a story overviewing prominent adult learning theories. I Simplified Prominent Adult Learning Theories For You.

Here is my cross-pollination story for your enjoyment.

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['Dr Mehmet Yildiz']
['Writing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Culture', 'Lifestyle']