When departments operate like separate companies, even your best people can't deliver the results you need. The real cost? Duplicated work, finger-pointing, and stalled projects—while your competitors move faster.
Your departments have their goals, metrics, and priorities. But here's what's actually happening:
Misaligned Priorities
Marketing launches campaigns Sales isn't ready to support. Operations changes processes without alerting Customer Success. Everyone's hitting their targets while the organization misses its goals.
Duplicated Efforts
Three teams solve the same problem three different ways because they don't know what the others are doing. Resources get wasted. Deadlines slip. Budgets bloat.
Blame and Frustration
When results suffer, fingers point. "They don't communicate." "They don't understand our challenges." Trust erodes. Good people burn out or leave.
The hidden cost: Your best talent spends more time navigating internal politics than serving customers.
You've tried breaking down silos. Why didn't it stick?
How Transformation Happens: The Outward Mindset Solution
Build Self-Awareness
Teams discover how their inward focus creates the very silos they complain about. When people see their role in the problem, they own their part in the solution.
Develop Accountable People
Using practical tools, teams learn to work toward each other instead of around each other. They identify how their decisions impact other departments and adjust accordingly.
Create Lasting Alignment
We help you embed collaboration into your systems, from how you run meetings to how you measure success—so the change sustains without constant intervention.
SUCCESS STORY: BERKADIA
See what happens when silos dissolve
With an outward mindset lens, the teams were able to account for their impact, uncover ways to offer support, and transform their relationship.
"The Arbinger framework really encouraged collaboration across regions, across divisions within Berkadia, and the breaking down of silos even in our highly competitive sales environment."
—Hilary Provinse, Executive Vice President and Head of Mortgage Banking
Team-building creates temporary behavior changes. We change the underlying mindset that determines how people work together every day, not just during the offsite.
We start where you are. Some clients begin with executive teams; others involve cross-functional groups. We'll recommend the right approach based on your situation.
Most organizations see measurable shifts in collaboration within 90 days. The timeline depends on the depth of siloing and your implementation approach.
Ready to break down the walls?
Leaders across healthcare, government, manufacturing, and professional services trust Arbinger to solve this exact challenge. We've helped thousands of organizations shift from siloed operations to aligned execution.
