Convos (Blog)
Applied creativity and inventive thinking for regular people in everyday life.
Stretch for Novelty
If you were to measure your team’s Bonding & Bridging Quotient (not a thing, I just made it up), where would you score? High on bonding? Low on bridging? Go ahead, take a minute and check in with yourself.
Bridge to Different
Ok, so we’ve been discussing how creative teams need two conditions work well collaboratively: bonding and bridging. On paper, bonding seems simple enough: get the team on the same page. But things are never as simple as they sound. Yesterday we tackled bonding. Today, we jump to bridging (no, wait… don’t jump).
Group Work? Yay!
I love working in groups and with groups. Seriously. I find people fascinating. I love how each member brings a different perspective to the work or problem at hand. When I work with teams as a facilitator, one thing I look for is their capacity for bonding and bridging. Huh? Let me explain.