If trust quietly left one of your collaborations today, how long would it take you to notice?

Trust isn’t missing from the Building Blocks of Collaborative Intelligence. It’s not listed on purpose..

This week’s Thursday Thoughts tackles a question I hear often: “If trust is so essential to collaboration… why isn’t it a Building Block?

”Because trust isn’t the ingredient. It’s the outcome. We don’t lose trust loudly. We lose it in avoidance. In sharp energy. In meetings that feel “off.”

👉 Read here: https://lnkd.in/gkwTX6VV

#ThursdayThoughts #CollaborativeIntelligence #Leadership #Trust #Collaboration

Imposter Complex isn’t just personal. In collaborations, it affects the whole team. People:-Hold back ideas.-Avoid leadership.-Stay quiet when their voice is needed most.This week’s Thursday Thoughts explores how imposter complex shows up inside collaborations and how trust can transform it. To do this justice, I reference the brilliant and wonderful Tanya Geisler, CPCC👉 At the Edge of Not Knowing https://lnkd.in/gFh4JHrNCheck out Tanya Geisler's website here: https://tanyageisler.com/#ThursdayThoughts #Collaboration #Leadership #ImposterSyndrome #CollaborativeIntelligence #impostercomplex

"How am I supposed to act “professional” when everything else is clearly changing?"

Many people feel the tension between business as usual and the deeper transformations happening around us. It can feel like we’re expected to smile, post, perform, and say “I’m good”… even when something inside us knows that’s not the full truth. This week’s Thursday Thoughts explores that dissonance through a Collaborative Intelligence lens:

*Why self-awareness is the starting point

*How breaking life into smaller collaborations can reduce overwhelm

*And how alignment (not apathy) helps us navigate this in-between space

👉 When Professionalism Feels Like Pretending https://lnkd.in/giunkHfb

#ThursdayThoughts #Collaboration #Leadership #Professionalism #CollaborativeIntelligence #FutureOfWork

Most organizations don’t choose their meetings. They default to them.Weekly huddles. Standing project meetings. Meetings to prepare for other meetings. I call this the Meeting Default Problem.... when meetings quietly replace trust, clarity, and momentum.This week’s Thursday Thoughts starts with a question from a project manager who said: “I’m in meetings all Monday. Honestly, they feel like meetings to meet.” If that sounds familiar, this reflection explores:*Why meetings often form around anxiety, not necessity*When the whole group actually needs to be in the room (and when they don’t)*How trust, leadership, and collaboration can reduce meetings—not add moreLink to mentioned 2024 Thursday Thoughts: “Did that Meeting Fill You or Deplete You?” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/did-meeting-fill-you-deplete-gregg-potter-uvxoc/👉 Full email: Meeting Default Problemhttps://lnkd.in/gy9aGJeS#ThursdayThoughts #collaboration #leadership #organizationalculture #meetings #collaborativeintelligence #meetingstomeet

“Collaboration” shows up in a lot of company values.But for many people, it stays there... on the wall, not in the work.This week’s Thursday Thoughts starts with a simple question: Why do some organizations say they value collaboration… but don’t actually practice it?It turns out size isn’t the real issue. Design, intention, and practice are.👉 When Collaboration Is Only a Wordhttps://lnkd.in/geZr-BW5Got a question about collaboration you’re wrestling with? Send it my way. I’m letting your questions shape this year.#Collaboration #Leadership #OrganizationalCulture #ThursdayThoughts #collaborativeintelligence #cq #companyculture #values

How did you learn about the birds and the bees? We all learned about sex in different yet similar ways. In October of 2023, we held a live Salon in Madison, WI called, 'Everything You've wanted to ask a Sex Therapist' with Chantal Fowler. This recording is rough and because it got stuck in between software changes, doesn't have the best editing. We ask you to have grace with it and just take it for what it is... some fun.

Chantal Fowler lives in Cape Town, South Africa, loves to surf, and dances in a burlesque troop (The Rouge Review). She also works in sex therapy and is finishing her PhD in adolescent sexuality from Brown University. She is also the mother of adult twins who she has molded into beautiful humans.

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This event had two comics. If you like them, please go tell them.

Alice Pauser - https://scriptedchaos4u.com/

Megan Diaz Ricks - (Google)

Gregg welcomes Caroline Ouwerkerk to the show this week. As a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths-based coach, Caroline Ouwerkerk (she/her) brings over fifteen years of experience to support mission-driven clients on five continents at a range of leadership and career crossroads.

Caroline runs the Impact Leaders Incubator, a leadership development program and community for women in social impact, and partners with universities and companies to offer interactive workshops on topics including strengths-based leadership, career confidence, and mitigating burnout. She also offers private executive/leadership and career coaching for high achievers seeking more fulfilling work that maximizes their talents while creating space for all of their other priorities.

She holds an AB in History from the University of Chicago, and her Master’s in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. She also has a certificate in Creative Writing from the Graham School and a certificate from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Program for Emerging Leaders and was previously an adjunct professor of leadership at Johns Hopkins University.

• www.talktocaroline.com (website)
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolineouwerkerk/
• Managing for Impact Series (https://www.carolineouwerkerk.com/managers)

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Gregg is a connector and sometimes people call him a friend collector. Well this serves us all well when it comes to collaboration. This week Gregg welcomed Celeste D. Brito to Twenty Minute Collaborations.

Celeste D Brito is a passionate and enthusiastic Facilitator, Mentor and Consultant - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebloomproject/

She is a Board member of the International Association of Facilitators - https://www.iaf-world.org/ and developed her career as an HR and Organizational Development Executive in the corporate world for more than 20 years. She has credentials in Facilitation processes and techniques, assessment tools, and social sciences.

Celeste lives in Almada, Portugal; the sea and the sun are her inspirations.

She believes that the diversity of thinking is central, actionable and integral to all conversations and collaborative approaches - https://mindtime.com/about/

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https://internationalinstituteoncollaboration.com/