Welcome to Episode 7 of Dolly in My Pocket, where we dive into one of the most overlooked elements of effective collaboration: how we think together.

We often enter meetings with agendas, pre-reading, the right people in the room… but there’s almost never an agreed approach to how we should be thinking and communicating in that space.

In this episode, I introduce two essential modes of thinking:

• Divergent Thinking – expansive, open, idea-generating
• Convergent Thinking – narrowing, critical, decision-making

We explore:

• What goes wrong when teams mix the two without clarity
• How to introduce "thinking objectives" into your meetings
• Why this approach increases both creativity and efficiency
• How personality types naturally lean towards one mode — and how to flex between them

If you’ve ever felt frustrated in meetings where ideas get shut down too fast - or where nothing ever gets decided - this is the tool you didn’t know you needed.