How to Create & Lead Innovative Teams with Amy Climer
The Growing your Team Podcast: Episode 258
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Often, entrepreneurs regard creativity as a skill reserved for artists. However, that is far from the truth. Being creative in your business can mean coming up with new ideas and following your own path instead of feeling stuck to the typical method of building a business in your industry. Knowing how to be deliberately creative and use insightful problem-solving skills can take your organization to the next level.
Dr. Amy Climer joins the Growing Your Team podcast to share her expertise in teaching teams and organizations how to increase their creativity so they can maximize innovation. Through her model and assessment scale, she can identify what teams need so businesses can succeed.
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In this Episode You’ll Hear:
- How to be creative in your business
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What the creative process look like in productive teams
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What roles leaders play in innovation
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Why defining a purpose can lead to higher creativity among teams
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What changes have occurred in organizations that become more creative
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The first steps business owners can take to make their company more creative
About Amy Climer:
Dr. Amy Climer teaches teams to be creative and innovative. She is a speaker, trainer, and consultant in creativity, innovation, and team development. She uses research-based strategies, tools, and techniques to teach teams how to innovate on demand.
Amy holds a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. Her research led to the Deliberate Creative Team Scale, designed to measure the three critical dimensions of team creativity which she explains in her new book Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results. Amy is a TEDx speaker and emcee and the host of The Deliberate Creative™ Podcast.
She is the designer of Climer Cards, a creativity and teambuilding tool used by thousands to deepen conversations and generate ideas. Amy is trained or certified in Creative Problem Solving, Immunity to Change, and the FourSight Thinking System. In 2016, she won the Karl Rhonke Creativity Award from the Association for Experiential Education. You can learn more about Amy and her work at climerconsulting.com.
How to Connect with Amy Climer:
Climer Consulting (Amy’s main website): climerconsulting.com
Deliberate Creative Teams Book: deliberatecreativeteams.com
Book listing on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WD4lMR
Climer Cards: climercards.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climerconsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyclimer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyclimer/
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/amyclimer.bsky.social
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyclimer
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Amy just released a new book, Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results
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