Hey welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who

multiply value to others. I'm Mark Cole and today I'm excited to talk about creating a

climate for creative thinking. Whenever we're faced with new problems or challenges, we've never

navigated them before and they seem audacious, they seem impossible. See what we need, we need to

leverage our most creative thinkers. But creativity can't just be turned on with the flip of a switch.

In other words, to harness creativity you have to create a climate in which creativity can thrive.

So today, John Maxwell is going to share with us seven tips on how you can promote a climate for

creative thinking. For this creative thinking to not only be encouraged but it to begin to shape

your team and shape your organization. After John's lesson, my co-host Tracy Marl and I will talk

about some of the ways that we can promote creativity and how it has helped us navigate unique obstacles

and foster new ideas here at Maxwell Leadership. If you would like to download our bonus resource for

this lesson, it's a free fill in the blank worksheet and in a company's John's lesson, you can find

that at MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash creative. Also, if you prefer to watch the video on this

episode, you can do that at MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube. Now here we go. Let's get creative.

Here is John Maxwell.

If you are a growing organization, your challenges are going to get bigger and better. Let's say you

have a new challenge in your organization. It's just something you've never faced before. This calls

for a creative team. What you've got to do is when you face something you've never faced before,

you've got to get the best creative people in the room and say, we've never faced this before.

How do we face it? You don't pull the whole team in. So you have to make a team. You look out

and say, who are the creative people? And the creative people get to come to the room and guess what?

The non-creative people get to stay outside. Now we're not picking on the non-creative people.

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