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This is the Kregor Shell Leadership Podcast.

It's great to have you back for another episode of the Kregor Shell Leadership Podcast. If you're new with us, we release a brand new teaching on the first Thursday of every month.

And we're very passionate about investing in leaders because we know that when the leader gets better, everyone gets better.

What we do each month is pretty similar. What I'm going to do is try to answer questions as often as I can. Then we'll do a short teaching. We actually review the teaching.

So we drive the message in even deeper. And then at the end of the episode, we do application questions, which to me is so important because we don't just want to receive information, but we want to apply it to our leadership so we can get better and help our whole organizations improve along the way.

If you have questions, ideas, comments, suggestions of topics you'd like to hear about, email me anytime. You can email me at leadership at life.church.

On the last episode, we talked about the dark side of developers when you're trying to develop others. There's a dark side to it.

Today, I want to talk about practically how do we develop leaders? Let's start with a couple of questions and then we'll get into new content in our teaching.

Carly asked this. Carly said, I struggle with innovation or big picture thinking. I want to contribute to my company and provide value beyond my role.

What are some questions you consider to launch creativity to better your organization? All right, Carly, I love the way you asked that question because here's what you said. You said, what are some questions you consider?

I think that innovative ideas often begin with asking great questions. Let me give you a couple of questions you might want to ask and then a thought to consider.

The first question that I would ask is this, what problem are we going to solve? What problem are we going to solve? Notice I didn't say what problem are we trying to solve, but what problem are we going to solve?

Innovative ideas come out of solving problems. Sometimes people think we're just going to be innovative. In my world, a lot of leaders say we just want to have an innovative idea. Well, innovative ideas are born out of solving problems. So identify clearly the problem you're trying to solve and that can lead to innovative ideas.

Then the second question, Carly, I'd ask is what do we have? So often people ask what do we need or what do we not have? But we're going to start with what we have because what we have, even if it may not be enough, is a catalyst to innovation. So often people think we need more, we need more time, we need more resources.

We need more this or that in order to be innovative, but innovative ideas are often born out of limited resources, not unlimited resources. In the early years of a company, a startup, what you're going to find is people have to be innovative. After a while, once the organization is built, has a lot of cash flow, sometimes they become less innovative because they learn to depend on resources instead of innovative ideas.

And so let's ask what do we have? We're not looking at what we lack, we're looking at what we have and we're going to apply it and try to be innovative. Then whenever we see something that we're working on, you know, how do we do such and such. Sometimes Carly, you can add a zero to the number or percentage.

And this can spark an innovative idea. Let me try to explain it. You might say, how do we grow 10% in revenue or how do we increase the number of people in small groups by 20% or how do we cut costs by 3% those are all fair questions.

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