Dr. Amy Climer teaches teams to be creative and innovative.
(And yes, in case you were wondering, creativity is absolutely something you can learn! What do you think my Creative Sandbox Way™ Guideposts are, but tools for enhancing creativity!)
Big surprise (not!) that I wanted to bring Amy on the show. She is all about deliberate creativity. In fact, she has her own podcast, called The Deliberate Creative, all about leading innovation in business teams.
Amy is a speaker, trainer, and coach in creativity, innovation, and team development. Through her company Climer Consulting she teaches research-based practices, tools, and techniques teams can use to innovate on demand.
Early in our conversation, Amy shared the 3 Elements of Creative Teams:
- Team purpose – to understand what the purpose is of that team.
- Strong team dynamics – communication and trust each other, and engage in creative abrasion.
- Team process – understand and use a creative process. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Creative Problem Solving, Design Thinking or anything else, as long as they use one!
Then she went on to walk through the 4 stages of Creative Problem Solving Process (Clarify, Ideate, Develop, and Implement), using her Climer Cards as a case study, and she explained the difference between divergent and convergent thinking.
There’s a lot more juice in there. Have a listen and let me know what part you resonate with the most.
Quotes from Our Conversation
From the Creative Problem Solving Institute: “Creativity is novelty that is valuable.”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen; they’re cheap – they’re a dime a dozen. It’s what’re you going to do with those ideas?”
About Amy
Amy holds a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University and a Master’s degree in Outdoor Education from the University of New Hampshire. She is trained or certified in Creative Problem Solving, Immunity to Change, and the FourSight Thinking System. She developed the Deliberate Creative™ Teams Scale to help teams understand how to increase their creativity.
Amy is the host of The Deliberate Creative™, a podcast and blog designed to teach others how to facilitate innovation in teams. She is the designer of Climer Cards, a creativity and teambuilding tool used by thousands to deepen team conversations and generate ideas. In 2016, she won the Karl Rhonke Creativity Award from the Association for Experiential Education.
Learn more about Amy and her work at climerconsulting.com.
Something Cool
From Amy:
From Melissa:
Superpowerless Movie
My best friend’s husband stars as the protagonist, and my best friend is his wife in this coming-of-middle-age story about a superhero who’s lost his superpowers. (And the dining room of my parents’ home — the house where I grew up, with art that I made on the walls — makes an appearance as well, as the wife’s parents’ house!)
Honestly, I didn’t expect to like this film as much as I did, but I loved it. Thought-provoking. Heart-wrenching, because it deals with the loss of power that we all feel as we age. Redemptive.
Watch Superpowerless on Amazon (affiliate link)
Watch Superpowerless on YouTube
Watch Superpowerless on Google Play
Enjoy!
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Want a creative kick start?
Check out my book!
What would change for you if you could totally revel in the joy of creating? You CAN, with The Creative Sandbox Way!
You’ll learn:
- Melissa’s 10 fool-proof guideposts that have helped thousands get joyfully creating.
- 5 reasons why creative play is good for you, AND for the world (it’s neuroscience, baby!)
- Why “I’m not creative” is always a lie, and how to bust it.
- How to turn creative blocks into friends.
AND you’ll get creating right in the book itself.
“It’s one part field guide, one part creative practice—and I loved it. The Creative Sandbox Way is an adventure packaged as a book.”
~Chris Guillebeau
NYT best-selling author of The Happiness of Pursuit and The $100 Startup
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