"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The Creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

-Carl Jung

Let's start with the fact that most leaders help their employees produce greater results. It is the creative leader who has employees that generate ideas, create these ideas and produce them as breakthrough results. These creative leaders hire people who are creative and innovative. They do not hire people just to fill a vacancy. This is because their organization is that of being creative and innovative with these types of results.

Building a creative and innovative organization, leaders look to see who will generate and create business results that will help the company thrive beyond survival mode. Shifting from a traditional way of doing business to a non-traditional way requires leaders to do things differently overall. A creative organization will require a culture that is open to new ideas and insight, and where people are encouraged and rewarded for providing novel and groundbreaking ideas.

Every company is different and has different levels of innovation. Organizational leaders have wanted to be creative and innovative for some time and in most respects don't know how or where to start. All CEOs would love to have people at every level who voice their ideas and take the initiative to implement those ideas. However, there are few people who have the confidence or drive to do so.

"Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change."

-Barbara Januszkiewicz

In come introverts, those individuals you would not expect who spend more time and thought reflecting and thinking about ideas. In today's corporate boardrooms, creative introverts might be completely overlooked and go unnoticed. Leaders need to tout all of their employees. Introverts have been found to generate greater ideas for creativity and innovation than most extroverts.

Introverts who are creative and innovative typically are known as "Ambiverts". These individuals are able to interact well with extrovert. Essentially, an ambivert is someone who has a personality that is in between an introvert and extrovert. They can interact longer with extroverts without recharging these batteries after short periods of time as introverts do in general.

Creative introverts typically observe their surroundings for anything and everything, as well as question "Why" things are the way they are, and they listen to what is said about things. This helps introverts draw their own conclusion about things. On top of this, introverts do their homework by researching things they think about and want to know about. These findings help introverts think before talking about the things they want to say.

Besides, introverts ask thought-provoking questions that help generate ideas for the specific topic or problem of the moment. As an ambivert, these introverted individuals are able to express their ideas without judgments or criticisms. This is what helps them be courageous enough to have the self-confidence to be creatively confident in working with a team of people who work very well generating and creating ideas for solving the problems, challenges and difficulties they are assigned to work on together.

"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."

-Gary Ryan Blair

Welcome introverts/ambiverts into your workplace for being on your team to generate and create solutions you need to move your organization's needs going forward.