The importance of celebrating creativity
After you’ve focused on and dedicated yourself to one thing for any length of time, then, no matter how successful it is, you need to celebrate the effort, trials, and tribulations when it ends.
The same is very true of creativity. In fact it's a vital part of the creative process and sadly one often overlooked.
As a leader of creative people, you need to understand the importance of celebrating the end of a project – with genuine thanks, not a token gesture. Celebrating is more than having a good time and it’s more than just bonding. It says, ‘This chapter has finished,’ so that the next one can start cleanly, without shadows or overtones from what went previously. It gives closure and resets the creative switch. It reinforces a sense of community and shows appreciation. It’s morale-boosting, motivating, and uplifting.
So you need to help your creative team get a sense of closure, of accomplishment, and of a job well done.
Celebrating creates closure
It’s crucial to celebrate successes, especially creative ones. Cracking open the bubbly (even figuratively) and taking the time to pat yourself and your team on the back is like giving closure to a major part of your life so you can move on. Otherwise, you’ll feel as if you’ve left it open-ended. You’ll feel like you never really completed it
Celebrating roots community
Remember: creatives love being part of a community and of something larger than themselves. Celebrating helps cement that. It’s not just about hanging out with your peers and patting each other on the back, it’s about a genuine sense of achieving great things as a group, of contributing to and of celebrating the creativity of others as well as yourself.
Celebrating refills the reservoir
But it’s not just at the end of the project that you should celebrate.
Creative energy is like a huge reservoir and as time goes on, there is evaporation and unexplained drainage. If you don’t take care of it, it will eventually run dry. Enormous effort goes into a creative project (or any project for that matter) and at times you need to refill the reservoir. It can be a huge mistake to wait until the end.
Courtesy: Nigel Collin
As a leader of creative people, you need to understand the importance of celebrating the end of a project – with genuine thanks, not a token gesture. Celebrating is more than having a good time and it’s more than just bonding. It says, ‘This chapter has finished,’ so that the next one can start cleanly, without shadows or overtones from what went previously. It gives closure and resets the creative switch. It reinforces a sense of community and shows appreciation. It’s morale-boosting, motivating, and uplifting.
So you need to help your creative team get a sense of closure, of accomplishment, and of a job well done.
Celebrating creates closure
It’s crucial to celebrate successes, especially creative ones. Cracking open the bubbly (even figuratively) and taking the time to pat yourself and your team on the back is like giving closure to a major part of your life so you can move on. Otherwise, you’ll feel as if you’ve left it open-ended. You’ll feel like you never really completed it
Celebrating roots community
Remember: creatives love being part of a community and of something larger than themselves. Celebrating helps cement that. It’s not just about hanging out with your peers and patting each other on the back, it’s about a genuine sense of achieving great things as a group, of contributing to and of celebrating the creativity of others as well as yourself.
Celebrating refills the reservoir
But it’s not just at the end of the project that you should celebrate.
Creative energy is like a huge reservoir and as time goes on, there is evaporation and unexplained drainage. If you don’t take care of it, it will eventually run dry. Enormous effort goes into a creative project (or any project for that matter) and at times you need to refill the reservoir. It can be a huge mistake to wait until the end.
Courtesy: Nigel Collin
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