![]() ![]() Keep in mind that celebration is an experience and, in the workplace, it is most effective when shared with colleagues. Change and growth are promoted through positive emotions more than through disciplined practice. Celebrating small wins stimulates dopamine release in the brain, a feel-good chemical that reinforces the learning experience and strengthens our sense of connection to those we work with. Habit formation is not, as conventional wisdom claims, a matter of 21 days of consistent practice. Fogg, explains the link between emotions and habits. So why wouldn’t we celebrate the early victories, no matter how small? Leading behavioral scientist, B.J. It can be discouraging and require painful perseverance. Progress is hard won early in a challenge (the launch point on the S Curve). Start with these four strategies: Celebrate early and small. Nothing could be further from the truth.įortunately, it’s easy to integrate celebration into your life and organization. It’s time for a new challenge.Įventually we do have to move on to a new challenge but it’s important to remember that celebration is itself an important milestone on the S Curve, whether it’s an individual’s, a team’s, or an entire organization’s S Curve.Īs I said, most organizations do not seem to have a celebration strategy, and individuals also have an “on-to-the-next” mindset, as though it is contrary to productivity and efficiency to relish, even briefly, reaching our objectives. The top of the S can be a danger zone of boredom and stagnation. Eventually, however, our growth slows as we approach mastery. Many projects may come to successful completion during this time. As expertise and momentum build, we tip into a sweet spot of competence, a phase of rapidly accelerating progress and productivity. Small, achievable goals and appropriate metrics help us see momentum and experience early victories. Growth is slow, sometimes hard to discern, but it is happening. Resources and expertise may be in short supply. At the base of the S we are on a launch point where we encounter fruitful struggle. When I speak of celebration, I don’t mean inebriated partying, but rather commemorative events that encompass complex emotions including solemnity and poignancy, as well as pleasure and joy in the journey.Įvery initiative - or growth journey - we undertake, whether personal or professional, can be modeled by an S Curve of Learning. This is unfortunate because, as I explain in my new book, Smart Growth, celebration is an important opportunity to cement the lessons learned on the path to achievement, and to strengthen the relationships between people that make future achievement more plausible. Even the guest of honor may only do a fly-by.Īt Disruption Advisors we have found that most of us don’t have a good plan to celebrate accomplishments, and the lack of celebration has only become more pronounced and consequential after two years of pandemic isolation. ![]() Grab a plate of goodies to eat, alone, at your desk. It’s usually a drop-by-between-meetings party. Take, for example, office retirement and birthday parties, complete with balloons, pastries, and the requisite crudité platter. In fact, we seem to turn play into a form of work, one at which we are sadly less competent. As adults, we are often much better at work than we are at play. ![]()
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