Celebrating success

• It is surprising how few managers celebrate success during a lengthy project.
• They simply expect everyone to be as committed as they are.
• Do you relish starting new projects, losing interest long before completion and looking for something new to launch?
• Do others pick up on your boredom and slack off as well?
• If successful implementation is necessary for a decision to be judged as good, then how can you pay as much attention to doing it as to deciding it?
• Implementation is, however, the much harder part.
• To get there with a large team, celebrating success is simply part of a regular review of progress where you highlight what went well in addition to what has not gone so well.
• Are you like most managers in focusing exclusively on what is not going well?
• How de-motivating is it if your team to hears only but bad news all the time?
• It takes nothing more than a simple discipline to remember always to say what has gone well before turning to what isn't.
• Ideally, do this through questions - ask your team members what has gone well for them since you last met. Then turn to what hasn't gone so well and needs fixing.
• Surprisingly, celebrating success can improve your decision making simply because it will help you finish more things that you start.