The Power of Celebrating & Iterating

Over the past year, I’ve been work­ing a lot on foun­da­tion­al con­tent for my next book.

One of the tools that we’ve built out is a tool called The Growth Play­book. It looks at a busi­ness through the lens of three main engines and sev­en dis­ci­plines of growth. I’ll share more about it at a lat­er time.

Of those sev­en dis­ci­plines, I believe the most impor­tant — to con­tin­ue to grow and improve com­pa­nies — is what we call Cel­e­brate and Iter­ate:

• Tru­ly cel­e­brat­ing all the good things that have hap­pened — where you won, where you made progress or where you did­n’t win but got a lot smarter
• Iter­at­ing to take per­spec­tives and insights to do some­thing bet­ter next time, and mak­ing sure that you improve your macro strat­e­gy, short- to medi­um-term goals or the sys­tems, process­es and tools that affect the way you work, on a dai­ly basis.

Most of us are quite good at iter­at­ing. But when it comes to cel­e­brat­ing, many of us – includ­ing myself – often miss or step over the oppor­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate because we’re so focused on what we need to do next or better.

When it comes to cel­e­brat­ing, most of us have room to improve.

Cel­e­brat­ing helps us to expe­ri­ence the intrin­sic reward of great work and mak­ing things hap­pen. It’s the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with why we do what we do, and to bring the team togeth­er to cel­e­brate everyone’s effort and expe­ri­ence of how we’ve worked and won together.

Lead­ers we enjoy work­ing with have a way of cel­e­brat­ing enough keeps the ener­gy and moti­va­tion alive to act on the iteration.

It’s about find­ing the right balance.

The Chal­lenge

• Do you have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate more or iter­ate more – or both?
• List a cou­ple of spe­cif­ic things you could do to take your lead­er­ship up a notch, in terms of cel­e­brat­ing or iterating.

Addi­tion­al podcasts

• How the Best Team Lead­ers Cre­ate Accountability
• Top­grad­ing: Hire & Keep the Best Talent

Addi­tion­al Blogs

• Cel­e­brat­ing the Suc­cess & Accom­plish­ments of Your People
• Are You Fail­ing to Achieve Your Quar­ter­ly Goals?
• The Val­ue of Failure

Lawrence & Co’s work focus­es on sus­tain­able and enhanced growth for you and your busi­ness. Our diverse and expe­ri­enced group of advi­sors can help your lead­ers and exec­u­tive teams stay com­pet­i­tive through the use of var­i­ous learn­ing tools includ­ing work­shops, webi­na­rs, exec­u­tive retreats, or one-to-one coaching.

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