Top Five Reasons to Celebrate Business Wins

09.06.10

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How do you celebrate wins in your business?

In our non-stop, 24-7 crazy-busy world, it’s all too easy to simply step over the win and get right back to the business at hand. But if you do this, both you as the CEO and your team are missing out.

OK – you might be thinking, “Yes” I do celebrate wins. How’s it look? What do you do? Is it a quick “congratulations” or “good job” to yourself and your team only to put your head back down and start banging away at the keyboard?

I’ve never forgotten how Caroline, the CEO of a boutique agency that I worked for in NYC, celebrated the agency’s business wins. Around 3:00 pm one Friday afternoon, she got the good news that we had won the piece of business we’d been working ’round the clock for. Caroline walked around the agency sharing the news and then * surprisingly * told us to shut down our computers, because the agency was taking the entire team out for drinks in the neighborhood.

Everyone had the same incredulous reaction, “NOW?” as we looked at our watches. Anyone who has ever worked in an advertising agency can relate to our utter disbelief, because quitting time was never before 7:00 pm, let alone at 3:00 pm in the afternoon!

Yet Caroline’s style of pulling the plug on working and going out to celebrate left a huge impression and me — and it certainly set us all up for a great weekend!

So, here are my top five reasons to celebrate business wins:

  • Celebrating the win serves as a reminder that a good, focused goal works.
  • Celebrating gives an energy boost of motivation to continue delivering outstanding work.
  • Celebrating creates an opportunity to look at the big picture.
  • Celebrating allows you to create deeper relationships with your team by connecting in a way (an perhaps in a venue) that is not just work-related.
  • Celebrating simply makes everyone feel great — especially if the win comes on a Friday and is the launch pad to a great weekend.

What do you want to celebrate in your business? Let me know, because a party is always better when the number of folks start to grow!
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Karen Hodges

Karen Hodges, CPCC, ACC is the Founder & CEO of Adventures to Transformation™. As an ICF and CTI certified personal and business coach, Karen specializes in working with highly motivated women, one-on-one and in groups, helping them to embrace change. Karen believes that by viewing change as an adventure, you can recreate your life and transform it to be even better than before. As a speaker and writer, Karen communicates her expertise about change, reinvention, and navigating transitions as a category expert for The Transition Network, Midchix, Kalon Women and She Takes on the World, as well as being a former contributor to More.com and Vistaprint. Karen is living her adventurous dream in Santa Fe in a cozy home with her husband, daughter, and miniature schnauzer. Specialties: Adventures to Transformation™ Coach, work transitions, life-stage transitions, business and personal coaching, work/life balance

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  • http://www.thewritebloggers.com Terez

    Simply wonderful! I don’t have a team to celebrate what I call my “little victories.” I do have a partner and fellow writer, Jael Strong, with whom I share my victories. One day, the two of us went out for drinks and appetizers to celebrate our business’s exposure and growth and to think of ways to continue growing. The atmosphere was so relaxed that it didn’t feel like work. It was fun.

  • http://www.lifeshinecoaching.com Michelle @ LifeShine

    Yay, I love this! I keep a great quote by Oprah close at hand: “Celebrate more of what you want to see in life.”

    As a Coach for professional women, I do this all the time with my clients – help them slow down and take time to celebrate their wins/accomplishments/successes…before that natural tendency kicks in to want to get moving on to the next big thing.

    As a solo-preneur, I appreciate you asking me what I’d like to celebrate because I’d love to join in your party! I’m celebrating a newly revamped website and a completely updated blog. Whew, it was a LOT of work and it feels good to now share those vehicles with the world.

    Thanks for the fun today and best wishes to you for much continued success…and celebration!

  • http://blog.divabydesign.org Christina Rodriguez – The Diva’s Home

    This is so great! I wish I could have closed down early when I had my daycare. Since I couldn’t, sometimes I would make lunch for everyone. In my new business, I am going to keep this idea in mind. Right now it’s just me! :)
    .-= Christina Rodriguez – The Diva’s Home´s last blog ..Divas Don’t Do This! Taming the Pillow Monster =-.

  • http://www.synthesiscoachingblog.com karen Hodges

    @Terez
    Glad to hear that you and Jael went out to celebrate. Isn’t it amazing what being in an open and relaxed frame of mind can do? I’m sure that energy and the change of venue opened up the creativity for both of you.

    @Michelle
    I’m raising my *proverbial* glass to you. Glad you’ve joined the party…as coaches we can get so focused on our clients that we can forget our own wins. Bravo to you!

    @Christina
    How nice that you took the time to make lunch for everyone! Congrats on starting yet another business. Keep your eye out for a “win”, no matter how small and give me a shout when you do. Thanks for joining the party!

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