Supporting Creative People: The Creative Bill of Rights
Supporting Creative People
- What is the relationship between your creativity and the people you serve?
- Do you find that your work environment fosters or inhibits your creativity -- and what do you attribute this experience to?
- How do you think others can be supportive -- or more supportive -- of creative people?
Creative Bill of Rights by Joan Throckmorton
- No creative person shall be denied reasonable access to product, service, market or test information.
- Creative people must understand the "big picture" and how the specific assignment fits in.
- Creative people need time to work productively...to research, ponder, write, design and revise with perspective. They do not work best under pressure. (No one does.)
- All creative people are entitled to working privacy, peace and quiet. (Their work is especially hard on the head.)
- Creative people should be given the opportunity to present and explain their own work.
- Creative work must be respected. It can be critiqued, criticized and discussed, but only the creator should revise, cut, edit, amend or rework.
- Creative people deserve to know - and understand - the results of their work, for better or worse.
- Creative people need on-the-job support, encouragement, reinforcement, stroking. (If you present an assignment with enthusiasm, it will be received with enthusiasm.)
- Creative people deserve internal recognition as well as rewards for good work. (A sincere compliment does wonders.)
- Good pay is even better. (It's hard to overpay a top creative person.) You'll find this out the minute you lose one!
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