Principles of Effective Creative Collaboration

Earlier this summer we had the pleasure of helping a bunch of kids make some fun videos to raise money for various charities. The kids were part of a program put on by Boston SCORES that is aimed at helping urban youth build essential life skills thorough soccer and team based enrichment programs. Watching these kids dream up ideas and bring them to life was a blast. After reflecting on the project we put together these guiding principles for effective creative collaborations.

The beauty of creating anything is not in the outcome but in the process.
Holding on to the idea of the way you thought things should go instead of embracing happy accidents and new insights will suck the life out of your project and dismantle the heart and essence of what you intended to do in the first place.
Time doesn’t set limits, your mind does.
Don’t limit your ideation process because of certain restrictions. Think big and pare back later. Your pool of big ideas may have helpful insights and adjacent concepts that you wouldn’t have considered if you were ideating within specific parameters.
Originality starts with trusting yourself.
In order to empower others you must first empower yourself. This happens through self reflection, experience, openness, listening, good intentions, commitment, and taking action.

Principles of Effective Creative Collaboration

The beauty of creating anything is not in the outcome but in the process.

Holding on to the idea of the way you thought things should go instead of embracing happy accidents and new insights will suck the life out of your project and dismantle the heart and essence of what you intended to do in the first place.

Time doesn’t set limits, your mind does.

Don’t limit your ideation process because of certain restrictions. Think big and pare back later. Your pool of big ideas may have helpful insights and adjacent concepts that you wouldn’t have considered if you were ideating within specific parameters.

Originality starts with trusting yourself.

In order to empower others you must first empower yourself. This happens through self reflection, experience, openness, listening, good intentions, commitment, and taking action.

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