Cheerleading for creativity in business isn't difficult.

Yet, you see people, departments, and organizations where overtly expressing creative appreciation doesn’t happen naturally – or happen at all.

It could be nobody realized it is good business and good manners to appreciate creativity in business. Maybe it never occurred to anyone that celebrating creativity in business inspires creativity in others and leads to more ideas.

If you are a leader (or even if you're not a leader) where creativity in business is under appreciated, how about changing things for the better?

48 Creative Appreciation Ideas to Cultivate Creativity in Business

If this is something people struggle with in your organization, here are 48 creative appreciation ideas you can start using in meetings. Surely you can find at least ONE of these examples to celebrate creativity in business in your workplace.

You could appreciate:

1. Something new
2. Something that was made to seem new
3. A clever idea
4. Someone who tried harder than ever (or even harder than normal)
5. An idea that made you stop and think
6. A new thought that you had never thought previously
7. The volume of ideas someone generated
8. Thinking of another way to do something you have only done one way until now
9. People who collaborated for the first time
10. Someone showing appreciation to others for their creativity
11. A different creative spin on an old idea
12. Something ingenious
13. Something funny
14. Something surprising
15. An idea likely to gain someone important's attention
16. An idea aligning with the company strategy
17. An idea aligning with the objectives it was supposed to support
18. An idea that's not the same old, same old
19. A person who trying for the first time to share a creative idea
20. Someone who went against the status quo in a daring way
21. The person who took a smart creative risk
22. A person looking for affirmation before sharing another idea
23. The way someone communicates a creative idea
24. A story that went along with the idea
25. How someone depicted an idea visually so others could understand it
26. The way an idea fits with an earlier idea
27. The way an idea makes another idea better
28. An idea magnet in your midst
29. Being in a creative environment where creative ideas are appreciated
30. Someone proposing an idea leading to new learnings
31. An idea intended to try something bigger than anyone has tried before
32. Someone willing to take a crack at solving something everyone else fears tackling
33. Someone willing to share the creative inspiration behind the idea
34. Someone who saw an opportunity or challenge differently than everyone else
35. The most junior person in the room contributing ideas
36. The person in the room that always has great ideas
37. The person willing to not judge a creative idea too early when it wasn't fully formed yet
38. Someone coming up with an idea through connecting two things you wouldn't ever think could be connected
39. An idea that seems destined to win a prize
40. How excited someone is about an idea
41. A unique idea
42. The creative idea someone just presented to you
43. The end of a creative journey
44. The person who never receive appreciate for creativity
45. The person not taking the easy way out creatively
46. The first idea shared
47. The last idea shared
48. Every idea in between the first idea and the last idea shared

Just as it only takes one person applauding enthusiastically in a crowd to get everyone else applauding, just one person expressing creative appreciation could make it natural for a department or organization to respond in a similar manner.  - Mike Brown

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