Thank you for coming…
If you are going to get a project off the floor, then you need good people and you need to get them to all come together around a table and discuss your project and then be willing to commit to it. How do you do that? How do you excite folks enough that they will give up their free time to come and work with you and support your vision? That’s the big question.
After having had two (count ’em – two) Production Meetings this week, I just feel very lucky that folks are willing to come out and support shows that I have in development. I wonder what has motivated them to join me on my project or how I got them to say yes when I asked them to join the team. But I’m sure thankful that they are there.
It’s a magical little process and I don’t have any concrete answers, except to say that, if you are passionate about what you want to do, that tends to inspire others to want to join you. Enthusiasm is certainly contagious. I know it was this week. At both of my production meetings the folks involved were more than happy to be there and more than willing to stay and visit and chat either before or after the meeting was concluded. They were having a good time. That was integral. They were happy to be there because they felt valued, important and appreciated. And the enthusiasm was growing – exponentially – by the people involved gaining an appreciation for what will be needed to complete the project. Everyone at the table(s) had an expertise that they knew was valued and necessary.
It’s a good thing when you can meet with talented folks and get them all to contribute to one, major, exciting goal. I wonder if this is how Arthur felt with his Round Table. He was certainly on to something there – wasn’t he? Who will you invite to your table?
