ABSTRACT
Many career development–related expectations created by the stakeholders directly involved in the project will come to surface during the closing phase. Organizational leaders focused on learning use this phase to consolidate explicit knowledge. Projects are often politically ended before all the activities have really been carried out, leaving behind a negative legacy and a frustrated project team. One of the factors that encourage a project team's engagement and motivation is the search for self-realization. Recognition of project performance, systematically encouraged, improves the culture of continually searching for challenges. Every project is a great individual, collective, and organizational learning opportunity. Individual learning is tacit and is related to knowledge and skills developed by each person. Avoid a situation where individuals with talent and excellent performance and engagement are treated unfairly after the project is completed. For projects, celebrating is a change management milestone that closes one cycle and starts another, even if unconsciously for the organization.
