Personal Accountability

Definition: A measure of the capacity to be answerable for personal actions.

Leaders who are personally accountable take responsibility for their processes, decisions, actions and results. Tomorrow’s leaders must cultivate personal accountability as a cultural value to effectively manage a growing geographically diverse workforce. If you desire long-term success in a leadership role, demonstrating personal accountability is essential. In this section, you will discover the most effective and respected ways to be more personally accountable. To develop this competency you must own the consequences of your choices, deliver the agreed-to results, and help others do the same.

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Personal Accountability Is Where a Leader Starts the Journey

• 13 min

Dale and Ron talk today about Personal Accountability, which is a leader's capacity to be responsible for his or her personal actions. Ron Price, co-author of The Complete Leader, leads us through the facets of Personal Accountability,

Personal Accountability: Driving Expectations

In this short video, Choice Works founder and TCL Faculty Member Steve Morris talks about Personal Accountability as a leader. He discusses the Triangle of Choice, and how it can help you gain clarity and self-evaluation.

Owning the Impact Your Leadership Choices

In this short video Jill Morris, TCL Faculty Member and founder of ChoiceWorks Inc, speaks to us about Personal Accountability. She shares her insights on how to create a culture of accountability and why personal

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Overcoming Adversity Through Faith

What are the barriers or buoys in your life right now? How you deal with adversity will be instrumental in how you live your life. Al of us have had disappointm

The 4 Natural Leadership Traits of Introverts

By Andy Johnson • 3 min read

It’s a common myth that introverts can’t be great leaders. This is due to the fact that leadership theories have favored extroverts for centuries.

Seeing Our Blind Spots

• 12 min

Today our guest is Whit Mitchell, executive coach and team dynamics specialist with Price Associates, and the author of Working In Sync.

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How to Give and Receive Effective Feedback

By Lisa Nielsen • 4 min read

The most valuable lesson I learned in grad school was not a theory, problem-solving technique, or research method. It was learning how others perceived me.

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The Power of Assessments

By Whit Mitchell • 3 min read

As a CEO, director or manager within your organization, what percent of your time each week, month, quarter, even year do you spend dealing with behavioral issu

EQ in the Workplace: A Positive Antidote to Bad Behavior

By Lisa Aldisert

Most of us have experienced incivility in the workplace. Inappropriate behavior toward coworkers typically stems from a variety of factors:

Recognizing the 5 Symptoms of ‘Shopkeeper Syndrome’

By Emily Soccorsy & Justin Foster

There comes a point in the leadership of every privately-held company when the owner is forced to relinquish a healthy amount of control in order for the compan

TCL Video Series: Personal Accountability with Ron Price

The Complete Leader faculty member Ron Price talks about the importance of personal accountability for leaders.

4 Strategies For Clearly Communicating Expectations

By Steve Morris

We once worked with Jack, a new leader who was having trouble getting his small team of programmers to deliver computer code on time and at the quality he expec