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A Modest Confession Inspired by “Million Dollar Consultant” Author Alan Weiss...
The Set Up This will eventually get to a point about Responsibility Redefined… Awake in the middle of the night, I arose for a cup of go-back-to-sleep tea and found Alan Weiss’s newsletter Balancing...
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Applying TeamWisdom: Taking Personal Responsibility Helps the Whole Team
Are you unhappy or frustrated at work? Have you thought this about your team: “I can’t be responsible for the quality of my team’s efforts.” “Getting on a good team is mostly a matter of luck.” “If I’m...
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How Do You Stack Up? The Basic Skills to Lead or Manage Successful Teams
When I ask business leaders and IT professionals about their experience of teamwork effectiveness — and I’ve asked thousands in 20+ years as a consultant and speaker — I get a consistent “so-so”...
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The Mindset of a Leader Requires Taking Responsibility
Who can exhibit leadership? Anyone. Anytime. It’s leadership behavior that’s crucial to teams, not an assigned leader. Leadership is an emergent behavior (i.e., it emerges in a context of need or...
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Leadership Skills: 5 Reasons for Taking Responsibility for Your Team’s...
Are you tired of hearing, and maybe even saying, “I got put on a bad team?” I am. It’s the most common excuse for non-performance I hear from highly skilled professionals. I firmly believe that...
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9 More Reasons for Taking Responsibility for Your Team’s Success
Teamwork should no longer be considered a group skill. It’s an individual skill and a responsibility of everyone in the work place. After already giving you 5 Reasons for Taking Responsibility for Your...
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Jessica Soroky Guest Post 4: How to Take Responsibility at Any Age
Responsibility is found in every aspect of Christopher’s teachings, and The Responsibility Process as well as the Leadership Gift program have been fully integrated into my career and my personal life...
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Jessica Soroky Guest Post #11: Self-Applying Responsibility Isn’t Always Pretty
“When you judge yourself and don’t like what you see, you treat those closest to you like crap.” This isn’t a quote from a celebrity, or one of those profound one-liners on a poster. It came out of the...
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Leadership Skills: The Importance of Taking Responsibility
Do you want to take ownership of your life, your work, and your relationships? Do you want a better life experience? Do you want to be happier or have the power to make changes? Then I welcome you to...
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The Pain of “Choice” – Leadership is a Choice #59
Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. There’s a buzzing in the air mixing comfortably with the unique smell of the ocean just feet away. The choice I’m about to make is a...
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The First Principle of Success
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. For millennia advisors have told us that taking 100 percent personal responsibility is the first principle of success. These advisors...
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Control the Sail, Not the Wind
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. One of my colleagues uses a sign-off at the end of his emails—”Control the sail, not the wind”—which is a great summary for the...
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My Greatest Mirror – Leadership is a Choice #60
Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. It feels like I live at my keyboard and yet I never write anymore. Luckily on this quiet November Sunday I find myself locked on an...
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How Do Problems Trigger The Responsibility Process?
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. You are dressed in your finest business suit for your big presentation to the board. And then it happens, you bump somebody in the...
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Key 1: The Intention to Operate From Responsibility
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. The first key to Responsibility is Intention. Specifically, it is your Intention to operate from the mental state of Responsibility...
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Honing Your Intention—The Winning Key
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. Intention is defined as “the thing that you plan to do or achieve: an aim or purpose.” For example, “I intend to meet with my team...
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Get Pissed or Laugh it Off? – Leadership is a Choice #61
Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. My blood begins to boil raising my body temperature. My palms get clammy as I twist the headphone cord nervously around my finger. I...
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The Responsibility Process Works Only When Self-Applied
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. It is a thousand times easier to see The Responsibility Process at work in others than in ourselves. Remember this. It is one of the...
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This Love Started with Choice – Leadership is a Choice #62
Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. All the Hollywood romantic comedies would leave one to believe that love on that grand of scale is a thing left up to only fate or...
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Every Upset Is an Opportunity to Learn
Excerpted from The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery. Upsets tick us off. It is hard to read “every upset is an opportunity to learn” and think oh joy. So ponder this a little more....
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