Desire and Willingness are the essential preconditions for achieving Right-Mindedness and accountability in Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT).
These concepts permeate all RMT methods because it’s impossible to think, behave, and achieve success without a heartfelt desire and genuine willingness to do so.
This connection is formalized in the definition of accountability used in RMT:
Right-Minded accountability is the desire, willingness, and ability to change my mind and behavior in order to effectively respond to difficult situations.
The Choice for Freedom
The Decision-Maker (the Real You) always has the freedom to choose.
This freedom is defined by the desire, willingness, and ability to change one’s principles and values to choose right over wrong-mindedness and accountability over victimization.
At every moment, the Decision-Maker is making one of two choices:
- accountability (the path of self-evolution) or
- victimization (the path of de-evolution).
Although undesirable, we all move back and forth between these states. The life goal is to experience more Right-Mindedness than wrong-mindedness.
Are You a Puppet or the Puppeteer?
To embody this accountability, you must first accept that you are the Decision-Maker—the puppeteer who consciously directs your attitudes and behaviors (the puppets).
This perspective is the source of your desire and willingness to change your response. Taking control leads to a mature way of thinking and questioning. It requires training your mind to choose Right-Mindedness. When a difficult situation occurs, this is achieved by “owning your part” and asking:
How did I create, promote, or allow this difficult situation to happen?
Simply asking this question moves you into a Right-Minded mindset. This conscious choice to act in an accountable way restores your power and transforms your relationships—your personal classrooms—away from becoming battlegrounds. The experience of the accountable person furthers the evolution of the self.
Accountability in Action
The Right Choice Model found in the book How to Apply the Right Choice Model: Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One teaches: Right-Minded accountability is the desire and willingness to change my mind and behavior in order to effectively respond to difficult team situations.
If you share the Right Choice Model with your team and distribute the Right Choice cards to teammates, you will see this definition of “desire and willingness” on the cards.
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