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Right Choice Model: Choosing Accountability ✅

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The Right Choice Model is a fundamental teaching aid in Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT).

Its purpose is to help teammates make the conscious choice to adopt THEIR collective Right-Minded attitudes and behaviors that define their team’s thought system and are captured in their Work Agreements.

Inspired by moral and ethical models, the RMT framework is based on the concept of free will:

the individual is 100% responsible for their inward attitude and outward behavior in response to every difficult situation.

Right Choice Model Loops

Two Loops, Two Choices

The Model graphically illustrates the two paths available to the Decision-Maker (the teammate’s internal observer and decider) when a team challenge occurs. Each loop represents a different internal teacher:

  • The Upper Loop (Reason’s Path of Accountability): This is the choice to follow Reason and act as an ally. It is the cycle of successfully addressing problems through accountable, responsible, and Right-Minded behaviors. It involves Accepting, Forgiving, and Adjusting, which leads the team into the Unified Circle of Right-Minded Thinking.
  • The Lower Loop (Ego’s Path of Victimization): This is the choice to follow the Ego and act as an adversary. This ineffective cycle is where teammates become a victim or victimizer, engaging in blame, punishment, and defensiveness. This path guarantees that solutions are not found.

The Accountability Question: The “Loop-Shifter”

The second crucial part of the Model is the Right-Minded question teammates are encouraged to ask themselves, especially when a difficult situation arises:

“What did I do or say to create, promote, or allow this difficult situation to happen?”

This question is a tool to stop the cycle of victimization and initiate a Moment of Reason by promoting self-reflection and accountability. When teammates choose accountability, they band together, move into their Right Mind, and readily find solutions that lead to the creation of effective Work Agreements.

Application and Outcome

Applying the Right Choice Model is central to team improvement:

  1. Commitment: Teammates commit to accept, forgive, and adjust their thoughts and behaviors.
  2. Discussion: The team uses their Right-Minded attitudes to discuss problematic issues and find solutions.
  3. Work Agreements: Solutions are captured in team Work Agreements.
  4. Action: Teammates follow the agreements, demonstrating the acceptance, forgiveness, and adjustment that ultimately helps the team achieve its business goal of 100% customer satisfaction.
How to Apply the Right Choice Model Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One

Action

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About Dan Hogan

In my 40-year team-building career, I facilitated over 500 teams in eight countries. Many of those teams, I worked with for several years. The Right-Minded Teamwork method was created from those successful team building engagements. I am a Certified Master Facilitator. I am currently retired as an active facilitator. I continue to write and consultant.