Personal Accountability Produces a Powerful Emotional Reward

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Personal accountability produces a powerful emotional reward.  The characteristic of personal accountability is how the person applies personal lessons from past failures that help them to move forward in achieving future success. 

When we begin, a career or change it there is usually a sharp learning curve to get up to speed.  There are people who expect others to provide the means for learning the new skills and practices. When they do not receive the expected help, they tend to be disappointed, begin to complain, become a non-performer, and lower the morale of others around them.  They are looking for others to produce their emotional reward.

However, the person who has determined that he or she is personally accountable for developing the skills needed for the work they are currently doing usually they do just that.  Some people and not others value many personal characteristics, like personal accountability, self- management, goal achievement, etc.  When we value something, we tend to think about it often, the item or concept is in the forefront of our thinking.

Research has shown that people who value thinking about personal accountability are long time achievers, who do not blame others for failures, for not assisting them or providing them with the means for them to be successful.  A recent study of the pictures of first year college students on Facebook who had broad smiles revealed that they were among the people at the top of their class in their senior year. 

The person who values holding him or herself accountable not only receives strong emotional rewards for their efforts they create a positive working environment with others.  People are born with a tendency for thinking about characteristic that is unique to their early environment but often adjust their thinking when they encounter a personal or professional experience that is very important to them; they often begin to rethink what characteristics are more important to them now. 

Personal relationships often call for comprise that can be very difficult to accomplish.  However, when the relationship itself is critically important comprise is made easier when the value of the relationship is realized.  The very same thing takes place in professional relationships. 

When a person is placed in a position because of his or her technical skills, is a good person or for other emotional reasons but they do not demonstrate being personally accountable it DOES NOT mean they can’t learn to value thinking about it. It means they need to be trained to think about and value it for the good it will bring to him or her and their position.  

Today there is an assessment that powerfully determines which of 25 business related characteristics the person currently values thinking about compared to those that are needed for the position.  The assessment becomes a value added coaching tool for the employee and his or her company.

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