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Accountability Partnerships

Accountability Partnerships. Your Path to Taking Committed Action!. Four Components to Your Support Structure. A daily check-in via email with your accountability partner, Monday–Friday, as well as at least one phone conversation weekly.

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Accountability Partnerships

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  1. Accountability Partnerships Your Path to Taking Committed Action!

  2. Four Components to Your Support Structure • A daily check-in via email with your accountability partner, Monday–Friday, as well as at least one phone conversation weekly. • Share your intentions and SMART Goals (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound) with your accountability partner so he/she can better support you. • If you have any measuring tools you use for your business, share your daily results with your partner. If you have specific daily activities or habits that you track, share these with your accountability partner. • If you want help keeping your focus on gratitude, share with your partner at least one thing you are grateful for every day. Even if you had a bad day, you can always find something to be grateful for.

  3. Selection of Partner • Should NOT be someone you are intimately close to, like a spouse. • Someone who will call you on things (hold you accountable) if you are not keeping your commitments to yourself, without being judgmental or punitive in their approach.

  4. Happy-Healthy-Wealthy Game • Looking at these three areas of your life will build in some balance in your life--a very important part of success. • Whole life process, not just about business! • Why strive for creating wealth if we forfeit happiness and health in the process? • Each evening you’ll identify at least ONE happy, healthy, and wealthy intention or goal for the next day, and you’ll report your DONE or NOT DONE for today’s goals/intentions.

  5. Happy Goals • These goals are related to: • Relationships • Hobbies • Family & friends • Free time • Personal growth • Areas of life that bring greater happiness and fulfillment.  • Focus is both on what you are doing and • on who you are being in the process.

  6. Healthy Goals • These goals are related to: • Diet • Exercise • Hydration • Rest and rejuvenation • Stress reduction • Appearance • Supportive mental health choices • Spiritual practices

  7. Wealthy Goals • These goals are related to: • Income generation • Investments / leveraging your money, savings (college education, retirement, etc.) • Leaving a legacy through charitable giving or volunteer work • Overall relationship with money

  8. Daily Email Report SAMPLE SUBJECT: KP 1/7/14 Goals 1/6/14 Report: Happy: Dinner with my friend, Liz - DONEHealthy: Workout with Personal Trainer - DONEWealthy: 2 mentoring calls - DONE, one prospect call – NOT DONE Daily 8 Score:  9/8 (means that I earned 9 points and had a goal of 8) Grateful forthe wonderful trips I had in December to NYC and Vegas. 1/7/14 Goals:Happy: Get a massageHealthy: Treadmill for 45 minutes Wealthy: Half day planning session to finalize 90-day plan for first quarterDaily 8 Goal: 8

  9. Weekly Calls • Have an initial conversation to discuss how you want to structure your relationship and to provide whatever personal and professional information you choose to share with each other. • Have a call at least once a week to talk about what is working, what is not, and how we can support each other. Decide what will best support your partnership. • If one of you does not receive an email, be sure that you email or call to check in and let your partner know that you missed receiving it.

  10. Success Tips • Process will only work if you are consistent and keep it short/simple so it does not take over your life. • If your partner is not consistently participating in this accountability process, get a new partner.

  11. Success Tips • If partner is away on vacation or unable to read what you sent, the power is in writing down and sending your intentions. • Why this is important? • Be clear about goals before start of the day • Much more likely to follow throughwhen you share with someone else

  12. Success Tips • Only works if you are: • 100% honest with yourself and you don't weasel out on your commitments by making excuses about why you did not do something. • Sending accurate reports to your accountability partner. You only cheat yourself when you are not 100% honest in your reporting. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” – Jim Rohn

  13. What NOT to Include • No shaming, blaming, or justifying. • If you did not follow through with your intention, simply write “Not Done” on your email report. Take 100% responsibility for your own life!

  14. Suspend Judgment • Suspend judgment! If your partner cannot suspend judgment, get a different partner. • When someone is judging you, your focus will be on getting angry with them for judging you, rather than on looking inward and deepening the learning about what’s stopping you from keeping your commitments to yourself.

  15. What’s the Difference? • Being in judgment: “What’s wrong with you? Are you getting lazy? You keep telling me that you’re going to follow up with that prospect and you haven’t done it!” (The word “you” is typically used a lot with judgmental comments. This puts the other person on the defense rather than encouraging them to be introspective.) • Holding accountability: “I notice that you’ve been saying that you are going to follow up with that prospect who is on your “chicken list,” and for the last several days you’ve reported that you have not done it. What’s stopping you?” (Use “I” statements to report what you notice. Ask questions to help your partner deepen their learning.)

  16. Intentions / Goals • Write down intentions that are most important to you. In other words, if you do nothing else, you are committing to doing these things. • Do not create a long list of intentions in each category, as that will sabotage your efforts. You may have more than one intention for each category, as long as you keep it realistic. • Typically, you will do more than what you committed to in your email to your partner.

  17. Weekly Check-ins Once a week, ask yourself these questions and share your responses with your partner. This will help you evaluate your activities--including how you are being and not just what you are doing--to see how your habits and behaviors are working for you: • What do I want to start? • What do I want to stop? • What do I want to continue? 

  18. Select an Accountability Partner for 2014 Those who are committed to this process form two groups: Committed to working less than an hour a day on SOC Biz. Committed to working one or more hours a day on SOC Biz.

  19. Partnership Criteria • Suspend judgment • Commit to sending and receiving a brief nightly email report of intentions for tomorrow and report of today (done or not done) • Commit to a weekly phone call

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